Wednesday, October 31, 2007

my darling clementine

When I first saw this movie in class, for some odd reason I knew that the Wyatt Earp reminded me of another character in a movie that I had seen before and at first I couldn't think of who it was, but I finally figured it out at the end of the movie: he reminded me of HawkEye from The Last of the Mohicans! I later realized it because last year in APAL, we saw that movie to go along with the changes in the literary movements and how Americans writers began to move away from the European-type writing and this is how classic American writers not only introduced a new genre, but also new defenitions of the classic American hero. So anyway, both the hero in My Darling Clementine (Wyatt Earp) and the movie itself, remind me of HawkEye and The Last of the Mohicans because both heroes share similarities for the causes for which they are respectively fighting.

To begin with, both Wyatt Earp and Hawkeye typically represent the elements of the classic American hero. In Wyatt Earp's case,

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