Riding in a stage coach essays

Riding in a stage coach essays This movie is one in which you want to watch it but you keep telling yourself to turn it off. What I mean by this is that this movie is, and always will be important to film history and also known for giving John Wayne his big break. But it will make you snore your head off if youre culturally more attracted to more of the Finding Nemo or Matrix movies. Stagecoach is about a group of travelers that hear about a possible apache attack. Among those travelers are Ringo (John Wayne), who is a prisoner for killing but is later realized to have killed in self defense. Mallory (Louise Platt) a pregnant woman searching for her husband and Dallas (Clair Trevor) a prostitute. Those are some main characters to name a few. The Director John Ford is a very smart person in the way he had camera angels. What I mean is that in every scene, the camera articulated the mood of the scene perfectly. Like during one scene, where the stagecoach is being attacked, he gets camera shots that you can see more than one persons emotion and I found that rather exciting. Another thing that I did like about this movie is how he really made it feel like it was a Western. I mean you can tell from the first 5 minuets that its not a science fiction. Another thing this movie must be commended on was in 1998 the American Film Institute voted Stagecoach in the top 100 American movies of all time. And considering how many movies have been made between 1939 and 1998 that is a tremendous honor. Also when it came out originally in 1939 it was voted one of the top ten movies of that year by the New Your Times. Although it only won two Academy awards including Best supporting actor, and Best score. It still was nominated for 6 Academies. Now my opinion on the film was that it was not my style at all. It is a good movie for what it is, but in no way shape or form is it a movie that I woul...