Film Analysis of Wyatt Earp

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Film Analysis of “Wyatt Earp” I would like to talk to you about the movie “Wyatt Earp” written by Jimmy Anderson and directed and produced by Lawrence Kaspan. It was released in 1994 by Warner Brothers Production Company. I want to try to show how film can show the intricate details and depth of personal relationships between two characters by the use of photography, lighting, mise en scene, movement, dialogue and background sound. As “Wyatt Earp” is a lengthy movie I have decided to go in depth about the way it portrays Wyatt’s intimate relationships with the women in the film. In the film, the main character Wyatt Earp, has three separate and very distinct relationships with women. The lighting, arrangement of characters in the frame, the setting of the scene, the dialogue between the characters and the tone of voice in the dialogue, as well as the background music in the scenes all help create an emotional feel to how the characters feel towards each other. In this particular film I feel that the feeling of the main character, Wyatt’s feelings are more prominently shown rather than the feelings of his companion. While the film tries to somewhat give some feel to the woman’s perspective of emotions in regard to Wyatt, it is not the main expression given in the film. In a scene in the first part of the movie Wyatt is approached by a whore in a railroad camp he responds “I promised my heart to a girl in Lamur, Mo” and she responds “I bet ya I know a lot more than her”, Wyatt responds “I reckon so, unless a lot has changed in Lamur” which is shown with a close up showing a small yet endearing, innocent looking smile. In a few scenes late it shows him walking up to her home with flowers in hand, the shot shows him dressed to impress her which seems to show him to be a bit nervous about meeting her. Yet his dialogue with her is direct, the scenes of them together

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