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13 Feb 07 - 11:22 PM (#1966926) Subject: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,meself Help - my brain's not working. I need an example of a classic - or at least well-known - Western movie in which the hero or anti-hero marries a "lady", preferably the schoolma'arm, at the end. |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:26 PM (#1966928) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: number 6 "Open Range" with Kevin Costner I think he one the little lady in the end ... correct me if I'm wrong. biLL |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:27 PM (#1966929) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: number 6 correction won ... not one. I apologize for my banana finger typing again. biLL |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:30 PM (#1966931) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,meself Thanks for the quick response! I don't know that movie - just to verify - the "little lady in red" is "respectable"? |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:33 PM (#1966934) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,meself Wickepedia says "romance blossoms" at the end, but doesn't mention marriage ... ? |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:42 PM (#1966940) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: Rapparee High Noon, but they get married before. |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:42 PM (#1966942) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: number 6 Oh yes indeed ... the little lady is very respectable in that movie. I think. Correct me if I'm wrong anyone. biLL |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:50 PM (#1966949) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: number 6 Well ... Open Range is a recent movie ... who get's married these days ... if my memory serves me well they damned well looked like they were going setup shack together ... i guess that's as good as getting married (isn't it). biLL |
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13 Feb 07 - 11:54 PM (#1966953) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,meself You would think so, wouldn't you? But in this instance, I'm writing a paper, and I've set up a precious little conceit that relies on a Western with an actual marriage - well, a bona fide betrothal would do - at the end. I know it would seem more worthy if it were to win a barroom wager, or to get through a turn of Pictionary, but ... I appreciate the help! |
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14 Feb 07 - 12:08 AM (#1966961) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: wysiwyg I know it would seem more worthy if it were to win a barroom wager, or to get through a turn of Pictionary.... You don't want much, do you?!?!? Let's review-- you want the lady to win him at poker, AND you want him to win HER at Pictionary?!?!?!? In a Western? AND she has to be respectable? How about merely redeemable? :~) That would be La Femmme Nikita. (French version.) ~Susan |
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14 Feb 07 - 12:20 AM (#1966973) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,meself Susan - now, are you being deliberately comical, or ... ? I said "it", not "she". Meaning, "you might have more sympathy for me if I were trying to win a barroom wager, etc., rather than writing a nerdy paper." |
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14 Feb 07 - 12:34 AM (#1966975) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: michaelr So you're writing a paper on a premise you know nothing about, and you're asking an online forum to inform you. I invite Clinton Hammond to comment. Cheers, Michael |
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14 Feb 07 - 12:46 AM (#1966980) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,meself Cheers to you too. |
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14 Feb 07 - 02:48 AM (#1967030) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: Big Al Whittle The Big Country Gregory Peck marries the schoolmarm insread of the spoiled rancher's daughter. |
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14 Feb 07 - 02:56 AM (#1967031) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,heric "Bring my nephew here, my dear, before you go into the house." At this, Molly, stepping out of the carriage, squeezed her husband's hand. "I knew that she would be lovely," she whispered to him. And then she ran to her aunt's arms, and let him follow. He came slowly, hat in hand. The old lady advanced to meet him, trembling a little, and holding out her hand to him. "Welcome, nephew," she said. "What a tall fellow you are, to be sure. Stand off, sir, and let me look at you." The Virginian obeyed, blushing from his black hair to his collar. Then his new relative turned to her niece, and gave her a flower. "Put this in his coat, my dear," she said. "And I think I understand why you wanted to marry him." After this the maid came and showed them to their rooms. Left alone in her garden, the great-aunt sank on a bench and sat there for some time; for emotion had made her very weak. Upstairs, Molly, sitting on the Virginian's knee, put the flower in his coat, and then laid her head upon his shoulder. "I didn't know old ladies could be that way," he said. "D' yu' reckon there are many?" "Oh, I don't know," said the girl. "I'm so happy!" |
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14 Feb 07 - 04:25 AM (#1967076) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: alanabit "The Man who shot Liberty Valance". James Stewart's suicide attempt is successfully foiled by John Wayne. He promptly thanks him by running off with the bird John Wayne was planning to marry! |
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14 Feb 07 - 04:39 AM (#1967085) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: Elmer Fudd The Frisco Kid, with Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford |
