“The Searchers” Response The Searchers has often been regarded as film director John Ford’s most influential film. The film is considered by many critics to be a true American masterpiece because of its ability to capture the beauty and impending danger of the frontier. This movie tells of an emotional journey of a man‚ Ethan Edwards‚ who avenges the Comanche Indian chief responsible for the deaths of his family and the kidnapping of his two nieces. The most important theme found in the film is the
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of a western genre and the context are determined by the time in which the film is being produced. The time in which they were produced determine how social construction‚ gender ideas‚ values and attitudes‚ the setting and SWAT codes are demonstrated. I have chosen to present this speech by looking at the film studied in class‚ and a film of my choice and how the difference in context has changed in the tie of these two films. Changes and developments in the context can be recognized and analyzed
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Boy to Man: The Searchers Through the Eyes of Martin Pawley The narrative structure of John Ford’s The Searchers is centered primarily around the actions and knowledge of men. Throughout the movie‚ men are the figures of action‚ they are out scouring the land for lost loved ones while the women stay home and wait with hope. In The Searchers‚ just as with any search‚ the limiting factor involved is knowledge. Ethan‚ the main character‚ begins the movie as the leader of the searchers. His assumed role
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Contradicting Ideologies in The Searchers While The Searchers can be viewed from a critical standpoint as a ‘revisionist’ Western in terms of its portrayal of Native Americans‚ certain aspects of the film contradict this overall message. One such aspect is the character Look‚ who serves a role both as comic relief and as commentary on racist depictions of Native Americans. The Searchers does a superb job of highlighting the contorted representation of Indians in the Western genre‚ but Director
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The Searchers The scene in The Searchers being analyzed is the event that creates the plot of the entire film. Ethan returns from a ploy by the Comanche to get the men away the homestead‚ while the Comanche burn the homestead‚ kill the remaining men and women and abduct the girls Debbie and Lucy. In The Searchers this passage plays an important role in the development of the film‚ it provides psychological characterization of the main characters through cinematography‚ the editing style of the
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There have been many genres of film that are included in American film history; one of which is the Western. In the mid 1900’s Western films were at their peak and Saturday afternoons would be spent watching cowboys and Indians battle until the end while watching comfortably from a movie theatre. Knowing this‚ it’s not hard to understand why film makers later on would base plots and characters off of these mystifying films. The Searchers‚ made in 1956 by John Ford‚ was a movie that followed the journey
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"The Searchers" versus All the Pretty Horses The American west is one of our most revered eras‚ romanticized by numerous forms of media in the United States. Mediums of movies‚ books and television shows glorify the fiction of the old west. John Ford’s film "The Searchers" is an ideal example of this romanticized American West. Typically‚ an American Western story confines the women to home duties‚ having no original ideas or thoughts of their own‚ while the status of the hero is elevated by
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Screening Report on The Searchers John Ford did an excellent job at utilizing different framing techniques in his movie The Searchers. Ford used different framing techniques depending on the mood and location of the particular shot. During the opening scene of the movie‚ Ethan rides across the dessert with mountains in the background. Ford uses natural surroundings extensively during the movie. During transitional scenes when the actors are moving from one place to another‚ the shot is usually
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June Knight March 14‚ 2013 The Searchers Film‚ 1-5p The Searchers: The Making of An American Legend Overview In 1836‚ in East Texas‚ a war group of Comanche has kidnapped‚ a nine-year-old girl named Cynthia Ann Parker. The Indian tribe took her in and raised her as if she was a natural part of their tribe. She was welcomed by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Ethan Edwards‚ (John Wayne) an embittered veteran‚ who returns home to Texas after the Civil War. Ethan
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All the Pretty Horses/The Searchers The ideal American West or in other words Hollywood’s West is described as being a life of adventure‚ one with beautiful scenery‚ and a world made up of brave‚ rough‚ intuitive‚ fearless cowboys. Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses challenges and at times romanticizes the description of the ideal American West‚ whereas‚ John Ford’s film "The Searchers" romanticizes the description of the ideal American West. This is shown through their description of
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