Best Western international is the largest hotel company operating under a single company brand name with 4,200 independently owned and operated hotels. Western employed over 1,076 people and offers more than 316,095 quality guest rooms located in 80 countries and territories throughout the world. The Western founded in 1946 by M.K. Guertin, a California-based hotelier with 23 years of experience in the lodging industry. By 1963, Best Western was the largest chain in the industry with 699 member hotels
services offered in hotels and the different expectations that certain guests have in their stay. First I looked at the services of a Best Western hotel. There are so many Best Westerns across the country, but they all have about a 2-3 star rating. I chose a couple random hotels and looked at what they had to offer. This isn’t the case with all locations, but many Best Westerns offer complimentary breakfast, high-speed internet, meeting rooms, pools, hot tubs, airport shuttles, and fitness centers. These
decision for them, since they generally didn’t know whether they would be able to support themselves at their new place. Many Wild West movies are set in the latter half of the 1900s. A “Western Film” is a film genre dedicated to this period in time, where Cowboys, Indians and Outlaws ran wild. The very first Western films showed in the 1890’s, these were; Annie Oakley, Bucking Broncho, Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Dance and Sioux Ghost Dance. They were trying to show audiences the “heroics” and the “bravery”
In 1938, Jed Buell was a movie producer who was well known for his black and white musical westerns, but all of his movies took on an odd twist. Jed Buell was known for his westerns with singing cowboys and he produced about twelve within a four year period. He was known to produce some unique and obscure movies, but he may be best known for his comical musical cult western; The Terror of Tiny Town (O 'Connor and Rollins 65). This movie is the world’s first and only know movie to feature an all
American western films took over Hollywood filmmaking from 1920 to 1960. Most all classic western movies carry the same themes throughout the movies. Heroic, masculine figures who are law-abiding enforcers, but also quick with a gun control the atmosphere of their western town. The movie My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) encapsulates the western genre, and goes down in history as one of the best westerns ever made. After Wyatt Earp and his brothers stumble upon the town of Tombstone while to
violent intentions. The Western also had other iconic figures that populated the Old West, the lawman, in contrast to the gunslinger, had a different weapon to yield, the law. In the frontier, his belief in law and order as well as knowledge and education, brought civility to the untamed frontier. The Western was and still is the “essential American film genre, the cornerstone of American identity.” (Holtz p. 111) There is a strong link between America’s past and the Western film genre, documenting
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and The Wild Bunch (1962) are both critically acclaimed western films, regarded as some of the best in their genre. They are both different however in their portrayal of the western myth and the characters therein. This essay will compare and contrast these movies focusing on firstly their depiction of the national identity and mythology of the old west. Secondly, it will look at the differences of the portrayal of different character types, with specific reference
Ford's late-'20s films, occasionally under the name Duke Morrison. It was Ford who recommended Wayne to director Raoul Walsh for the male lead in the 1930 epic Western The Big Trail, it was a failure at the box office, but the movie showed Wayne's potential as a leading actor. During the next nine years, be busied himself in a multitude of B-Westerns and serials — most notably Shadow of the Eagle in between occasional bit parts in larger features such as Warner Bros.' Baby Face. But it was in action roles
The Western Subjectivity Thought Since modern times subjectivity thought has been one of the fundamental contents and the significant achievements of western philosophy. It is faced with many difficulties in its development process and has been declared to "have died", but I think that it indeed still has bright prospects of development. 1. Historical Development of Western Subjectivity Thought The word "subject" comes from the Latin word " subjectum ", which means something in front,
first released, the western genre was on a decline, yet their influence on the film industry remained. The screenwriter for Lethal Weapon, Shane Black, claimed, “What I was looking to do at that time was write an urban western.” That in mind, Lethal Weapon shows many characteristics common to Westerns. It has an emphasis on scenery, upholding the law, and powerful, can-do-anything protagonists. Lethal Weapon most importantly displays attributes in Riggs similar to classic Western heroes. The epitome
Ever since the early 20th century, there had been several attempts and experimentation in creating a new genre of cinema known as the Western. The first well-known Western movie The Great Train Robbery (1903), while not necessarily being the first ever Western, it is by both film historians and theorists definitely considered the pinnacle of the genre, that got it all started and that would be the first step in creating others similar to it, but also very different. Because it was still an unknown
Traditional Western and Disney Ideals as Seen in Mulan Fairy tales have been a long tradition in almost all cultures, starting as oral traditions to and gradually evolving into written texts intended for future generations to enjoy. Today, a common medium for relaying these ancient stories is through animation. The Walt Disney Company is probably the most well known for its animated portrayals of many classic fairy tales. These fairy tales are considered, by fairy tale researcher Justyna Deszcz
film Unforgiven is often called a “new” or “revisionist” Western because it is part of a group of films that revitalized the Western genre in the early nineties and because it provides a narrative about the Western within its storyline. Previou s Western films focused on the story of the lone outlaw while he seeks revenge for the wrongs done to him and for his version of the American Dream. They fall right into the stereotype of the Western in many ways: fantastic gun skills, revenge quests, Indian
Genre Theory and John Ford's Stagecoach The analytic theory posited by Robert Warshow in his essay "The Westerner", itemizes the elements necessary for a film to belong to the genre of the "western". Most contentiously, he mandates that the narrative focus upon the individual hero's plight to assert his identity, and diminishes the importance of secondary characters and issues, or any tendency toward "social drama." (431) He states that it is subtle variations that make successive instances
The western is one of my personal favorite genres, not in the sense that I particularly like it but because it was one of the categories of movies I was raised on. I watched a host of John Wayne’s westerns, somewhere around two dozen, along with a few other movies from the genre. I still enjoy some of Wayne’s films, though I haven’t seen them in their entirety in years. What I’m trying to say is, I was excited to watch “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” a purported classic of the genre. And while
The Wild Bunch is Western genre film that showcases phenomenal directing, editing techniques, revolutionary cinematography and action like no other Western film produced to date. In this film critique, the author will analyze The Wild Bunch through the lens of the genre theory. Genre theory is the application of studying films in order to allow viewers to categorize the films into different groups before they even watch the film. Genre is a type or category of film that allows viewers to have certain
the perfect example of a classic American Western genre film. The film blends American political and gender role ideologies with the classic genre conventions of a Western help Rio Bravo to deliver its somewhat understated message. I believe that the film does indeed conform to a certain type of narrative structure expected by other films of this style. This film, through and through, is a Western, even starring one of biggest names in Hollywood Westerns, John Wayne. We’re thrown into a world of
violence in Western films and uses two films from the Western genre to illustrate various uses of violence. According to Scott (2007), the Western has been a popular genre since films were first produced. Their character and depth of meaning have evolved and matured. There are less of them than in earlier decades but they have influenced other genres. Violence as well as other eventual clichés of the genre has been part of the Western and other genres from earliest times. Westerns feature strong
Hondo is my favorite western, although it is the only one I have read that has nothing to do with it. It has all of the requirements to be a western, the type of western that focuses on the untamed frontier. I mean it has conflicts between the settlers and the Indians, open landscape of mountain ranges, rugged lands, and vast plains; all with with small towns (or town) and isolated homesteads. Plus the parts of the untamed frontier such as, hostile environments, shoot outs, show downs, and the classic
that challenged the idea of the Western. They questioned how earlier Western films portrayed the American Indian. The men in the film were both on an educational journey to see how whites treated the American Indian and how brutal that treatment was. Little Big Man was a violent farce on the depiction of how the atrocities to the American Indian people felt from their end. On the other hand Dead Man was a dark counter western that questioned the same in how Westerns depicted American Indians and “trace