removes his watch and throws it on the ground. I found this indicative of his pursuit of freedom‚ because time serves only to constrain us. Once on the road you learn that their names are Wyatt and Billy‚ an obvious reference to Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid who are considered American legends‚ as well as outlaws. Wyatt rides a chopper with the stars and stripes on the gas tank and on his helmet while sporting the now
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This action-packed western portrays the legendary feud between the Earp’s and the Clanton’s. For the most part I believe it to be a respectable movie containing a powerful storyline. This film portrays the life and times of the famous cowboy‚ Wyatt Earp‚ focusing on what led to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Tombstone provides a mixture of both fact and fiction‚ however I believe this film to be mainly accurate. After seeing this particular film‚ I have resulted in finding some of the accurate
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Cited: McReynolds‚ Douglas J. “Alive and Well: Western myth in Western Movies: Literature/Film Quarterly‚ 26.1 (1998): 46-52. Proquest. Web. 15 Oct 2013. Ware‚ David. "Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend." History 26.4 (1998): 205-6. ProQuest. Web. 25 Oct. 2013. "Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend." Publishers Weekly 253.9 (2006): 50. ProQuest. Web. 25 Oct. 2013. Gentile‚ Douglas; Walsh‚ David‚ A normative study of
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Curly Bill Brocuis (Powers Boothe) and his band of Cowboys slaughter innocent people at a wedding. Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) and his brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton) arrive in Tombstone‚ Arizona. The men hope to settle down with their wives and start a new life‚ this time without having to keep the law. When Wyatt Earp arrives‚ he meets long time friend and partner Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer). The two start talking about their past travels‚ and it is implied that Holliday is dying
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written by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Although Wyatt never published his poems‚ several‚ including "Whoso List to Hunt‚" appeared in the 1557 edition of the printer Richard Tottel’s Songs and Sonnets written by the Right Honorable Lord Henry Howard late Earl of Surrey and other‚ more briefly referred to as Tottel’s Miscellany. "Whoso List to Hunt" is held to be Wyatt’s imitation of "Rime 190‚" written by Petrarch‚ a fourteenth-century Italian poet and scholar. In "Whoso List to Hunt‚" Wyatt describes a hunt wherein
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work however can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Petrarch whose poetry was about the idealistic approach to love‚ caused for several Renaissance writers to revisit them and translate them to represent different meanings. Basically‚ Sir Thomas Wyatt in his poem "The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbour" and Henry Howard‚ Earl of Surrey in his poem "Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought‚" both explored the varying view of the original poem created by Petrarch. Their views on the
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On a cold damp hallows eve three children Avon‚ Wyatt‚ and Cynthia stood before a forested wood‚ each tired from a night of trick or treating‚ Avon is the first to speak “What’s the haul guys?” he says‚ “about 10 pounds of pure sugar” Cynthia chimes “wanna scare some kids since we are near the haunted woods” they all look at each other with evil grins that would burn the soul out of any who watched and then burst out with laughter. “Ok lets go.” Cynthia says leading the boys into the forest on a
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Arizona Territory. Although only three men were killed during the gunfight‚ it is regarded to be one of the most famous gunfights in the Old West. The Gunfight was quite unknown to the public until 1931 when author Stuart Lake published a biography (Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshall) two years after Wyatt’s death. Lake retold his story in 1946 in a book that director‚ John Ford‚ developed into the movie My Darling Clementine. After the movie Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was released in 1957‚ the shootout
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In the movie Tombstone‚ Wyatt Earp was the only amigo that Doc Holiday ever had. So no matter when Wyatt was in trouble Doc was always there for him. For example the time all of Wyatts’ brothers were murdered and Wyatt took revenge on the people who did it. So‚ even though on his death bed‚ Doc Holiday‚ got up and went with Wyatt to help him slay them. This is one way that a friendship can form between two people. A further example of the friendship between Wyatt and Holiday was when the Dalton
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known as a sonnet. It is not just any type of sonnet‚ but actually a Petrarchan sonnet. The sonnet is constructed by an octave‚ which are two quatrains combined then a sestet following after that. It was one of the thirty sonnets written by Sir Thomas Wyatt‚ and was believed to be written for Anne Boleyn‚ the second wife of King Henry VIII and the woman he broke out of the Catholic Church for in order to marry. Since she was involved with Henry VIII‚ the poem is a warning to stay away from her due to
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