Ford had many distinctive stylistic trademarks, thematic preoccupations and visual motifs that constantly recur throughout his work as a director. A clear personal vision with a consistent visual style, ideas of characters were simply branded as “American”. His heroes often appear to simply be loners, the outcast of society who will always speak through action rather than words. Ford’s film, particularly the Westerns express a deep visual feeling for the American past. The constructions of compositions have a classic trademark strength in which masses of people and their natural surroundings are beautifully juxtaposed.
In a classical American western story, there are a number of ideas which are commonly patterned throughout the western genre. These particular attributes entailed in westerns, over time have made the genre what it is. A few of them, such as the setting, are characteristic to nearly all westerns. Many characters included over a vast number of these stories, share many of the same hard, venturesome, qualities acquired from living in the rugged lands of the American west. Some of them are even-handed men who fight for the greater good, some are selfish, malevolent men.
“Thanks to Hollywood, virtually everyone knows the ingredients of the Western—the lassos, and the colt 45’s; the long-horned steers and the hanging trees; the stage coaches and the Stetson hats; the outlaws and the lawmen; the gamblers and the gunfighters,” Says Gary Johnson. The movies paved the way for the character known as a Cowboy. The cowboys wore chaps, which are leather leggings that are worn over the man’s trousers joined by a belt. They also wore the traditional cowboy hat. Heroes were what they were referred to as because they portrayed as strong and rugged sitting high on their horses.
Gone with the Wind is a paradigm which is the example of classic Hollywood film score, because the music itself has characteristics being played out of the film score throughout the storyline. The classic Hollywood film score is known to create emotions and moods that mirrors the actions and drama throughout the film. The classic Hollywood film score helps bring the movie more to life, it makes it more vivid and as an audience you can see the action and drama but also feel the music blend in perfectly with the mood of the film. Also in Birth of a Nation you see how they apply well know melodies such as "Dixie" and "Tara" and how they become unique themes in the
The film that I choose to write about is the movie 3:10 to Yuma. I choose to write about this movie because it’s a western and the western movement played a big part on American Cinema as it still does today. I will give you a deep and in depth background on genres, directors, film styles, which have been directly influenced by the western film movement. The Western is a genre of art that can also be found in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts these are just some of the ways westerns can be located but there are plenty others out there . When westerns first came out they were suppose to tell about the 19th century in the American Old West.
Church's ability to write songs that create feeling inside of someone; whether it is the feeling of happiness, or nostalgia, or sadness, is what I find so damn impressive. It's a completely believable connection to the songs and a seemingly unrehearsed look at who he is, where he came from and what's most important to him and his life. Some might say this album was close to crossing that "too much rock" line. Had Church been around to release it in the late 70s and early 80's with the mix of outlaw country stars of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Hank Jr, Cash, and others, he would have just been another guy in the crowd. "Lotta Boot Left To Fill" was the best song in my opinion on the album.
Stagecoach (1939) Following the nine characters’ journey to Lordsburg reminded me a lot of the game “Oregon Trail”. I found a lot of similarities between the game and their journey, like the birth of Mrs. Mallory’s son, rest-stops to refresh their needs, and the scene that made me draw the comparison between the game and the film was when they crossed the river with the horses and the stagecoach. I remember every Oregon Trail journey the players must cross a river exactly like how the stagecoach did in the movie. The reading of “The Western as Combat Genre” explains a western genre cultural myth of “courageous warriors fighting noble battles” and I found that the scene where the men of the stagecoach fighting the Geronimo and the Apaches depicted this point very well. The men were very brave during that battle.
- Period Settings Tied to Anderson’s nostalgia, the period backdrops of all his films are significant enough that they demand individual attention. In perhaps the ultimate display of his personal devotion to nostalgia, Anderson’s films all take place in eras that occur prior to the present. Or at least they all seem to; films like Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, and The Royal Tenenbaums are practically modern compared to his latter day efforts. But even when he doesn’t directly acknowledge the time period (as with Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, for example), there’s a sheen of antiquity to all of his films. Try imagining a Wes Anderson movie set in 2014; it’s pretty hard to picture.
In modern society, myth is often regarded as historical or obsolete. Many scholars in the field of cultural studies are now beginning to research the idea that myth has worked itself into modern discourses. Modern formats of communication allow for wide spread communication across the globe, thus enabling mythological discourse and exchange among greater audiences than ever before. Various elements of myth can now be found in television, cinema and video games. Although myth was traditionally transmitted through the oral tradition on a small scale, the technology of the film industry has enabled filmmakers to transmit myths to large audiences via film dissemination (Singer, “Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film”, 3-6).
They are two opposite types of movies, but you can still see similarities in the way he shot the films. Woody Allen is one of the best film directors of all time, because of the way he shoots his films and writes them. The fact that he has done this on a consistent level throughout the years also shows his greatness. Woody Allen has had a lot of success in the film industry. He has won 3 Oscars and been nominated for 16 of them in many different categories.