The Seachers

 John Fords films are scene as timeless and the way he presented the scenery was in his own way that was loved by most. Ford gave a sense of realism in his films. His films were watched less as individual movies and more of as works of John Ford and that is why people watched them. One of John Ford films is called The Searchers. This film contains very beautiful shots of the surrounding area. For example the dessert surrounding the characters during Ethan's arrivals. As well as the cameras shots when they are on the horses and it really just sets the time period and setting in a large scale way.

With Ethan's arrival home the kids all react different. They all react similarly in being excited but some as more questions than other as well as it is clear that Ethan has not been around in a very long time. Ethan takes pride in being able to provide for himself and that he has money but he is still relaying on others. 

Everyone is constantly mentioning how long he has been gone. I feel like this is mentioned to show how involved in these peoples lives he was and now he has been gone and clearly missed in some way. 

There is a clear internal struggle within Ethan. His leave of absents isn't shown in the film but you can defiantly see the trauma he has from it. But even with his hardships people see him as a figure of safety.

I feel like he has this large title in the community, that he does not necessarily want. Ethan is very caring with some people but with others you can see he is much more harsh with.

The way Ethan almost makes these kind of weirdly timed jokes when it comes to serious topics is a very weird thing to watch. For example  when he shoots the dead body and laughs about it is a very interesting character choice.

Throughout the film Ethan is very stubborn about what he wants. He seemingly does not care what he has to do to achieve his goals. But this being said some of the other characters are like this as well.

Ethan does not think very positively about being able to find Debbie and Lucy but he still will help to do it. It seems that he does not want to get his own hope up about finding them. so he has this mentality of thinking they are dead until he is proven wrong.

John Fords films were wildly popular at the time and were full of many different wide shot, outdoor scenes that really give the view a since of period as setting.