Homework1:Genre + Narrative Structure (Propp&Todorov)

The western genre is mainly emphasised by the protagonist's clothing - Clint Eastwood wears a sheriff badge, cowboy boots (with which he lights a match), and a wide-brimmed cowboy hat as well as many other stereotypical cowboy clothes.
The mise-en-scene links into the genre very well too - it follows the constant theme of quickly-built wooden establishments that the majority of cowboy films adopt, a horse is seen and thus the main method of transport for cowboys is introduced, and finally, the end of the clip takes place in a bar/saloon, which is another common occurrence in westerns.
There are also other events that take place which follow the strong conventions set for the western genre, such as the gunfight and the casual attitude toward the stranger's death.

Clint obviously plays the role of the hero in this clip, but there isn't a princess role involved (although it could be represented by Clint's goal of revenge). The villain roles are clearly played by Clint's earlier attackers, and the other roles are played by the civilians and the policemen, and the horse could represent the donor, as it helped Clint discover the villain.
The equilibrium is shown at the beginning of the clip - when Clint is wandering through town; the disruption is his discovery of the horse with 'JED' inscribed on its saddle; and the restoration follows the shoot-out in the bar, when Clint gets the witnesses to put what they saw into writing.