Codes and Conventions
What are the codes and conventions of Cowboys and Aliens
The film cowboys and aliens is an adaptation of a comic book of the same name made in the 1990s in the UK. The film is a throwback to the classic cowboys and westerns and general sci-fi films of a classic area. The film is a mixture of two of the most popular genres ever seen in the film industry and includes all of the features you would expect to find in a classic sci-fi or western. In the film Indians also get a brief outing towards the end and they have a set of there own codes and conventions.
About the Film.
The lead actor in the film is Daniel Craig who plays Jake Lonergan, who as the movie opens wakes up alone in the desert with a mysterious injury and we later discover that he is a master criminal is wanted all across America for stealing gold. When he rides into the nearby town of Absolution, he immediately makes his presence felt by sorting out the local cattle ranch owners’ son Percy Dolarhyde (Paul Dano), whose father is Woodrow (Harrison Ford) the local cattle ranch owner. When strange lights appear in the sky and some of the townsfolk are sucked into hovering vehicles overhead, Lonergan Woodrow join forces to track down the interstellar outlaws and bring their people home. Eventually they're joined in their quest by some local Apache tribesmen .They're also helped by a beautiful woman named Ella Swenson, played by Olivia Wilde who is mysterious throughout the film and later saves all of their lives by blowing up the rocket to ensure that they could never return.
Codes and Conventions
For the vast majority of the film it is a western with only the last half an hour being a sci-fi when they fight the aliens off. The costumes that they have used for the characters are of what you would expect to see in a western film. They are dressed in working man’s clothes with torn trousers and mud and dirt stained tops and belts to have their guns and ropes onto. Cowboys are also often famous for
The film cowboys and aliens is an adaptation of a comic book of the same name made in the 1990s in the UK. The film is a throwback to the classic cowboys and westerns and general sci-fi films of a classic area. The film is a mixture of two of the most popular genres ever seen in the film industry and includes all of the features you would expect to find in a classic sci-fi or western. In the film Indians also get a brief outing towards the end and they have a set of there own codes and conventions.
About the Film.
The lead actor in the film is Daniel Craig who plays Jake Lonergan, who as the movie opens wakes up alone in the desert with a mysterious injury and we later discover that he is a master criminal is wanted all across America for stealing gold. When he rides into the nearby town of Absolution, he immediately makes his presence felt by sorting out the local cattle ranch owners’ son Percy Dolarhyde (Paul Dano), whose father is Woodrow (Harrison Ford) the local cattle ranch owner. When strange lights appear in the sky and some of the townsfolk are sucked into hovering vehicles overhead, Lonergan Woodrow join forces to track down the interstellar outlaws and bring their people home. Eventually they're joined in their quest by some local Apache tribesmen .They're also helped by a beautiful woman named Ella Swenson, played by Olivia Wilde who is mysterious throughout the film and later saves all of their lives by blowing up the rocket to ensure that they could never return.
Codes and Conventions
For the vast majority of the film it is a western with only the last half an hour being a sci-fi when they fight the aliens off. The costumes that they have used for the characters are of what you would expect to see in a western film. They are dressed in working man’s clothes with torn trousers and mud and dirt stained tops and belts to have their guns and ropes onto. Cowboys are also often famous for