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@afrisk, I was considering how the film seemed to give women a really weak role dependent on men. Not only did they not have any authority, but they lacked even the power to do anything on their own. The film only focuses on two women, even though we do see others, but both of them hardly look like women that can deal with hardships, which seems unlikely.-Bakhtinjali | @afrisk, I was considering how the film seemed to give women a really weak role dependent on men. Not only did they not have any authority, but they lacked even the power to do anything on their own. The film only focuses on two women, even though we do see others, but both of them hardly look like women that can deal with hardships, which seems unlikely.-Bakhtinjali | ||
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| + | One of the documents, Helen Stuart, talks about a husband's death. The thing that struck me about this reading was that she kept mentioning the evidence for it was all circumstantial. This kind of ties in closely with the movie where Wyatt didn't really know who killed his brother, and he only tied it together through the necklace. I guess it shows that in the West there really was no order, and people barely had an idea what was going on. The rule of Gun was in fact the Law. - Jenn | ||
== Questions asked in class == | == Questions asked in class == | ||
John Ford loved the West (see "Stagecoach," for instance) and he used its landscape to illustrate American values, such as loyalty, familial ties, determination, and hard work. In "My Darling Clementine" the land is not the enemy; we don't see natural disasters such as the prairie fire that Mary Abell's diary describes, nor the hardships forced on settlers moving into a treeless region. Neither is the land a victim; we don't see the ravages of mining or lumbering. John Ford's West is a majestic panorama, vast and unsullied. It is a backdrop to mythic themes of human passions, triumphs, griefs and victories. --- Debbi S. | John Ford loved the West (see "Stagecoach," for instance) and he used its landscape to illustrate American values, such as loyalty, familial ties, determination, and hard work. In "My Darling Clementine" the land is not the enemy; we don't see natural disasters such as the prairie fire that Mary Abell's diary describes, nor the hardships forced on settlers moving into a treeless region. Neither is the land a victim; we don't see the ravages of mining or lumbering. John Ford's West is a majestic panorama, vast and unsullied. It is a backdrop to mythic themes of human passions, triumphs, griefs and victories. --- Debbi S. | ||
