Thursday, November 20, 2008

Stagecoach (1939)

I really enjoyed this film, and I'm not normally a fan of Westerns.

However, I didn't see where John Ford was sympathetic towards the Indians in this film. They were immediately shot and killed as "savages" in this film like all the others. Plus, when the wife of one of the men who was an Indian came in, the man [I think it was the bank man]instantly yelled savage and freaked out. I don't find that sympathetic at all... I did like that she was the one who went and told the Indians where the men were staying at.

Also, I thought it was a nice contrast with most of the film being shot in a stagecoach, since it was about the stagecoach represented progression through the West of what was to come, roads and railroad tracks.

The frontier represents freedom; whereas, civilization is structured with laws. Dallas and Ringo could not function in a structured society, since they both were outlaws. They had to go even farther from structure and farther south to Mexico.

OHHHHHH The man who played Buck was the voice of Friar Tuck in the Robin Hood cartoon!! That was awesome!!!!!!

I don't really have anything else to say...

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