Doc Boone is usually pretty drunk throughout most of the movie so most of what he says isn't found to be very meaningful, except for his line "Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization". This line was from a scene at the end of the movie where Ringo and Dallas are riding off together. This line meant that, because both Dallas and Ringo were outcasts and not very well respected that maybe if both of them got married and moved away they would be "saved" from having to deal with their social status and everyone else.
An important scene of the movie and my favorite was when the stagecoach was under attack by the Indians and they needed to defend themselves. In this scene the 180 rule was broken, but you didn't even notice it because your attention was on the action happening with the characters. Also in this scene everyone wants to see the stagecoach victorious against the Indians, because you are attached to those characters and never get to know any of the indians so when one gets killed no one really cares.
The main conflict in westerns is civilization vs. wilderness. I think that the civilization side was victorious in this film, in many ways. One way is to say the Indians represented the wilderness and the people on the stagecoach represented civilization, civilization is victorious here because the Indians are run off and the stagecoach escapes. Another example of civilization being victorious is say that civilization represented members of higher social class, and in the film the only characters that are respected are the members of the higher social class.
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Luke: I used the same quote as you that Doc Boone said because I was thinking the same things about how Ringo and Dallas are "saved" and I also agree about the 180 rule being broken. I have yet to see a movie where it really affects how I see things...One more thing is that I sort of think that wilderness won in a way in the end. I think of Dallas and Ringo as more of the wilderness side since they weren't a respected part of society and I think that they won in the end since they got away.
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