“Lone Star” is a modern day based western. Director John Sayles is one of the many great independent directors. “Lone Star” was made in 1996 so it is a more contemporary film. This film has a basic western theme. But it is set in the present day. It is set in a boarder town on the U.S./Mexico boarder like the film “Touch of Evil” by Orson Wells. There is a sheriff trying to solve a crime that has to do with his past. The crime has to do with him and his father, Buddy Dees, who was also a sheriff and is now dead, the mayor of the town, and a bartender, Ottise that is half black and half Native American. The film also goes through the sheriff's love life with a history teacher that he had been dating while he was in high school. Her mother owns a restaurant in the town and got to the U.S. by jumping the boarder. At the end of the film we find out that the sheriff's father, Buddy Dees, and the teacher's mother had a fling and that's how the teacher was born. So that makes the sheriff and the teacher brother and sister. The funnier thing about this is that they had sex and the sheriff said that it felt weird. The crime that the present sheriff has to deal with is the murder of another cop, Charley Wade. This
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At the end of the film they show that it was Charley Wade. Another theme in this film is history. It is very evident that he is the bad guy. He finally lets his son do what he wants and he is willing to let Ottise meet his grandson. ” There are some cool camera tricks used in this film. ” This is proven better at the end of the film when the sheriff finds out that he is the teacher, who he has had sex with's brother. The museum is to honor the Native tribes that helped the black people escape form their owners. One of the things that the director does is by making the guns that all the cops use old time six shooters. ” And this Native American makes references to not living on a reservation. ” There is also a time where the sheriff is at a bar and there are beer taps shaped like six shooters. They go through film history by making the film a western.
The main theme in this film was history. Another thing about this film is that it's a contemporary western. Another way is by employing story telling.
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