Lone Star essays

Lone Star essays Lone Star is a modern day based western. Director John Sayles is one of the many great independent directors. Lone Star was made in 1996 so it is a more contemporary film. This film has a basic western theme. But it is set in the present day. It is set in a boarder town on the U.S./Mexico boarder like the film Touch of Evil by Orson Wells. There is a sheriff trying to solve a crime that has to do with his past. The crime has to do with him and his father, Buddy Dees, who was also a sheriff and is now dead, the mayor of the town, and a bartender, Ottise that is half black and half Native American. The film also goes through the sheriff's love life with a history teacher that he had been dating while he was in high school. Her mother owns a restaurant in the town and got to the U.S. by jumping the boarder. At the end of the film we find out that the sheriff's father, Buddy Dees, and the teacher's mother had a fling and that's how the teacher was born. So that makes the sherif f and the teacher brother and sister. The funnier thing about this is that they had sex and the sheriff said that it felt weird. The crime that the present sheriff has to deal with is the murder of another cop, Charley Wade. This cop was a low down murderer. He killed a Mexican in Mexico while he was trying to bring people to the United States. He was also making people pay him off so that he wouldn't end up taking them to jail. He was killed by Buddy Dees because he was going to kill Ottise the bartender. The mayor of the town was the other cop with Wade when he was murdered. The bartender has a son who is a Colonel in the army. He has a son that has never met his grandfather, the bartender. The bartender has a small museum in the club he owns. The museum is to honor the Native tribes that helped the black people escape form their owners. These Native Americans would help hide them by saying that the slaves ...