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    and ingrains itself in the survivalist genre “given impetus by 9/11” but it also draws inspiration from Westerns. Rick is representative of the ‘Sherriff’ with his dress codes and values. He sports a sheriff hat, hoister and is intent about keeping the law. The series poster emulates the western genre as Rick rides a horse amongst a congestion of cars. Walkers are referred to as herds. Western narratives typically revolve around individualistic battles that mirror a wider society or the cat and mouse

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    Analysis Of Unforgiven

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    Unforgiven is a 1992 Western film which was produced, directed, and starred by Clint Eastwood. The adventure of William Munny, a vicious murderer in the past who has killed innocent women and children, started when The Schofield Kid approached Munny in his farm and asked him if he wanted to help in killing two of the cowboys who slashed one of the prostitutes just because the woman giggled at one of the cowboy’s tiny pecker. However, Little Bill Daggett, the sheriff, just fined the two cowboys with

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    opening of the movie Stagecoach, many popular Western films have followed similar opening scenes containing the stereotypical desert landscape with cowboys heroically riding their horses. Western films, such as the Stagecoach, gained national popularity, making over millions of dollars in sales. Their popularity serves as justification for why these Western ideals affect the nation’s identity and image. Richard Slotkin described this occurrence of Western movies influencing American characteristics

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    of this being Unforgiven. The film’s dark and cynical characters occasionally resemble that of a film noir while its overall narrative structure depicts itself as a classical western style film. While there is an argument to call Unforgiven a film noir, it is hard to deny the idea that the film is mainly a film of the western genre. The basis of this idea, mostly relies on the portrayal of the lead protagonist, and the end of the film. While it would be easy to use setting, lighting, camera angles

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    Theatre, where western films were very popular .Many Hollywood films categorize western movies into the same unimaginative description and role. The plot of the film itself is foreseeable: seven westerners come together to defend a town from morally unethical baron, unsurprisingly become friends along the way, while making sacrifices. As uninteresting as this plot may be, adding diversified characters within the cast made the movie distinct from what many may have seen in western films of yesteryear

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    Title The traditional western hero has so closely synonymized itself with the image of the rugged, horse-riding, cowboy hat wearing, gun shooting white man, that a fearful wife and mother appears entirely antithetical to the very notion of the frontier hero. Yet, Louie L’amour adeptly crafts his western hero out of the very same aforementioned traits though his character Angie in The Gift of Cochise. Angie’s logical, pragmatic, and calculated actions, because of her role as a wife and mother, allow

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    Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior Raising children is something the vast majority of the human race will challenge themselves with at some point. How to raise children is a common issue but nonetheless a sensitive and a conscious one. Should you strictly and authoritatively lead your children the way because you love them? Or should you – with the same reason in mind – give them space to follow their own passion and make their own individual choices. The Wall Street Journal publishes the article

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    was the academy winning Western legend, recognized as one of the best filmmakers of all time, his name was John Ford. He started out his career in film in July 1914 as an assistant, labourman and actor for his brother Francis Ford. It was not until 1917 where he made his debut as a director with the lost film, The Tornado and ended his career in the early 1970s with his last film Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend. During his early years, he was making silent films where Westerns were very popular during

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    film genre; for example MGM was one of the first to produce musicals and romances. By the end of the silent era, many of the main genres were established: the melodrama, the western, the horror film, comedies, and action-adventure

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    Society John Wayne, Masculinity and Family Over the course of his life, John Wayne developed a powerful and one of a kind star persona. John Wayne's persona is highly tied to masculinity, which we see through many of his character roles in his Western films. John Wayne made many movies throughout his long, illustrious career but he is most well-known for his appearances in Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), Rio Bravo (1959), True Grit (1969) and many more. Throughout John Wayne's career,

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