Stagecoach In the movie Stagecoach, directed by John Ford you see a common western star by the name of John Wayne. John Wayne was very popular in western films, and more particularly in films directed by John Ford. In the film John Wayne plays the main character Ringo, who in the film escaped prison in order to exact his revenge on Plummers, the man who murdered Ringo’s family. In the film the stage leaves with eight passengers on board each of whom have their own backstory. Some of these characters include: Doc Josiah Boone, the town drunk, Hatfield who is a gambler, Gatewood a sneaky banker, and Peacock a whiskey drummer. The two female main characters would have to be Lucy Mallory and Dallas. Lucy Mallory is trying to get to her husband who is a part of the …show more content…
She is very eager yet timid through most of the movie, however after finding out that something happened to her husband she freaks out and goes into premature labor, and the doctor is able to successfully sober up and deliver the baby. The other female main character is Dallas, who plays the love interest of Ringo. She is the antithesis of Lucy Mallory as she was banished from the town and is held at a very low standard. She goes on to try and convince Ringo to escape, so he will not be taken back to jail. However, their plans suddenly change as they see signs of Apaches coming, they try to get out of there as quick as possible, and actually come up with a very unique idea to get across the river. In their quest to get to Lordsburg they come across a dry river bed in which the Apaches catch up and open fire and arrows onto the stage. Peacock and Buck are wounded while Hartfield is killed. Just as it looks like all hope is lost, the cavalry comes to the rescue and is able to fight off the Apaches, and save the passengers aboard the stage. As they safely arrive to Lordsburg, the very fat Gatewood is arrested for embezzlement. Curley then grants Ringo his freedom so that he can avenge his
In the book the main characters are Jay Berry, Daisy, Rowdy, Grandpa, and the monkeys. The secondary characters are Ma, Pa, Grandma, and Sally Goodin. The beginning started with Jay telling about how his family moved to the Cherokee hills. The book ended with Jay giving his money to Daisy to fix her leg. In the end he ended up getting his pony and twenty-two as well. Money was a problem for Daisy up until the end of the book. There
They had four hundred fast horses and about eighty riders, but there were about four hundred other employees. The other employees worked as station keepers,stock tenders, and route superintendents. A station keeper is a person who people who worked around the home stations. They mainly used four types of horses such as, pintos, mustangs, thoroughbreds, and morgan horses. The Pony Express was dangerous, encounters with rowdy indians and outlaws were common and not a surprise ."A party of fifteen Indians jumped me. . ." said Buffalo Bill Cody. Buffalo Bill Cody was one of the most famous Pony Express, because he put on his famous Wild West Shows.
Numerous scenes depict this second stage of storming – Gatewood constantly fight with Curly for leadership in deciding whether or not to return to Tonto as Gatewood insists the Stagecoach forges on while Curly calls for a democratic vote. Furthermore, Hatfield and Doc Boone find themselves in conflict when they argue about the wording of the Civil War – whether it was the War of Southern Confederacy or the War of Rebellion. This seemingly meaningless conflict evolves into one in which Hatfield criticizes Doc Boone’s alcoholism and Boone hints at Hatfield’s criminal background, recalling that “gentleman did not shoot other people.” Despite these conflicts, as Tuckman mentions, certain group members continue to be silent throughout the conflicts – Ms. Mallory, is almost entirely silent throughout the entire journey with the exceptions when she asks where her spouse, a captain in the military, is. At the stage of the film, it seems as if the passengers are still “feeling each other” out, gauging their personalities and tendencies. Tuckman mentions that that group members must move from a “testing
The Big Lebowski was a screenplay written by Joel and Ethan Coen. It is a comedy that is screen written and a movie that shows how life can be so unexpected. Lebowski known as “The Dude” has had his life terrorized and even his belongings being terrorized which first started off with his rug then went on to other belongings in his house being broken into and being destroyed and along with his car. All The Dude wanted was his rug back "it brought everything together" as he would say within the movie. The Dude went through a whole lot of trouble for this to happen. The people who are terrorizing The Dude have the wrong person, they thought he was a millionaire whose wife owed them money. The Dude is unemployed, broke and lives In an apartment complex and who drinks excessively and smokes blunts while only worrying about bowling. The topic being addressed in this paper will conclude the difference between bums vs achievers. How is The dude much different from Jeffrey Lebowski when the dude does the majority of the work through the novel?. The Dude and Lebowski might be different in certain ways but, there are no differences from each other.
