Englishman’s Boy Flashcards
Englishman’s boy is not really English but is?
A boy who works for an englishman
Hardwick
Leader of the wolfers. A big influence on the EB gave him his horse, guns & cowboy status.
What’s a “wolfer”
A man who hunts wolves - a wolf hunter
1870s straddles these 2 countries
Canada & America
1920s set in this town
Holywood
The one writing the story
Harry Vincent
Harry’s Jewish friend
Racheal gold
Harry works for chance studio’s by the studio head:
Damon chance
Englishman’s boy is the same character in the 1920s as
Shorty mcAdoo
1870s - Battle Creek, cypress hills
Wolfers attack Assiniboine camp & rape, beat, tie up a native girl & burn her to death as Englishman’s boy was a bystander
Shirty McAdoo
EB is a retired western actor goes by shorty now
Harry Vincent
A disabled screen writer who works for chance - interviewed shorty about his biography to write a screen play about reality of life in the American west
Shorty & massacre
Haunted by his participation in it - not the civilized man he thought himself to be - tells harry about the horrific events such as the rape & killing of the native girl.
Damon Chance
Movie director - believes movies will show ppl a true reflection of themselves & the world - undermined the truth of the story - quest was to demonstrate that the American conquest was inevideble & correct
Chance being racist
His movie instead of showing the destruction, hopelessness, & loss of a culture through violence, shows that native people had it coming bc the weak always lose & strong always win
