Even though I was not there to see the end of the movie Stagecoach, I still feel like I got a good read on the movie. It was a very interesting movie, I had never seen a Western that was that old before and I was interesting to seen an old style movie featuring John Wayne in his break though movie.
The acting in the movie was a little dry for my liking. I never really felt pulled into the plot and really wasn't that interested in the story and the reason all of the characters were going. I felt like just a random bunch of people put together in a stagecoach and riding through dangerous Native American land.
As far as the camera angles go, that is where I felt the movie made up for the lack of plot. Even though it was somewhat ovious that the director was shooting from the same place in different directions the long shots of the desert and the terrain were amazing. And the camera angles for the narrative were impressive too.
Overall Stagecoach is not my favorite movie but I still can appreciate the art behind it. Westerns seem pretty cool to me and I am looking very forward to seeing all of Client Eastwood in Unforgiven.
4 comments:
Did you miss the final chase scene between the stagecoach and the indians? If so that would probably explain why the acting was a bit of a let down for you. The chase scene is arguably the most exciting part of the entire movie and it's a shame if you missed it. I agree with you that the landscape in Stagecoach is amazing. I think that's partly what makes the Western so unique and American. Because nowhere else in the world could you film that setting than here in the U.S. It also really helped show the viewer that the Stagecoach is in the middle of nowhere, far away from all of civilization. It's the wild West.
I disagree with what superbade said on the acting part. lets just be honest the acting in general is a couple steps down from where we are used to so i kind of think foss has a point on why he thinks the acting wasnt very good in the first place. oh and foss do you actually think the angles were impressive?
Your post is concise and to the point, but i would have to disagree with you on the angles impressiveness, i felt that the film was lacking in this area, it didn't really seem like ford spent as much time tinkering around with the photography as he should have. To me an old western isn't much different from today's western except for the fact that back then you could trip horses with trip wire and noone would care. I do have a good feeling about Unforgiven though.
John Wayne!!
Ya, that's a stretch to say the camera angles made up for the dry acting and plot. I agree that Stage Coach had its moments. New ground is found a little bit at a time.
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