High Noon Film Analysis

Throughout our lives, it seems when we have no one else to help us, our most challenging problems occur leaving ourselves to use our wit and emotion to persevere. People can have test or a big game where we have teachers and coaches to help us prepare and succeed. However, in the movie, High Noon, a Marshall named Will Kane is faced with a challenge of an arriving Frank Miller looking to kill. In the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game", a hunger named Rainsford is deserted on a island after he fell off his yacht, and he would soon find out a sociopath with the unique taste for hunting down humans was out for him. With the two characters in these suspense-building products somewhat trapped we can take out many lessons and ideas from the action packed movie and short story. The movie, High Noon, and the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game, are alike and at the same time very different.

In the movie, the old west town of Hadyville, New Mexico and the tropical Ship-Trap island in the short story are very similar. "Metric goes down to the desk...other

belongings" (Foreman 297). The town of Hadyville is surrounded by vast desert, which makes it actually isolated, and the main character, Will Kane, is also isolated in a social aspect because no one will help him against Frank Miller and his gang. This becomes so extreme for his part that even Judge Metrick is fleeing town for safety, which represents how even the law is abandoning him. "With a violent effort...Death Swamp and its quicksand" (Connell 229). Like Hadyville, Ship-Trap island is completely isolated, and this leads to Rainsford fighting for his life all by himself just like Will Kane. It is the isolation from both places where all the danger takes place that make the setting very similar.
On the other hand, High Noon and "The Most Dangerous Game" have different themes.

"Street...more and more" (Foreman 332). After Will Kane with the help of Amy, his wife, take don Frank Miller and his gang, it is finally safe for people to come out. So many people that could have helped him started pouring out of there homes surrounding the gun fight, and it leads Will Kane to believe that a ton of people could have helped. This quote shows how the theme in the movie is that friends will abandoned you. "It has become too easy...bore than perfection" (Connell 220). The sociopath General Zarroff has been hunting the most dangerous and exotic animals in the world, but because he was so good a it, the hunt no longer seemed to give him any excitement. This lead to him having the idea of hunting humans, which lead to the hunting of Rainsford. The theme for the short story unlike High Noon is that perfection is

boring.
Even though the main characters in each plot are in life-threatening danger, how they act is very different. "Deliberately takes of...to dust" (Foreman 332). Kane is tired of cleaning up the town's mess for his whole life, and it is a perfect example of it when he takes out Frank Miller all by himself. How he handles it is by throwing his star down into the dust showing his disgust for Hadyville. This shows how he uses most of his decision by emotion. There even is a scene of him crying a short time before Miller arrives, which is odd for the hero that saves the day. "I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve" (Connell 230). This quote shows how much of a logical thinker Rainsford is when faced with danger and dealing with situations unlike Kane who is very prideful and emotional. Another situation where he was logical is when he fell of his yacht and didn't swim after the boat to save energy.
The suspenseful movie, High Noon, and the thrilling story, "The Most Dangerous Game" have a ton of similar aspects as well as many different ones. The setting creates the pretense of isolation for the two main characters conflicts, which influences throughput the plot. Also, the theme that friends will abandon you in High Noon is different than the theme that perfection is boring in "The Most Dangerous Game." Another thing that is different is between the main characters because Will Kane is emotional and Rainsford is logical. The movie and book have so many great ideas that we can use in a tight situation.