The_Western_Genre_Film

The Western Genre Film The western genre film, besides having the two opposing forces of good and evil, often contains a third party character, a character I refer to as the enigma westerner. The enigma westerner is a character who is often torn in two by the devices of evil and the benefits of goodness. He typically sways this way and that throughout the film, never fully deciding which side of the coin his allegiance lies, until, finally, at the film’s climax, the enigma westerner sides with the forces of good, thus ensuring their mutual triumph over evil. My argument surrounding the enigma westerner is this; the character that falls under this categorization makes the film more human and more accessible to the average person, to society in general. The average person, realistically, does not see themselves in a light of absolute purity and goodness nor as the embodiment of absolute evil. The reality is that the average person finds themselves in the large grey area in between the distinctions of absolute evil and absolute goodness. The enigma westerner, much like the majority of society, falls in this same grey area. Using the films My Darling Clementine film, enigma, westerner, character, ethan, audience, hero, holliday, good, film’s, doc, society, human, evil, relate, humanity, forces, between, average, person, makes, edwards, absolute, western, reality, people, mistakes, heroic, goodness, genre, everyday, end, earp, accessible, wear