Teil (1. 96. 3)Edit. The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re- rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war. Dezember 1910 in Calgary, Alberta; . Dezember 1983 in Gainesville (Georgia); geb I found out about Playster in the New York times and I'm very happy about it: “One of the newest contenders in the crowded field, a company based in Montreal called Playster, offers music, games, TV shows. Karl May’s stories have been popular throughout the world for the past one hundred and twenty five years. While there have been many films and television shows produced on the Winnetou story, the audiences around the world. TEIL ist der romantischste Karl-May-Film – er geizt nicht mit sch. Zwar hat er nicht den m WINNETOU 1 GERMAN JUGOSLAVIA FRANCE 1964 TRAILER IN ENGLISH NEW. Return to Cooper in Film, Drama, and Opera. Return to Home Page. Among the art forms that have been classified as native to the United States are jazz, detective stories, and the musical comedy. To this register must be added Cooper's creation: The Western novel and its modern media manifestation - - The Western film. America's first professional author, James Fenimore Cooper, probably never considered that he had created an art form. Michael Butler . In a chapter entitled . William Everson, in his chapter on The Western, stated: . Assorted. writers such as Smith, Folsom, and Cawelti have attributed the invention of the . Richard Cawelti (1. His Leatherstocking Tales were certainly instrumental in creating the genre. Like him they possessed the ability to slide. He excels in each sphere, exploits each completely, but commits himself. The dramatic appearance of Leatherstocking in the first chapter of The Prairie is often duplicated in the Western film usually with the hero entering the scene of strife against a. In the end of the film the Western hero is usually portrayed departing for the next frontier as did Leatherstocking. The protagonist in the Western novel or film, like Cooper's character, is: a strong honorable man; a patriot who loves nature and the freedom of the broad expanse of the land; reluctant to use force but efficient as a fast draw killer who respects the villain as a fighting man; a quiet western knight who is the protector of virtuous women; a romantic figure who, following the resolution of the strife, leaves with his sidekick or rides off alone nostalgically into the sunset on his horse looking for another he left behind. Jenni Calder explains that loneliness is a persistent theme in the saga of the old frontier. It is not essentially different in the Lone Ranger or any other of Hollywood's mighty heroes ex machina. Perhaps because of his life style a particular characteristic of the hero is usually a strong attachment to an animal. Cooper led the way with Natty's dog Hector. Although there have been notable canine friends in Western films, the horse usually shared or more often won out for this role. The frontiersman moved silently and swiftly on foot through the eastern forest. Throughout the wide western wilderness the horse enabled the hero to move freely. The . A conflict is created by the adversary, and after parrying most of this evil by inner control, the hero must resort to violence to resolve the conflict. It is certainly an important element in Cooper's . Cooper's description has been the basis for many a filmed gunfight. The successful completion of the hero's journey is also often accompanied by a change of name for the character as Cooper first penned for Natty Bumppo. Examples are: William F. Cody became Buffalo Bill; James Butler Hickok became Wild Bill; William Ronney became Billy the Kid; or Jim Lacy who became just . The name of Cooper's. John's Single Eye a Story of King Phillip's War; Charles Dunning Clark's Eagle Eye; or, Ralph Warren and his Red Friend. A Story of the Fall of Oswego; Lewis J. Swift's Keen- Eye; Max Martine's Sharp- Eye a Beadle and Adams book of 1. Avery, who wrote the book, had been captured and adopted by the Sioux and had married a Chief's daughter. Chingachgook who played these roles in The Leatherstocking Tales. He epitomizes male bonding which is an integral part of the Western's male- dominated world. He augments the hero by possessing useful talents that the hero does not. He is often used as a contrast to the hero's philosophy of life; and although both possess similar admirable qualities, they are attracted to and respect each other's differences. Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in the many films about their lives; Tom Dunston and Matthew Garth of . The character has been replicated in the Red Rider and the Little Beaver Republic film series . Cora represented the dark and passionate black haired beauty found in Western films. Often as the good friend of the hero she was socially . She would and did give her life for the hero many times. Freeing the hero by having the good bad women die was also Cooper's denouement. The pure frail lady Alice was the blond, usually from back East, that men married to maintain civilization as it was known on the frontier. Cooper's archetypes became the Dance Hall Girl and the Eastern School Marm. Notable examples of Cooper's female characters in Western films may be seen in . Other examples are good bad girl Corinne Calvert (. Examples are: Amanda Blake as Miss Kitty (. Although the theme proved fascinating and fruitful for the story writer, film scenarists also chose not to permit both lovers