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    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

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    by John Ford, and Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, are films based off of the real Wyatt Earp. However, both films depict two different Wyatt Earps, as in My Darling Clementine depicts a hero, as Wyatt is good to the people of the West. In My Darling Clementine, Wyatt Earp shows up into town with his men; we know nothing about his past. Everyone seems to like him as he is nice to people and serves as a protector from certain bad men such as the Clantons. In Wyatt Earp however, as the audience

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    Doc Holiday Doc Holliday or John Henry Holliday was born on August 14. Doc was more prominently known for riding with Wyatt Earp, being a skillful gambler and the deadliest man with a revolver in the west. What is less known was that he was a dentist earlier in life which is how he inherited the “Doc” in his name from his friends. He was born in Griffin Georgia to a prominent military family. Docs mother passed away to Tuberculosis when he was only 15 which impacted him greatly, being very close

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    (141) he uttered, and it did. I will now describe Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp; a lawman, hunter, gambler, saloon keeper, miner, and boxing referee. Wyatt’s appearance was always professional. He would wear pressed black suits and pants, with a vest, and underneath the suit, a white dress shirt was visible. On his head, a top hat was occasionally seen. When he was younger, around twenty years of age, facial hair was a constant for Earp. It started as a small moustache, and grew into a wavy horizontal pattern

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    John Henry Holiday, presently recognized as Doc, was born on August 14, 1851 in Griffin. Doc’s parents were Alice Jane McKey and Henry Burroughs Holiday. They offered a high-quality education for Doc, although his main concern was the vast outdoors. He was more interested in horseback riding and fishing. In 1861, his father Henry Burroughs Holliday acknowledged a presidential engagement from Davis Jefferson in order to serve like a Quartermaster within 27th Ga. Infantry. After Manassas Battle, he

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    and high tempered, she worked at the business of being a madam and a prostitute because she liked it. They meet while Doc was dealing cards in John Shanssey’s saloon. It was also there in the saloon where Doc meets his soon to be good friend Wyatt Earp. He was another person who

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    sophisticated portrait of a man coming from the East. John Ford explicitly shows such a contrast between the East and the West in one of his Western productions, “My Darling Clementine”. Henry Fonda, one of the leading roles, acts as marshal Wyatt Earp in Tombstone to find out who murdered his brother. Victor Mature plays the

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    While Doc was still in Fort Griffin with Kate, he found himself in an altercation with a man named Ed Bailey. Bailey was purposefully agitating Holliday during a card game, which would end with Bailey pulling a gun on Holliday. Doc, in self defense (according to some), pulled a knife and slashed Bailey across the stomach, cause blood the spill and Bailey to fall across the table (This altercation can be seen in the movie Tombstone, about 12 minutes into the movie). Knowing it was of good reason,

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    Tombstone “Tombstone” the movie was based on the historical events that actually took place in Tombstone, Arizona. A ex sheriff, Wyatt Earp came into town to reunite with his two brothers and a old friend, Doc Holliday. They planned on getting rich and settling down in Tombstone, Arizona to retire. Their plans however were interfered with by a group of outlaws called the cowboys, who were causing problems for the people in Tombstone. The 3 brothers ended up becoming sheriffs and planned to deal

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    At the beginning of the book, in 1920, Wyatt Earp is working as a private detective in Los Angeles. While he is resting on his porch with his dog, Earpy, “Big Nose” Kate comes up and says that she needs Wyatt’s help. Kate says she will pay Wyatt $500 if he goes to Brooklyn to get her son back on track. Kate was married to Doc Holliday, Wyatt’s best friend, which means that her son is also Doc Holliday’s son. Because the son is Doc’s son, Wyatt agrees. A day later, Wyatt heads out to New York to help

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