When he stays among those in the Cheyenne tribe, Jack has a fairy-tale-like life, he learns about respect and about how to be at peace with the world.
Question number 4.
The Searchers is one of the most renowned Westerns mainly because it has John Wayne starring in it and because of its confusing, yet clever, plot which keeps the audience captivated. The movie is certainly representative for the genre because it complies with most of the rules that such films needs to conform to.
The movie is also believed to be characteristic for the United States from the period following the Civil War. Ford apparently tries to justify Ethan's racism through the fact that the character has been compelled to act accordingly because of the fact that Indians have destroyed his brother's family.
As he comes home, Ethan visits his brother, Aaron, and gives money and presents to him and to his two daughters, Lucy and Debbie. Just when Ethan leaves his brother's farm, a group of Comanche Indians raid the farm, murdering most of Aaron's
During a skirmish between the two belligerent camps, one of the rangers is hurt and the group decides to return. Ethan along with Lucy's lover, Brad, and Aaron's adopted son, Martin, decide to move on regardless to the fact that the rangers leave. Subsequent to a chain of events, Lucy is presumably murdered by the Indians and her lover follows her as he goes on a suicidal mission to get revenge.
Ethan and Martin realize that they have lost track of the Indians and return to the farm. It takes more than five years until the two manage to receive information regarding Lucy's whereabouts. To their surprise, they also find that Lucy had become the lover of Scar, a Comanche tribe chief.
He is determined to kill both Lucy and Scar as a result. Martin joins him and they both find the tribe and manage to capture and kill Scar. Martin saves Lucy just as Ethan is about to kill her. The movie ends with Ethan bringing Debbie back to the safety or her friends.
The Searchers manages to keep tension among the audience from the beginning and until the end. The movie's commercial success and the fact that people still regard it as being remarkable in the present days prove that it truly is one of the greatest films in history.
Works cited:
1. Little Big Man. Dir. Arthur Penn. Cinema Center Films, 1970.
2. The Searchers. Dir. John Ford. Warner Bros., 1956.
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