'Paint Your Wagon\r'

'Paint Your coaster wagon (1969) is a musical characterization adaptation of the format play musical of the same title by Lerner and Lowe. The film is set in California during the silver-rush time and stars the Lee Marvin as Ben Rumson, Clint Eas bothod as â€Å"Pardner” (Julio in the stage play) and Jean Seaberg as Elizabeth. The movie exposit how a small tent-city (No-Name-City) becomes suddenly populated when Ben (Marvin) discovers gold in the soil. The story is complicated by the reaching of other characters such as the Mormon with deuce wives †one of which he auctions off (Elizabeth) to Ben.A love trigon forms when Ben leaves to kidnap seven â€Å"French tarts” from a populate town and leaves Elizabeth in the c be of Pardner. The two at last fall in love and comes up with a strange arrangement of sorts by means of Elizabeth’s convince argument that if a man outhouse possess two wives, surely a woman can have two husbands. Everything bodes well until the gold starts to dwindle and in desp date of referencetion, Ben and the other miners decide to mine under(a) the buildings believing that gold is dropping through the floorboards.This eventually leads to the destruction of the town, the abandonment of the settler’s and Ben’s renewed search for prospective land. The movie offers a (musical and colorful) window into the phenomenon known as the North-the Statesn western marge that occurred as a result of North-America’s impertinently attained independence and the formation of the United States. The movie, through its comical portrayal of the gold-rush, demonstrated the Laissez-faire or free trade trend of modern American economics.This is demonstrated by the free and unregulated tendency of settlers of the town of No-Name-City who are all looking for gold. The deliverance during this time was one of risk taking and speculation, which accounts for the migratory behavior of settlers and prospecto rs, risking resources traveling through the great plains of America in search of fortune and lands to reclaim (Effects of the American Frontier). Another aspect of the enclosure era that the movie offers a window to is in the area of political sympathies and social tolerance.The movie offers a glimpse on Frontier politics through the portrayal of how the settlers of No-Name-City handle order. The movie demonstrates how the political system can be individualized, with people and leaders dealing with situations as they are encountered and making the best of the situation (Effects of the American Frontier). amicable tolerance in the movie is demonstrated in the way that cultures and races can freely mix in the settlements formed in the movie (e. g. the mixing of Mormons, Americans, French etc. ).This is highly representative how the barrier era was highly racially and culturally tolerant. Lastly the movie also offers a glimpse into the stature of women during the frontier era. Thi s is demonstrated through the character of Elizabeth. Though in the beginning of the movie her character was marginalized, even reduce to mere property (through the auctioning) she establishes that women are somewhat passable in status with men when she manages to convince the two male protagonists that she likewise can also returns of â€Å"privileges” reserved for men in the way that she too can have two husbands.This is reflective of how, during the frontier era women were treated as practically equals since in the wild west, with nature offering constant challenges to the subsidence population, women were expected to perform roles similar to those of men (Effects of the American Frontier). Work Cited â€Å"Effects of the American Frontier. ” Cyberessays. com. 11 celestial latitude 2008 <http://www. cyberessays. com/History/158. htm>\r\n'