FILM_S 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Wrongfully Accused
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For our final viewing assignment, our class was tasked with watching the films unforgiven and stagecoach. Both of these films were similar in that they took place in a past tense western society. Indians, men, women and heroes in different fashions, and gave their intended audiences a chance to experience the wild west, and make their own interpretation of what that life entailed. The first film i watched was the 1939 john ford directed film, stagecoach. What initially stood out to me was the typical hollywood depiction of this era, meaning that native. Americans were seen as a threat to the caucasian way of life and progression. As many of us now know and understand, this is quite the opposite, as they were wrongfully pushed out of their land and massacred. While stagecoach used this underlying theme, one which is easily.
