In many ways The Searchers can be seen as a predictable western film that incorporates many of the same storylines and elements that have previously been used. Producers and film companies repeated the same formulaic plots and ideas because they were well-received by audiences and so they were an easy way to ensure that the film would be successful. The Searchers follows many of these formulaic ideas. For example, the Indians are seen as savage and bloodthirsty. A common theme is when someone is murdered or kidnapped, and so a journey begins in order to find out who did it and how to get revenge. In The Searchers the Indian tribe (with the leader Scar) kidnaps a girl and this causes Ethan and Martin to go out looking for her for many years. Usually in westerns they portray the Indians from a distance and in a large group. The Searchers does this, but it also deviates and introduces a whole new concept. The Searchers spends some time showing the Indian tribe leader, Scar, up close and the viewer even gains a sense of his character which was previously unheard of in a western film. Even though The Searchers is an action movie, I could not help feel bored and disinterested with the movie. It was much too predictable and I felt like I had seen the movie about a thousand times before even though I have never even watched The Searchers. It definitely lacked an originality (from the gunfights to the same musical score playing throughout the entire movie) and I was left feeling uninspired.
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