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The Language of Cinema
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My Darling Clementine (1946)
Clementine's script was written based on the historical records of the period when Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) was the marshal of Tombstone and his brothers were his deputies. The darkness of Ford's vision in the postwar period is portrayed as Dallas, the prostitute with a heart of gold, turns to Chihuahua, wearing the pendant James purchased for his fiancée. The confrontation between the Earps and the violent, nomadic Clantons creates the tension which becomes central theme of
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