The movie My Darling Clementine was what I expected to be the classic western. And now i am seeing that most westerns are based off of this classic western. One particular scene that seemed like the epitamy of a western was the scene when Wyatt Earp first came to the town and captured the drunken man who was firing randomly. This is the epitamy of a western because it describes the hero as a man who no man can match, and risks his life for others. This scene showed that no man can match him, because literally no man in the town would go to try and stop the drunk man. But Wyatt Earp did. He also put his life at danger for some strangers he didn't know at all, and his excuse is he wanted a peaceful shave.
Another important factor of the western My Dear Clementine is the love story. The hero always falls in love with some beautiful lady who sweeps him off his feet. As we saw at the end of the movie Wyatt Earp hardly could hold his own ground when saying good buy to Clementine because he was blushing so much. The hero who seems unbeatable to any man always has a weakness to women. In this movie that was the case. Wyatt did have a weakness for women, specifically one woman. Usually the weakness only occurs to the one woman the hero loves. This love battle makes the viewer want to be the hero in the movie. The movie My Darling Clementine, the aspect of a true "western hero" is the main focus of the movie. The movie is a classic western.
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Andrew-
I also wrote about the hero part of a western. I focused on how the film portrayed him as a hero instead of him exactly acting like a hero. I like how you took the hero thing one step farther by adding in weaknesses. Very cool. Wahoo
Hey andrew, I complete ly agree with you that all westerns derive from this film and that only the soon to be be hero can step up to the plate and stop some crazy drunk. But i feel that revenge is more of a western topic because that is what really gets the character involved in the plot of the movie. nice job on your post
In my opinion, the weakness for women that the main hero in a western generally has seems to define the hero more so as a gentleman, setting him apart from the villians and other characters in the movie. Also to make him seem more classy the woman he loves is normally not the prostitute bar girl.
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