My Darling Clementine A Film That Follows The Classic...

My Darling Clementine (1946) is a film that follows the classic semantics and syntactics of an original western film through the common traits, attitudes, characters, shots and locations that attribute to the building blocks of the Western genre. My Darling Clementine also includes syntactic elements that incorporate the genres fundamental grammar and the structure into which building blocks are placed. This can be compared and contrasted with the film Unforgiven which represents the revisionist western. The revisionist western includes a less idealistic and more morally ambiguous structure of film. Alcohol, the characteristics and the role of women, and the appearance and features of men can all be compared and contrasted throughout the two films. While My Darling Clementine fits into the classical semantics and syntax of the Western genre, Unforgiven explores the role of women, men and alcohol in a new way in which reversal of the traditional subject. Alcohol: My Darling Clementine: In the film, My Darling Clementine, alcohol is seen mainly throughout the saloon. The saloon is a typical iconography of the scenes seen throughout the typical/classic Western film. The saloon is seen as a meeting place for men as well as a place for duel between opposing sides. The idea of the saloon as a meeting place to consume and mingle with alcohol can be seen as a ritual approach to the Western genre. This means that the functions of the saloon are seen as a shared myth, in which