The Wild Bunch

Representing the Western genre, which was once popular, but started to be worn-out by the 50s, The Wild Bunch was a surprising reassessment of the American Old West. Instead of portraying lonely ’knights’ who discover the wild territories while looking for adventures, the film focused on aging outlaws whose possibilities and future prospects became limited and only their honour code is left for them. The gang tries to survive at any costs throughout the story – therefore the movie contains cruel killing scenes. The Wild Bunch, because of its violence, was immediately criticised by many. Peckinpah was already under the influence of Penn’s film. The daring use of shootout sequences and the slow motion camera technique inspired him greatly. Looking back, it is not a surprise at all, that the picture Peckinpah directed was an amalgamation of…

to interpret this strife out on the camera. Usually this strife was the “destruction of savagery and the regeneration of white America” (Cawelti 144). While America progressed culturally and socially, the Western was a “counter-statement” (Cawelti 149) to this progression. Women and minorities were fighting for equal rights as the Western fought to keep the evolution of American society at bay. Western film was fighting hard against real life and people of all groups wanting civil rights. One…

The concept of "The Brady Bunch" started back in 1966 when Sherwood Schwartz (the creator and producer of the show) heard that somewhere between 20-30% of all families had at least one child from a previous marriage. The show was about a mother with three daughters by one marriage, marries a widower with three boys, a maid and a dog. The first season of The Brady Bunch focused on the newly blended family and the conflicts that arose from the merger. The family eventually learned to get a long as…

to work for scale because you don't have the budget to pay them what might get in another production. The best people to hire, asking too money to even be considered. Plenty of good films are still made under these circumstances. I'd label it a horror film, but in all actuality, Bigfoot plays more like a comedy. In a starring role, the Brady Bunch's Barry Williams. I have always had the impression that Mr. Williams seriously, could not act his way out of a paper bag. He seems to have only…

and behave. The show not only showed America what a traditional family was like, but also perpetuated the idea of what roles men and woman played, at the time. Men were expected to provide for their families, and woman were expected to provide meals, a clean home, as well as emotional, and mental support to her husband and children Yet another example, of this family dynamic was The Brady Bunch, a hit television show that aired from 1969 to 1974. Mike and Carol Brady, struggled to blend their…

Christopher McCandless was a young man who wanted to release himself from his idealist parents and society. He desired to be rid of all things materialistic and to be isolated in a place that was untouched by the civilizations of man. Chris believed that relationships were not important enough to keep him from going into the wild. At the end of the Christopher’s life, he discovered the value of relationships, and would have came back into society had he survived. McCandless was on the right path…

I command them to release me from my current situation, and sure enough they gather to my area in a blink of an eye. Although I can't see, I am able to somewhat check my surroundings from the wild dogs point of view. They gather to my area which is just a plain field in what seems to be surrounded by trees all around. Wait...What? Where the hell am I exactly? Don't tell me I'm under...fucking ground. I swear on...tchh whatever, what more do you expect from a person whose suppose to be dead. Well…

Into The Wild is the real story of Chris McCandless, a youthful Emory graduate who was discovered dead in the Alaskan wild in September 1992 at the age of 24. McCandless experiences childhood in rich rural areas of Washington, D.C., and is an extremely skilled challenger and researcher, who’s from his early age, demonstrates thoughtful energy, and powerful ideas. In the wake of moving on from secondary school McCandless spends the mid-year alone on a street trip which he finds that his dad…

Ever wonder what it would be like to live in the wild just you, nature and no one else around, well Christopher McCandless did he set off to live off into the Alaskan Wilderness following the Stampede trail that led him to an old abandoned bus where he lived for a short period of time but later died in that bus. Along his journey to the Alaskan Wilderness, he has made a few friends along the way. There are a lot of advantages and disadvantages to living on the road, so is life on the road…

Path To Deterioration American author, Cassia Leo, once wrote, “The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people around you” (Leo). Leo is claiming that loneliness easily causes the destruction of a human. In Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild, he showcases a similar opinion on solitude through the story of Chris McCandless. Chris McCandless runs away from his family and former life to start one of his own, by himself, in the Alaskan wilderness. Similarly, in Ray Bradbury’s novel…