The Telescope, the Rifle, and the Camera: Maliglutit's Unfaithful Remake of The Searchers and the Singularity of Inuit Cinema
The visual unconscious of The Searchers is mediated by its anti-hero protagonist Ethan Edwards, played by John Wayne. Ethan operates at the centre of the visual field of the film from beginning to end. The film opens with a shot of his sister-in-law, Martha (Dorothy Jordan), seeing him walking in from the desert, while gradually the rest of her family, including the dog, come out of the homestead to see him. With the wind blowing into the faces of Martha’s children, Ben (Robert Lyden) and Lucy (Pippa Scott), it’s almost as if seeing Ethan has physical effects. Between the film’s end an...
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