Professor Myrna Monllor English 124

1. Professor Myrna Monllor English 124

2. The Western  Latter half of the 19th century  Archetypal characters  Modernity encroaching on a primitive way of life  The values of honor and sacrifice  Codes of honor  No social order Final conflict reestablishes moral order  Morality tales 

3. All the archetypes Cattle/Railroad baron The Pinkerton Detective The Determined homesteader The sheriff The outlaw http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WesternCharacters

4. Stagecoach1939 John Ford Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone

5. New Vision: Revisionist Westerns 2008 Neo-western 2007 2012

6. Elmore Leonard1925-2013 3:10 to Yuma Get Shorty Be Cool Out of Sight Jackie Brown (Rum Punch) “Try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip” “If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”

7. Story

8. The Beginning “He had picked up his prisoner at Fort Huachuca shortly after midnight and now, in a silent early morning mist, they approached Contention. The two riders moved slowly, one behind the other.”

9. WHAT IS THE MAIN CONFLICT?

10. Conflict/Theme Jim Kidd: “How much do you make, Marshal?” Paul Scallen: “A hundred and fifty a month, some expenses, and a dollar bounty for every arrest against Bisbee ordinance in the town limits.” “ Have you figured out yet what my price is?” “ You don’t have enough money, Jim.”

11. What roles do they play? Is there a hero? A villain? WHO ARE THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY?

12. Characterization • Paul Scallen "I'm only one man, Mr. Timpey, and I've got to get him there.” • Jim Kidd "You don't take any chances, do you? Where's your sporting blood?” "Something that makes sense. You said before I didn't mean a thing to you personally, what you're doing is just a job. Well, you figure out if it's worth getting killed for. • Mr. Timpey “I don't see why I have to get dragged into this. My job's got nothing to do with law enforcement ....” • Charlie Prince • Bob Moons Is Mr. Timpey similar to Mr. Butterfield? How does making Paul Scallen a marshall change the meaning of the story as compared to the film? What has just happened when Bob enters the room?

13. Paul Scallen “He wanted to get Jim Kidd on that train…but he was afraid. He was afraid of what he might do once they were on the street. Even now his breath was short and occasionally he would inhale and let the air out slowly to calm himself. And he kept asking himself if it was worth it.” “Scallen knew fear at that moment as fear had never gripped him before”

14. Ending Kidd studied the deputy for some minutes. Finally he said, “ You know, you really earn your hundred and a half.” … He felt as if all his strength had been sapped, but he couldn’t help smiling at Jim Kidd. He was thinking pretty much the same thing.

15. What elements from the story did the screenplay writers take?

17. James Mangold • The Wolverine (2013) • Knight and Day (2010) • Walk the Line (2005) • Identity (2003) • Kate and Leopold (2001) • Girl Interrupted (1999)

18. 3:10 to Yuma(2007) • Screenplay • Halsted Welles • Michael Brandt • Derek Hass • Nominated • Best Achievement in Music • Best Achievement in Sound • Remake of a 1957 film • Budget 55 million

19. The Music Gunshots Cracking whips Whistle Voices Electric Guitar

20. The Music 1957

21. The Music: Ennio Morricone

22. The Music: Marco Beltrami

23. The Music: Marco Beltrami

24. The Music : Marco Beltrami http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkXDLNRVMxY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFa1-kciCb4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVTJUiiPJUY&feature=related

25. What is the first sound you hear as the movie begins? Who is the first character that we see? What is he doing? What had he been doing? HOW DOES THE FILM BEGIN?

26. The Film: Beginning

27. The Film: BeginningEstablishing the theme

28. What do we learn?

29. Establishing the Conflict

30. The Landscape

31. The Landscape

32. Characterization WILLIAM

33. Witnessing the crime“He’s fast.” What did William take from the crime scene?

34. Characterization: Will “I ain't ever walking in your shoes. “

35. William “There’s a wildness in his eyes.”

36. Why didn’t William shoot Ben Wade at the end? “You did it, pa.”

37. Characterization DAN

38. Could Dan be a Christ figure? What do we learn about Dan the first time we see him? Characterization: Dan “I've been standing on one leg for three damn years waiting for God to do me a favor... and He ain't listening. “

39. “Sometimes a man has to be big enough to see how small he is” Mr. Hollander

40. Characterization: Dan’s Family Mark, William, and Alice Alice and Mark

41. “You lied to me.” Alice Evans: Don't do it, Dan. No one will think less of you. Dan Evans: No one can think less of me.

42. Characterization BEN WADE

43. Could Ben be the Devil? What is Ben doing the first time we see him? Characterization: Ben Wade “Proverbs 13:3. "He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life. He that opens his lips too wide shall bring on his own destruction".

44. “I don’t mess around with doing good things.” Ben Wade

45. Ben Wade’s Family

46. Velvet Jump out that back window with me now.

47. All of man’s ways seem right to him, but the Lord ponders the heart. Proverbs 21:2

48. I want to thank you for your hospitality, hope I can send your husband back alright.

49. “even bad men love their mammas.”

50. I read that Bible from cover to cover. It took me three days.