Sergio Leone

My Darling Clementine (1946) is a film that follows the classic semantics and syntactics of an original western film through the common traits, attitudes, characters, shots and locations that attribute to the building blocks of the Western genre. My Darling Clementine also includes syntactic elements that incorporate the genres fundamental grammar and the structure into which building blocks are placed. This can be compared and contrasted with the film Unforgiven which represents the revisionist

Clint Eastwood’s, Unforgiven, represents a “new” type of Western that defies the formula previously used to create traditional Western films. Unlike Shane, a film with a clear-cut threat to the community, endangering all homesteaders, a lack of defense, creating an unfair advantage to the threat imposed, and a true hero, one who saves the day and must willingly return to where he came from, Unforgiven is a Western that is told through a different formula. Eastwood tackles this revisionist piece and

The 1992 American western film Unforgiven, is directed and produced by the leading role in the film, Clint Eastwood. The film exemplifies many plays upon notions of ideology. In order for the film to be valid, the viewers must examine and understand the differences and similarities between the historical and cultural aspects of the American West. Hollywood portrays the West to be adventurous, action-packed, mysterious, and the opportunity for freedom and profit. Unforgiven is a film that portrays

Unfriended Starring: Shelley Hennig, Renee Olstead, Matthew Bohrer, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki Unexpectedly unnerving, but unlikely to be remembered with the same fondness as the films that so clearly inspired it Unfriended is a horror film played out in real time, solely through social media on a teenagers laptop screen. Sounding like the worst sort of millennial-bait, it’s undoubtedly an eye-roll inducing premise, especially after the volume of lazy found footage films we’ve been inundated with

The film ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night’, director Ana Lily Amirpour, is a mixture of genres such as the Spaghetti Western, the teenage romance, and the vampire genre. The clash of genres in this film brings out the idea of hybridity and duality, with the sounds and cinematography creating a sense of ambiguity, or the ‘in-between’. The underlying mix brings out a sense of horror for the overall feel of the film as it leaves audiences with a sense of fear and realisation that not everything is

and Leone’s Fistful of Dollars Compared. Student: I-Fu Chen Class: CTCS 502 Professor: Priya Jaikumar Due: Oct 8th, 2014 Films: Yojimba, Akira Kurasawa (dir.) 1961, Japan (Viewed Sept 17, 2014) Fistful of Dollars, Serge Leone (dir.) 1964, Italy. (Viewed Oct 1, 2014) This essay is based on films of the same story, told in different ways, with emphasis, themes, meaning and interpretation shaped or shaded by the situation of the storyteller; the cinematic mise-en-scene. Based

Power and sound. Those are the two aspects of this film that stuck out to me while I was watching Unforgiven. Clint Eastwood did a very good job of producing this movie. I saw power in the Sheriff while he was attacking Bill. I saw great use of sound while Ned was getting whipped, and also the music towards the end. Clint Eastwood did a great job showing the Sheriff’s power. He did this several times throughout the movie. However, one time I really noticed it, was when he was attacking Bill. The

Samantha Hoppe – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Good versus evil, the primary plot to numerous literary genres, is concretely displayed in every Western text. Whether it is cowboys versus Indians, the law versus outlaws, or cattlemen versus cattle rustlers, the audience always sides with one side, and it is always the side of “good”. The Western genre is carefully crafted to influence the audience in siding with a certain character. Authors and directors develop distinct yet similar characters to

Unforgiven is a western movie but can also be considered as a dark and haunting film which people considered Clint Eastwood's finest hour. This movie was set in the 1880s. After two cowboys scar a prostitute a reward is offered by her fellow whores for the death of the two men. Soon Munny is on the hunt and is later joined by Ned and the young, blind 'Schofield Kid'. The stage is set for what is perhaps the most gritty, realistic and best of Eastwood's westerns. This movie is one of the best western

Advising the female lead to disregard the onslaught of male harassment, Jason Robards quote covers many facets dealing with the overarching theme of the mythical West throughout Sergio Leone’s film, Once Upon a Time in the West, 1969. Through in depth analysis of our course materials, I attempt to highlight the films usage and portrayal of sound and music, gender roles, and incompatible desires of the main characters in order to demonstrate the importance of these themes and how they relate the stereotypical