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The UK is not a place one thinks of producing westerns. In fact there have only ever been two made entirely on the island that once ruled the world. Blood Moon is one of those, not sure what the other was-sign of poor journalism. On the other hand, wearwolves is something we do associate the English with---Wearwolves of London anyone's?--- This is where Blood Moon falls, a genre mashup for John Wayne/John Landis fan in all of us. Like many westerns, the flick starts out with a stranger (veteran

Super Meat Boy Meets Ninja Gaiden Meets Portal If you’re already familiar with the N+ series, then rest assured, it’s more of the same perfected gameplay you love to hate. If you’re new to the series, then welcome to hell. But it’s the kind of hell that feels like heaven when you finally conquer a level that just whooped you 30 times in a row. This is not going to end well.This is not going to end well. The gameplay in N++ is deceptively simple. The goal is to press a switch with your ninja and

Western began in the late eighteen hundreds when a movie was about 10 minutes long. They started getting popular in Hollywood from the early 20th century to the 1960s. John Ford landmark western adventure Stagecoach became one of the biggest hits in 1939. Many of the most acclaimed westerns were released during the 1952-1956. Westerns themes have evolved overtime beginning in the silent era, the western captured movie-goers’ imaginations. Quick drawing, white hat good guys battled the mustachioed

John Ford’s The Searchers plays with the western genre primarily through its straddling of the line between the classical and contemporary western through John Wayne's duality of the hero and anti hero among additional more complex plot elements. The film opens with the typical opening of the frontier hero mode common in classic western with John Wayne’s character appearing out of nature to join the other charters in the story shortly before the conflict of the film is introduced. The conflict of

has become more important to Hollywood in a culture-driven industry fueled by formulas. As a film genre nothing was so adaptable towards American sensibilities as the Western. Set in the nineteenth century where a large section of the United States was still undiscovered; it is known as the Wild West. The central plot of a western film is the classic goal of maintaining law and order on the frontier in an action, adventure story. Directors would maintain this melodramatic formula by using archetypal

In the western Unforgiven staring Clint Eastwood we embark the journey of a legendary gunslinger coming out of retirement in order to provide for the one’s he loves and holds dears to his heart, his kids. Throughout the film the idea of killing and the justification of doing so is continuously questioned in the minds of each of our three gunslingers. As in all westerns the use of violence is displayed to solve and extinguish any conflicts that arise. Violence is incorporated within this film in order

societal views of masculinity in the Western genre. Brokeback Mountain depicts two cowboys involved in a homosexual relationship, focusing on coupling the opposing themes of homosexuality and masculinity. On the other hand, Blood Meridian introduces the reader to the Kid, who courageously establishes his own masculinity outside of the Judge’s hypermasculine and traditional Western philosophy. Brokeback Mountain and Blood Meridian are both classified as Westerns. The Western is a beloved American genre that

In the movie Unforgiven, it displays the rocky journey of William Munny with where he starts and finishes as the killer of women and children. During his marriage and a bit after the death of his wife, William Munny went through a rebirth and let go of his memories of the past in order to be not only a good husband but a father to his two children. His journey starts when the Schofield kid asks William to join him in killing two men that cut up a woman’s face for the reward of $500 each; between

Directed by Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight is not a film normally considered a member of the western genre by any means. The western genre is meant to captivate a viewer with action on the frontier of the ol’ west. From bank robberies to mining towns wanted for land, the western brought many new film plots and characteristics to the big screen. The main appeal of westerns started dying off in the late 1900s but that has not stopped modern day film makers from producing them. Films such as

states, “because Western communities lack established legal and social institutions to restrain and punish criminal, anti-social, deviant behavior” (LP 51), outlaws and lawmen became the special groups of the American frontier. In the end of 19th century, with the expansion of the west territory, due to “White migration to Indian Territory”(LP 48) and high economic profits of the western states (LP 49), the growth of population and economy induced western lawlessness problem. Western Communities lacked