Dominik Assassination Justified

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My thesis is about villains, and how filmmakers control what we think is evil.
I have come up with my thesis from the film ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’. In this film, Andrew Dominik, (the maker of the film), has shown how filmmakers can control what we think of a person. Dominik persuades the audience during the film that the antagonist is Robert Ford. He does this by the way he portrays the characters of both Jesse James and Robert Ford.

Andrew Dominik decided who was evil and who was good. The title leads us to believe that Jesse James is the protagonist, even before we start to watch the film. Again using the title; ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.' Dominik states that Robert Ford is the coward that will assassinate …show more content…

Dominik never wanted us to see the good side of him after he did something bad. When he assassinated Jesse he lied to Jesse’s wife, Zee. He then immediately ran to the post to call for the reward. Dominik never showed him regretting his action. Dominik justified that Robert was proud of it by the way he showed him acting out his assassination to an audience, over and over again.

Dominik showed how all the way through the film Robert was a coward starting with the title. But also at the end of the film after Robert Ford assassinated Jesse James. Dominik added the scene of Robert in the bar drunk, there is a man singing a song about Jesse James. The song portraying Jesse being like a robin hood, a folk hero who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, and the man who shot him was considered a coward. Robert then shoots the man, that was singing the song.
The Ridley Scott Encyclopaedia by Laurence Raw discusses how by killing Jesse James Robert thought he would become famous and bigger than the great outlaw, Jesse James. But in reality, Jesse James even when killed would always be the better man, which Robert finally realized in this

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