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14 Feb 07 - 07:40 AM (#1967202) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: Bee Can't remember the title, but one with middle aged cowboy John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn as middle-aged lady preacher. They bicker through movie, fall in love, fade to sunset. |
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14 Feb 07 - 08:29 AM (#1967254) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: JennyO I think that would be "Rooster Cogburn". |
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14 Feb 07 - 09:17 AM (#1967313) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,meself Good, good - keep'm coming gang; I know the perfect one is out there - |
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14 Feb 07 - 09:26 AM (#1967320) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: Alec Calamity Jane ends with a double wedding,though how many of the parties are "respectable" would be a moot point. |
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14 Feb 07 - 09:33 AM (#1967328) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: Scrump Didn't the Lone Ranger and Tonto ride off into the sunset together and live happily ever after? ... I'll get me coat. |
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14 Feb 07 - 09:49 AM (#1967344) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,meself Here, let me help you with that ... |
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14 Feb 07 - 09:57 AM (#1967357) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: Wesley S I remember that in "The Magnificent Seven" the young hispanic character rides back into town to hookup with the local girl. Marrage isn't mentioned but in that era and culture I'm sure we can assume that marrage was in their future. |
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14 Feb 07 - 10:23 AM (#1967386) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: RangerSteve "Westward the Women", about bringing brides west to a bunch of love-starved ranch hands. I haven't seen it in years, but I remember it as one of the best western movies ever made. And "The Hanging Tree", which doesn't end with a wedding, but you know it's going to happen. |
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14 Feb 07 - 10:46 AM (#1967418) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: McGrath of Harlow I'm sure one of the brides in Seven Brides is a schoolmarm. Anyway, they are all very respectable, in spite of appearances. But my impression is that its more typical for the saloon girls to be the ones who get married at the end and turn respectable. The schoolmarms are more likely to go off the rails a bit along the way, even if they do end up married to the hero in the end. |
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14 Feb 07 - 11:02 AM (#1967434) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: Wesley S Ask yourself - who would you rather marry? The respectable schoolmarm or the recovering saloongirl with the "heart of gold". |
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14 Feb 07 - 11:10 AM (#1967443) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: wysiwyg GUEST,meself-- Yes, I took unfair liberties with a loosely constructed sentence seen while half-asleep. ~S~ |
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14 Feb 07 - 11:17 AM (#1967460) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: robomatic Merrill Wilson The Music Man No wide-eyed, eager, Wholesome innocent Sunday school teacher for me. That kinda girl spins webs no spider ever-- Listen, boy-- A girl who trades on all that purity Merely wants to trade my independence for her security. The only affirmative she will file Refers to marching down the aisle. No golden, glorious, gleaming pristine goddess-- No sir! For no Diana do I play faun. I can tell you that right now. I snarl, I hiss: How can ignorance be compared to bliss? I spark, I fizz for the lady who knows what time it is. I cheer, I rave for the virtue I'm too late to save The sadder-but-wiser girl for me. No bright-eyed, blushing, breathless baby-doll baby Not for me. That kinda child ties knots no sailor ever knew. I prefer to take a chance on a more adult romance. No dewy young miss Who keeps resisting all the time she keeps insisting! No wide-eyed, wholesome innocent female. No sir. Why, she's the fisherman, I'm the fish you see?--PLOP! I flinch, I shy, when the lass with the delicate air goes by I smile, I grin, when the gal with a touch of sin walks in. I hope, and I pray, for a Hester to win just one more "A" The sadder-but-wiser girl's the girl for me. The sadder-but-wiser girl for me. |
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14 Feb 07 - 11:39 AM (#1967491) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: McGrath of Harlow Nothing wrong with "schoolmarms". |
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14 Feb 07 - 12:15 PM (#1967539) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,Bobbijo All westerns prior to the 1960s had happy endings. The revisionist westerns which, I believe, began with Little Big Man, killed all that-- thankfully. Now, in this age of Deadwood, we no longer expect it, but go back and watch some of the old ones. They all end well, or pretty well, anyway. And who doesn't love a good cowboy song? |
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14 Feb 07 - 12:39 PM (#1967569) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,meself I don't know the melody those lyrics from Music Man go to, but they would make great rap lyrics, with a little cussin' added in. If there's no one within earshot, give it a try. |
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14 Feb 07 - 02:54 PM (#1967683) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: GUEST,meself Okay, mission accomplished - thanks for all the input. I'm heading off to Halifax for the East Coast Music Awards, now, but feel free to carry on! |
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14 Feb 07 - 03:06 PM (#1967694) Subject: RE: BS: Western with happy ending From: John MacKenzie Texas Across the River. G |