Saturday, September 17, 2016
Stagecoach
Stagecoach is one of the original western movies in 1939 that displayed the suffering of America, after the great depression between the twenties and thirties. This movie shows different cultural diversity in America from native Indians, to Spanish, and to the Japanese. During the Great Depression, jobs where so hard to get at that time so the only jobs woman had was prostitution. Dalla in this movie was an example of economic depression because she is portrayed as a prostitute but as the movie went on, Dallas wasn’t treated like a female in the stagecoach. Her point of view wasn't regarded, The reason why is because of her occupation. In one scene where Mrs Mallory another female in the state coach asked for water during their journey, Mr. Marshall curly offers her water with a cup. On the other hand, Dalla wanted some water but Marshall gave her the water bottle without a cup. One thing I like about this movie is that all characters in the stagecoach, started off as 7 strangers who wanted to get to there various destination but later on in the movie they all became very close.
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Lilian: While it's true that the movie was MADE during the Great Depression, the time that it is depicting is the 19th century (sometime probably not long after 1865 since there is discussion about the Civil War). Still, even though the setting is the 19th century, many would argue that it's telling us things about what it's like to live in 1939. Can you think of how it's showing us this?
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