REQUIRED VIEWING: John Ford – Transformative director who embraced, then critiqued genre conventions 1. The Searchers (1956), 119 min 1. What was your "gut reaction" to this film? What are your...

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Question No.1: .What was your "gut reaction" to this film? What are your reasons for feeling this way?
Answer: The Searchers is an American Film directed by John Ford and is based on Alan Le May 1954 novel. This movie is the basis on the Indian-Texas wars and shows the mindset of people of that time, the movie is full of landscapes scene that takes the audience to the 19th Century. The film depicts the after effect of the war that how people suffered and lived after the war was ended. Although the war ended after sometime but the miseries were not over, this is very closely showcased in the film, Ethan Edwards return after the war with medals and gold coins and is being appreciated by the government also, but after some time his wife and son were dead and his niece and sister were abducted. The film is about the searching of his niece and sister that followed with a lot of fighting’s, destruction and lose of mental peace. My gut reaction after watching the film was that war starts between two countries...