![]() These themes of identity and morality would come to dominate his film Wyatt Earp, released in the summer of 1994. ![]() What kind of person am I going to be?- Lawrence Kasdan, Wired. They’re questions of identity and morality, you know. The attraction of Westerns is, it was a brand new land with no rules, so people had to decide how they were going to be in that landscape, and some people decided one way and some decided the other, and people like Wyatt Earp were caught in the middle. In fact, one might contend that no screenwriter in the last 50 years has better captured American masculinity.Īs he explained in an interview with Wired, Kasdan said he was attracted to the vast openness represented by the Old West and the unlimited possibilities for the characters one could create within that world. As the man who wrote Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Kasdan had made his name writing for iconic heroes. In the early-1990s, Lawrence Kasdan set out to make a historically accurate and wide-ranging film on Wyatt Earp. Not long after, the legend of Wyatt Earp began to grow. Shortly after his death, a biography of Earp was published. Corral, Arizona, where he and his brothers confronted a group of outlaws before a bloody shootout ensued. Most notable among those was a famous showdown at the O.K. Known to be fearless even in the face of a fight, history holds that Earp was never injured in a gunfight, despite his participation in several. But he’s best remembered for his time as a U.S Marshal. He lived from 1848 to 1929 and tried his hand at many different professions: prospector, gambler, saloon owner, brother manager, even street criminal. Wyatt Earp was an iconic lawman who helped bring order to the Wild West. In many ways, Earp became more legend than man. The accomplishments of the midwestern farmer turned U.S Marshall is often overstated and exaggerated to the level of myth. The story of Wyatt Earp is one of the most popular, and yet inaccurately accounted, in all American history.
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