Western views

Mel Brooks’ satirical western comedy Blazing Saddles is the movie that changes a genre, by heavily making fun of it. From the start there is that initial good guy and bad guy mentality, with the hero ultimately saving the day. A wealthy white man wants to grab a spot of land to build his railroad through, however there is a town in the way. He sets forth to taking the town until two unlikely heroes come to the rescue and wittingly save the day. Ultimately throughout the plot there are hilarious commentaries

We as human beings consciously and unconsciously take variables from our own lives to come up with our own definition of a worldview. We make life decisions based on our morals and values that we have put into place because of our views. These views are not always necessarily permanent but always evolving. As we grow older, wiser, and have more life experiences one often re-evaluates the hard questions that helped their worldview evolve. During the seventeenth century, there were two essentially

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

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

The typical western genre consists of characteristics that embody masculinity. From a genre perspective, Brokeback Mountain is a great contrast to the typical western film. While the film challenges the western genre it also challenges the ‘American’ view of masculinity. Throughout the film, the Ennis and Jack face a conflict with themselves and a perceived notion of masculinity. The two protagonists attempt to reassert their perception of manhood when it is questioned. The resolve of the conflict

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 his views of society

Unforgiven, High Noon High noon, an American Western movie debuted in 1952. The movie has been awarded an Oscar Award in the best pictures category. The theme of the movie is on how the western side of United States was captured. The setting of the movie portrays a mixture of good and bad people in a settlement where they have different perspectives of life. The bad people use inhuman ways to achieve their goals while good people, especially those living in the town are law abiding

that have a specific meaning. Outside of the genre or independently these symbols hold little significance. The Western genre is an obvious. The surface appearance of the film signals the film’s genre. For the Western these include can horses, pistols, holsters, wide-brimmed hats, spurs, saloons, sheriffs, and stagecoaches. This iconography situates the film for the audience. The western landscape is likely the most important and recognizable symbol of the genre. Rather than shooting within a studio

Ever since the early 20th century, there had been several attempts and experimentation in creating a new genre of cinema known as the Western. The first well-known Western movie The Great Train Robbery (1903), while not necessarily being the first ever Western, it is by both film historians and theorists definitely considered the pinnacle of the genre, that got it all started and that would be the first step in creating others similar to it, but also very different. Because it was still an unknown

Darling Clementine In the Western genre, according to Jim Kitses, anyone is able to understand it as a genre articulating a cultural mythology (Belton 249). In this case, the American psyche. It has been said that the Western represents the myth of the frontier, which meant the unsettled land at the edge of the frontier where land was unlimited and free for any man to claim. This notion dates back to the late nineteenth-century. Accordingly, Hollywood produced more Western films than any other genre