High Noon Film Analysis

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Throughout our lives, it seems when we have no one else to help us, our most challenging problems occur leaving ourselves to use our wit and emotion to persevere. People can have test or a big game where we have teachers and coaches to help us prepare and succeed. However, in the movie, High Noon, a Marshall named Will Kane is faced with a challenge of an arriving Frank Miller looking to kill. In the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game", a hunger named Rainsford is deserted on a island after he fell off his yacht, and he would soon find out a sociopath with the unique taste for hunting down humans was out for him. With the two characters in these suspense-building products somewhat trapped we can take out many lessons and ideas from the action packed movie and short story. The movie, High Noon, and the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game, are alike and at the same time very different. In the movie, the old west town of Hadyville, New Mexico and the tropical Ship-Trap island in the short story are very similar. "Metric goes down to the desk...other …show more content…

"Street...more and more" (Foreman 332). After Will Kane with the help of Amy, his wife, take don Frank Miller and his gang, it is finally safe for people to come out. So many people that could have helped him started pouring out of there homes surrounding the gun fight, and it leads Will Kane to believe that a ton of people could have helped. This quote shows how the theme in the movie is that friends will abandoned you. "It has become too easy...bore than perfection" (Connell 220). The sociopath General Zarroff has been hunting the most dangerous and exotic animals in the world, but because he was so good a it, the hunt no longer seemed to give him any excitement. This lead to him having the idea of hunting humans, which lead to the hunting of Rainsford. The theme for the short story unlike High Noon is that perfection is

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