to live. Western novelist and Western film makers thus followed Cooper's disapproval of mixed marriages and the potential progeny. The Western villain must possess both positive traits and evil qualities. He must be able to fight nearly as well as the hero. Cooper provided Westerns with a model often cloned: Magua. The villain must dominate the heroine to prove his superiority and/or to gain revenge. In Western films the villain is. Indian although on occasion he is a white man with the. Some examples are: Lt. Muir in The. Pathfinder; Chester Bent in . Charles Cap (The Pathfinder); Ben Pump (The Pioneers); or Dr. Obed Battius (The Prairie). While Cooper may have used these characters to deprecate characteristics he found offensive, Western talkies of the 1. Gabby Hayes/Smiley Burnette characters for box office appeal and monetary gain. Carried into TV we see Leo Carrillo as Pancho in . Hollywood's B- Westerns (1. Cooper's comic relief character most frequently although the role continues to appear in films into this decade. Oliver Edwards and Natty Bumppo are conventional characters of romantic fiction - - American versions of an aristocratic hero and his faithful servant. Cooper used similar characters in two more novels in the series: The Last of the Mohicans (1. The Prairie (1. 82. In each, he matched the humble Bumppo with a younger and . In part because of Cooper's considerable prestige and circulation, the partnership of young hero and older helper remained a constant one in frontier fiction. Memorable Dudes penned by Cooper are Duncan Heyward (Last of the Mohicans; Jasper Western (The Pathfinder); Oliver Edwards (The Pioneers); and Duncan Uncas Middleton (The Prairie). In The Western, the Dude is often a rash, young, military officer or a youthful, noble- minded, courageous character who is unacquainted with the dangers of the frontier and whose actions must be tempered. The character of the mentor may be seen in Ben Cartwright and Hopalong Cassidy types. John, Andy Clyde, Raymond Hatton, Fuzzy Knight, and Lee White played Natty Bumppo to the Oliver Edwards of Roy Rogers, Buster Crabbe, William Boyd, John Mack Brown, Eddie Dean, Jimmy Wakely. Until recently at least one variation of the pattern survived in the friendship of Marshal Dillon and Festus Hagen. A primitive group who rely only on themselves, the clan is above the law; has no regard for the land, morality, nor people's property; and is usually portrayed as barbaric, lecherous, and often deranged. Lynching was an acceptable way of dispensing justice in the Western with its lack of civilized law. Cooper's positive view of lynching (in a situation devoid of law) can be seen in . This endorsement did not change until . The woman motivates the man to be the hero and to protect her, her family, or her property. She has no mother and travels or lives with her father on the frontier. This aging father is unable to protect his daughter: enter the hero. The capture- escape- pursuit- capture- escape formula has also been a very successful plotline . The filmmakers usually followed Cooper's picture of the noble Indian whose lands have been appropriated by the white man or antithetically they portrayed the Indian as the blood thirsty savage. If Western films . Once a writer finds a plot formula that works, it is usually reproduced with some minor changes. Cooper used a successful formula when he opened The Pathfinder with a similar scene that The Last of the Mohicans began. Cooper's use of formulae . Cooper's formulae served B- Western films well from the 1. Although a powerful saving force has long been an author's deus ex machina, Cooper in chapter thirty of The Deerslayer popularized the last minute military rescue. Cavalry charge and has been stock footage in many Western films. The Pioneers is important to the Western genre because in it may be found the basic plots used in writing the Western. The novel is also crucial to understand Western writing because Cooper deals with the ownership of the land which was central in so many Western books and films. All of this action takes place, as Cooper so aptly described in his novels, on the edge of civilization: the frontier with its perils and exciting adventure awaiting in the next chapter or on the next reel of film. The Western should be with us for many years to come because the social problems that Cooper explored in his oeuvre still face each new generation. Cooper's Western building blocks: plots, characters, themes, and iconography are already being explored in the films and TV serials of our final. Despite the fact that Cooper furnished the Western film enduring characters, plots, themes and motifs, Cooper has not fared well at the movies. Jeffery Walker stated: . Almost all of the film adaptations have concentrated on his plots, always to the novel's detriment . Starting in 1. 90. Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales have spanned nine decades of cinematography. The Leatherstocking Tales have been the source of most of the films made from Cooper's books, and The Last of the Mohicans has been the book most often adapted to the screen. The first public showing of a motion picture was at the. Holland Brother's Kinetoscope Parlor in New York City on April 1. Griffith's first silent films for Biograph Studios was . Cooper thus also holds the distinction of being the first. American author to have his novel adapted for film.
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