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| − | + | WOW! Where to start with this movie! ''My Darling Clementine'' rivals ''Pocahontas'' in the way that it includes historical characters, for the most part, while simultaneously fabricating the whole story. Here are some glaring inconsistencies that jumped out at me: | |
| + | * The Clanton’s didn’t kill James. The Clanton’s didn’t even instigate matters. | ||
| + | * Wyatt and Doc knew each other rather well prior to Tombstone and even “ran together”. | ||
| + | * There was NO mention of politics or political contexts to rivalries- all of the disputes in the movie were personal grievances. | ||
| + | * In the film Tombstone was a one street town full of vice. Although there was plenty of vice in the Old West, there was also infrastructure and functioning civil society. | ||
| + | * The Tombstone depicted in the film seemed to represent a rather monolithic society of white drinkers and gamblers, with a token black minstrel and Indian drunkard, but where were the representations of racial and cultural diversity? | ||
| + | * Where was Kate Elder, Clementine, “Curly” Bill Brocious, Mattie Blaylock, Johnny Ringo, John Behan, or Frank and Thomas McLaury, or Josephine Behan??? | ||
| + | * No one in this movie died of disease. It was obvious that Doc was suffering from illness, but it was not specified. | ||
| + | These issues seem to be easy to work into the film. The exclusion of these characters and contexts make the movie easier to follow, but inevitably oversimplify and trivialize the complexities of the Old West. - Jason Ward | ||
== 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | == 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | ||
