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Sergeant Rutledge Essay

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For the purpose of this assignment, I watched “Sergeant Rutledge “the first big budget American Technicolor Western and military feature film which is directed by John Ford in a 1953. The film has a run time around 1 hr51minutes and the film story mainly involves around the court-martial of 1st Sgt. The story of Braxton Rutledge told through a series of flashbacks that expanding the testimony of witnesses that give a clear narrative of the events accused of raping and murdering a white teenage daughter. Braxton Rutledge (Strode) was the main part of the Ninth U. S. Cavalry unit is called the “buffalo soldiers” which is black soldiers; most of them released from slaves led by a white officer. Even if woody strode actively plays the role of …show more content…

During that time, he got many recognition form their audience. Nothing seems to be off balance. Due to the storyline is very clear and the characters also suitable for their proper roles, my investigation was easily to get important information from film including what is Title character, who is the main character and what one’s role in the film is. Rutledge film the background music is the character voices and sounds are balanced and has very well organized system or do not overrun each other. The cinematography and powerful iconography make the film more interesting and attract the audience attention. The good example of Low lights used heavily in this film is the signaling of the start of flashbacks where the lights are lowered in the courtroom. The camera some time over shoots images in the film carried the emotions throughout the film. During watching this film, I was a little bit confuse due to weak organize camera setting, In the middle part of the film When the sergeant Rutledge was tied up in a chair and majority of the screen is covered his shoulder due to this reason I didn’t see what was going on beyond that

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