Rooster Cogburn - HMB

The film Rooster Cogburn puts a great emphasis on "the others." The alpha-male Cogburn is an ex Marshall who completes his journey with the help of a women, Eula, and a Native American boy, Wolf. The second wave Feminist Movement started in the early 1960's and continued through the 1970's. Rooster Cogburn was released in the middle of this movement in 1975. The feminist movement toward equel rights can be clearly seen in Eula the strong female lead of the film. Eula is not the average women seen in the Western genre, she is strong willed and puts up just as much of a fight as the men. This is proven when she shoots one of the men who helped kill her father. She shows equality or even dominance over Cogburn by always having the last word, something he notes at the end of the film when she rides off into the distance. An ending scene normally reserved for the alpha male cowboy.