Extended Reading
  • Dana 2022-04-26 06:01:02

    From "Flying Over Mount Guan" to "Dancing With Wolves", an analysis of the American mythology in Western films.

    Of all the genre films, Westerns should be said to best reflect the characteristics of Hollywood genre films. Western is a type of film unique to Hollywood, and can also be called the most American type of film. Western films are mainly based on the historical background of Americans developing the...

  • Alfonso 2022-04-26 06:01:02

    Road, Western, Adventure

    A western classic through the lens of John Ford. It's not like the frontiers written by Gao Shi or the rivers and lakes written by Jin Yong. The hoofs of the horses are strong, the wind is fierce, and the cowboy has a guitar and a shotgun in his hands. The romantic and passionate temperament is...

Stagecoach quotes

  • Ringo Kid: Look, Miss Dallas. You got no folks... neither have I. And, well, maybe I'm takin' a lot for granted, but... I watched you with that baby - that other woman's baby. You looked... well, well I still got a ranch across the border. There's a nice place - a real nice place... trees... grass... water. There's a cabin half built. A man could live there... and a woman. Will you go?

    Dallas: But you don't know me - you don't know who I am.

    Ringo Kid: I know all I wanna know. Will you go?

    Dallas: Oh, don't talk like that!

  • [the stagecoach occupants are voting whether or not to continue without a cavalry escort]

    Marshal Curly Wilcox: How 'bout you, Mr. Hancock?

    Samuel Peacock: Peacock. I'd like to go on, brother. I want to reach the bosom of my dear family in Kansas City, Kansas as quickly as possible; but, I may never reach that bosom if we go on... so, under the circumstances - you understand, brother - I think it best we go back with the bosoms... I mean the soldiers.