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I’m writing my paper over my favorite western actor. My favorite western actor is Robert Duvall. I have always been very fascinated with Duvall. He has that toughness about him, I think it takes to be a star in a western movie. Duvall was born January 5. 1932, in San Diego. In the winter of 1955, Duvall began to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York City under director Sanford Meisner. While he was there, he roomed with Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, and James Caan. Between

The film I chose is “High Plains Drifter” directed by Clint Eastwood. The film talks about a stranger who arrives at a small town where he is informed by the sheriff of the return/comeback of three gun-toting men, now in jail for having killed the previous sheriff and he proposes him to stay and defend the citizens as he is very good at shooting. The stranger first refuses but after being guaranteed that he could have asked whatever he wanted in return, he accepts. His way of approaching goes immediately

True Grit steps outside of traditional Western boundaries, setting it apart from most films categorized in the same fashion. Where the typical movie located “out west” falls short with only a dominate primary plot (i.e. man v. man, man v. nature, etc…), True Grit brilliantly excels in developing underlying subplots that promote complex and sophisticated themes, such as the rather unforeseen, unique, and heartwarming relationship development between a teenage girl and an older man. The storyline breaks

After reading the article, “Authorship and Genre” written by Kitses, it explores why the western genre in American cinema became so popular. Western films explored places that have been explored, which made the audience feel like they are exploring this vast new land. In western films, you can see a slow growth of social forms such as how someone should react after saying something. Additionally, western films tend to display the struggle of good and evil, such a wanted man saving the town from the

The wild west, guns a’ blazing, train robberies, and bank robberies occurring, was this what this western frontier really looked like? Hollywood's films of the late 1960’s like True Grit, would have the American people believe that the Western frontier was full of outlaws and crime. In reality, it consisted of something entirely different, from what the movies of the 1960’s had it viewers believe. History was changed, in a sense re-written to entice the audience, of their own vision of the “wild

Tombstone reflection The movie Tombstone reflect the society of the old west, in term of “wild west” what makes it so wild? Lawless was the most obvious characteristic during that period of time, that’s why people use guns to self-defending, to maintain certain properties and authorities with their guns, but sometimes gun might cause some bloody and violent conflict among people. During that “wild brutal’’ period of time, the gun seems appeared as a necessity for people to protect himself as

side come from either movie titles or movie descriptions from IMDB. I examined the top 500 most popular western movie titles and the summaries of the top 200 most popular western movie summaries. The most prominent phrase on the mythic side is the words, “the wild west.” This was tied for the most common 3-word phrase in the top 200 most popular western movie summaries on IMDB (“Genre: Western”).

In the opening scene of the film, three nameless men enter a desolate town on horseback as a haggard dog darts across the road. The trio, wearing long overcoats and black cowboy hats, storm into the saloon in hopes of killing Tuco, the “Ugly” character in the story. Five shots are fired before Tuco, dressed in white and light grey clothes with a white napkin around his neck and lacking a hat, bursts through the saloon window with pistol and whiskey in hand. He then mounts a black horse and gallops

For my at home movie I watched Hang em’ High directed by Ted Post. It is considered a spaghetti western that was made in America. In comparison to the film we watched in class, High Noon directed by Fred Zinnemann. These two westerns had many similarities and differences. From differences in how the movie was actually shot, to the similarity of how both of the main characters are loners, these two movies connect all over on many different levels. High Noon was the story of a very brave man, Will

Stagecoach: The Revolutionary Western John Ford built a standard that many future directors would follow with his classic 1939 film “Stagecoach”. Although there were a plethora of western films made before 1939, the film “Stagecoach” revolutionized the western genre by elevating the genre from a “B” film into a more serious genre. The film challenged not only western stereotypes but also class divisions in society. Utilizing specific aspects of mise-en-scène and cinematography, John Ford displays