Art of Film: Dead Man The Film Dead Man starring Jonny Depp, a classic western with cowboys, guns, horses, and Indians, I personally thought the film was quite strange, however I did enjoy the soundtrack, the single guitar with the unique patterns that matched the situations and motions perfectly, even though I am not a huge fan of westerns as a genre I will agree that the movie was pretty different from a normal westerns. In the beginning of the movie the main character William Blake (Johnny Depp) is shown on a train with other people like him, well dressed and proper, as the train takes us to Blakes destination the scenery goes from looking like a life filled prairie with fields and trees and slowly with each location it gets more and more desolate and alarming. Each time you see the changing landscapes it gives the notion that the longer you are on the train the closer to death you actually become giving a sense of panic to the audience that thinks where is William Blake going and what will happen at the end of the line. The train is the first mode of transportation that Blake uses in the movie, now the train could be a representation of the Greek Charon which is the boat that leads the newly dead spirits of the living across the river styx to the entrance of the underworld, my reasoning …show more content…
In this scene William Blake completes his transformative voyage he went from being a civilized man from Cleveland to a true Indian, and killer of white men. In the beginning of the movie the conductor says exactly what is going to happen at the end of the movie, like he has been through this whole thing before, as if William Blake has died and is in hell reliving this experience over and over again like all of this is happening all at the same time. So in the end you realize that William Blake has always been dead even from the very start of the