Aunt Peg C

We continue into the intensity scene. This is used and abused today to a great extent. In the 1930's and 1940's the Scene "sense/feeling" was limited at times to the "soft lens" for romantic or glamour scene transitions. The use of sound continued this with at times more emphatic changes. An example is John Ford's Western "Stagecoach" (which is mandatory viewing in any Film School. It has the 'plot' of almost every Western made. Saloon Girl with Heart of Gold, young wife going West to be with husband, Drunken Doctor, Southern Gambler/Southern Gentleman/Gallant, Bad Guy who is really the Hero, Wrong man sent to prison, Gunfight on the street, mis-direction as in the villain walks in and orders a drink/then falls/the Good Guy won, hero and girl ride off into the future AND The Calvary in the 'Nick of time" with the Bugle Announcing and changing the feeling of despair into triumph.) (BTW, I am half native American and we laughed at the chase the stage coach scene. Think about it, stage going fast, running away, Chief has Brave (Indian word for Knight) Squinty Eyes shoot horses with 50 cal rifle bullet. Bullet faster than horses. Go to stage wreck, get the goodies, women alive take home, Old West version of foreign domestic help. Take a lot of horsemeat for freezer, (naw, we smoked the meat, gotcha) We would have considered this One-Stop shopping. Highway men and gangs the world over used this tactic. Sorry about that, we just weren't that dumb....... Oh, and we did have scouts out, you know INDIAN Scouts? We would have known the Calvary was coming when they left the fort. Hint: brass buttons and metal swords, guns, buckles flicker and can be seen for miles in the desert sun, white soldiers never seemed to get this. Our modern army is NOT that dumb, but then again, there's a lot of us in it... .... 8)