In 1939, Ford cast Wayne as the Ringo Kid in the adventure Stagecoach, a brilliant Western of modest scale but tremendous power, and the actor finally showed what he could do. Wayne nearly stole a picture filled with Oscar-caliber performances, and his career was made. He starred in most of Ford's subsequent major films, whether Westerns (Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande, The Searchers ); war pictures (They Were Expendable); or serious dramas (The Quiet Man). He also starred in numerous movies for other directors, including several extremely popular World War II thrillers (Flying Tigers, Back to Bataan, Fighting Seabees, Sands of Iwo Jima); costume action films (Reap the Wild Wind, Wake of the Red Witch); and Westerns (Red River). His box-office popularity rose steadily through the 1940s, and by the beginning of the 1950s he'd also begun producing movies through his company Wayne-Fellowes, later Batjac, in association with his sons. Most of these films were extremely successful, and included such titles as Angel and the Badman, Island in the Sky , The High and the Mighty ( my personal favorite), and Hondo. The 1958 Western Rio Bravo, directed by Howard Hawks, proved so popular that it was remade by Hawks and Wayne twice, once as El Dorado and later as Rio Lobo.
Lettie’s lover, Benoit, is an Osage man who is married to Grace’s crippled sister, Sara Blanket. But he is more like a brother and caretaker to her than he is a husband. Michael Horse is the fire keeper of the Osage tribe, but he also writes in his spare time. He is an old man who observes everything around him and writes it down in his journal. Stace Red Hawk is a Sioux Indian who works for the FBI.
The Stagecoach, a critically acclaimed film, which follows the adventures of a group of unlikely and unfortunate passengers escaping from the brutality of Geronimo’s Apache warriors, established the precedent of the classic Western movie, containing crucial Western archetypical elements such as Ringo the Kid that has hardly changed today. Furthermore, Stagecoach espoused social issues of the time by including passengers of varied social status and standing and emphasizing on such interactions that cross the rigidly defined and impermeable social divides at the time. The iconic movie was produced during the transition between silent films and films with spoken dialogue, and the remnants of the former film style are conspicuous throughout the film. Although explicit and spoken plot was crucial for the storyline, non-verbal communication offered implicit cues to attentive audience members. Dallas was coerced onto the stagecoach, shamed and disgraced as a prostitute, which immediately put her underneath the likes of Ms. Mallory.
In 1939 John Ford gave Wayne another break by casting him as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach. The roll threw Wayne into the top ranks of the movie stars and finally, in the 1940’s, his legend began to take shape. Relieved from military duty due to physical problems, Wayne became the film industry’s hard-core soilder, but had that compassionate side. Movies released during the war, such as Flying Tigers (1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944) and Back to Bataan (1945) left Wayne with some pretty big shoes to fill.
In 1961, the US Freedom Rides was quite a significant event that is still remembered by many Americans and African-Americans today. It was the time when racial discrimination and segregation had existed and has had an immense effect and impact on African-Americans. Yet, it had ended after a lot of hard work protesting, campaigning in different areas of America and thanks to some key events that had also helped along with these including the Birmingham Campaign and Martin Luther King Jr’s activism. This event of the United States however is a lot similar to events that had occurred in Australia at the time and is considered to be an inspiration to Aboriginal activism and protest in Australia. The event that took place for the Aboriginal activism
John Ford’s Stagecoach (United Artists) has been hailed as the official Western Classic. Released in 1939 after the lull in production of Westerns caused by the advent of sound and The Great Depression during the mid 1930’s, it is considered one of the key films that helped revived the A-Western in the 1940’s prior to WWII. Stagecoach has the classic Western recipe. The main staple of that recipe in Stagecoach were authentically dressed cowboys and town folk, the dress determined who or what they were; transportation in the form of horses, wagons, or stagecoaches; an authentic location, Monument Valley for example; and varying clashes some between Indians and settlers and some between individuals and communities… This recipe had been used many times over by the time Stagecoach is filmed in 1939.
In 1962, director of the Congress of Racial Equality, James Farmer and fellow CORE leader Bayard Rustin, resurrected an earlier strategy from the late 1940s that called for blacks to ride segregated trains and buses during interstate travel in the upper South. The earlier protest on wheels had failed miserably when the riders were arrested in North Carolina, convicted, and given month-long sentences doing chain-gang labor. This time, the protesters hoped that they would receive greater support from the federal government and the Justice Department.
They witness a massacre and try to find a way out of the city before they are found and killed by the mob. The only job they can find is an all girl band so the two dress up as a woman. In addition to hiding, they both have their own. problems. Then there are the problems.