High Noon, a movie directed by Fed Zinnemann, used a whole set of techniques he inherited from other filmmakers to make his point and help get the story across. We will be looking at Narrative elements, camera/editing techniques, and elements of the presentation.
             One of the film makers that influenced Fred Zinnemann is Robert Flaherty. Flaherty wrote Zinnemann a letter in 1931 and as a result Zinnemann received a job at MGM. Flaherty influenced Zinnemann in many ways while he worked there, but on that stood out to me is how Zinnemann learned to be uncompromising and to defend what he wanted to say, and not let anyone tell him differently.
             The reason this stood out is that I saw this in High Noon. The movie is presented in a way that was out of the norm for the 1950's. Usually, movies ended with the happy ending, with the marriage and then riding off into the sunset. Instead, this movie starts out backward. The Marriage and ride off into the sunset happens at the beginning of the movie. Which I am sure threw a lot of people off back in the 1950's.
             The Narrative elements of this film were excellent. I like how it starts with all the towns' people wishing the newly wed sheriff well as he retires and leaves town. They talk about how he cleaned up the town, and when word that Frank Miller is returning to town from jail, everyone that was supposedly his friend turned their backs when he needed them most. Throughout the movie, it shows peoples reason's for turning their backs. For example, the Bartender had a grudge against will Kane because he drove away all of his business when he cleaned up the town.
             It is funny how will Kane made the town respectable and fixed it up. He sacrificed a lot for this town, and when he asks for help back everyone, even his close friends turn their backs. The way Zinnemann had will Kane going all over town asking for help, and the reasons the towns people give a fairly legitimate and by ...