Examine the opening five minutes of 'High Noon', 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', and 'Unforgiven'. Discuss what each of the directors seek to achieve in these sequences and how they locate their film within the genre.
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Examine the opening five minutes of 'High Noon', 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', and 'Unforgiven'. Discuss what each of the directors seek to achieve in these sequences and how they locate their film within the genre. The three films 'High Noon', 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', and 'Unforgiven' are all classic films that are located in the Western genre. Principally these Westerns are set between the period 1860 to 1900 and often located to the west of the Missouri and the Mississippi. The production of these three films span through a period of 40 years from 1952 to 1992 showing a change and progression in the style of filming. From examining the opening five minutes of each of the three films and with great reference to the key concepts I shall be able to establish what notions build a Western and analyse how effectively they are used...


