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A 5 page paper which evaluates how the John Sturges’ film does and does not reflect the cowboy mentality embodied by Theodore Roosevelt in terms of theme examination, scenes representative of American culture, portrayal of women and ethnic minorities, and other subtle nuances in dialogue and character. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Cowboys have been typically portrayed as uncompromising personifications of strength, courage, and conviction that represent quintessential American individualism. The cowboy mentality, or sticking to ones guns (principles) by
defending them to the death has existed since the days of Daniel Boone. But it was Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders that glamorized the image of the frontier
hero for contemporary Americans. In his text, Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, Richard Slotkin (1993) argues that after 1893, the frontier had been reduced
to "a set of symbols that constituted an explanation of history. Its significance as a mythic space began to outweigh its importance as a real place" (p. 61).
It is precisely this mythic space that filled movie screens in the fall of 1960 with the release of John Sturges The Magnificent Seven. A uniquely American interpretation of
Japanese director Akira Kurosawas 1954 classic, Seven Samurai, this version considers the conflict between the preconceived notions of what a cowboy should be and the reality that he is not
a perfect ideal but simply a flawed human being that struggles in most instances to do the right thing. The film is clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy
for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulnerabilities and self-doubts. For example, one of the seven cowboys contracted by Mexican villagers to protect them from the
bandit Calvera and his gang is Lee, a fugitive on the run that acknowledges his fears in a way that would have made Teddy Roosevelt cringe (The Magnificent Seven, 1995).
Then, there is Chris, the leader of the cowboys, who possesses a greater social conscience than he does ego. When he notices that an Indian is being denied
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