Julian Montoya Zapata Dynamics of interpersonal Relationships

High Noon

The Social Influence that have each of the character of High Noon depended in the personal information they conveyed, which increased the control over the other persons and sometimes over the situations in the movie.

Will Cane

In many ways the influence that men had in western genre has it easy. They are often tough as steal, and they can influence anyone and resolve any threat easily. While their opponents can be formidable, in the end these adversaries will be not quite as brave, tough, or good with a gun. That is what made the portrayal of the character of Will Kane so interesting in the 1952 film High Noon. As almost everyone is familiar with the this kind of western movies. The plot is a familiar enough one: the lawman of a small frontier town receives word that a bad man and sworn enemy have been released from jail and is en route to meet up with his gang. Revenge is promised and a showdown inevitable. But already Kane is reluctant to face this enemy.

Newly married to a Quaker wife, Kane only wants to retire from his position as Marshal and ride off with his bride, which he actually does at first despite the opinion of his friends. But he cannot instinctively, Kane knows that he will have to face his enemy, Frank Miller, eventually and he decides that he want do it at his home with a badge and a gun. In this movie Kane does not have the power to influence almost anyone, he cannot influence his old friends and even he cannot influence his new wife to stay with him. She is urging him to flee. His attempts to recruit deputies is an miserable failure and he cannot influence his current deputy will only help if he is promised the job of Marshal , a position Kane does not believe can do it. He cannot influence the town to help him. In fact the town unanimously decides to no to help him, despite the crimes Frank Miller has committed or the fact that collectively they outnumber his gang several times over they want Will Kane to take the fight elsewhere. They want no part of it.

Alone and betrayed, Kane is understandably terrified. He has lost his friends, his wife, and soon he is likely to loose his life as Miller is due to arrive by train at high noon. The actor in this movie does an excellent job of portraying Kanes fear without making him look cowardly. But despite having lost everything he refuses to run. Ultimately, he only can influence himself to be brave. He will face Frank Miller no matter how scared he is. In movies we are accustomed to seeing the hero face down and defeat armies of opponents as if it were merely a day at the office. That is what made High Noon special for its time. Will Kane is understandably fearful in facing a gang single handedly and knows he would likely face defeat, but he stays anyway. He also can influence a young boy and a blind middle age guy in town, but he does not want to put them in trouble.

Amy Kane

Amy Fowler Kane, is an obvious incarnation of a virginal girl. She seems that she cannot influence anyone. She is fair, gentle, and well-spoken. She also seems to have some stereotypes that characterize young brides from the East. She opposes her husband's profession and has already, when the film open, she already influenced his new husband to give up his job as lawman and move to another town to work in a store. Amy dislikes violence and insists that her husband avoid killing at any cost. A pacifist because she was a Quaker, Amy, until the last few minutes of the film, argues for and acts upon nonviolent premises. Her reasons for no violence are based not upon abstract principle. For as she tells Helen Ramirez, her father and brother were killed by guns. They were on the right side, but it didn't help them when the shooting started. Thus, Amy is a pacifism and her religion are grounded in personal experience. Just as Helen Ramirez transcends the limitations of her genre role, so does Amy, she listens hard to Helen's conviction about what a woman has to do to help her husband, and after driving to the railroad depot with Helen and boarding the train, she gets off immediately upon hearing the first shot in the gunfight between Will Kane and Frank Miller's gang, and comes back to town. There is where she encounters a dead member of the gang, Ben Miller, the first one to be killed. Then she enters the marshal's office from where, as the fight swirls about the streets, she shoots at point-blank range another. Here is where influence herself to stand by her man. After shooting the bad guys are back, she is seized by Frank Miller, who takes her into the street, using her as a shield and a decoy to draw out Will Kane. But Amys bravery saves her and her husband's life.

Mrs. Ramirez

Helen first impression is that she is experienced. Helen has been the girlfriend of three men: Frank Miller, the bad guy; Will Kane, the marshal; and Harvey Pell, the deputy. This gives her special, intimate knowledge that their actions and obviously she has a great influence in all of them: Miller is a criminal Kane is gentle and manly, and Harv is a boy with big wide shoulders but he is still a boy. Although she had certain influence in all of them, none of these men has been willing to marry her, and in the case of Will Kane it is not clear why their relationship came to an end. They both still care about each other, that is for sure. She fears Will's death; he wants her to leave town before Frank Miller returns. On the other hand, Helen shows a understanding of her relationship with the community, in what part of the movie she says: "I hate this town. I've always hated it. To be a Mexican woman in a town like this." Yet Helen has not let her position, maybe seen inferior, ruin her life. On the contrary, she feels pleasure on having power despite of her position. Clearly Helen has achieved revenge by gaining economic success against a society that does not like her. Helen's economic status explains several aspects the way that she influences people. As Will Kane dead, as she believes will be the case, she thinks that the town will die; this is the reason why she wants to leave. Helen's economic power is evident in her relationship with two older men. One person that she influences is something like her personal agent; she sends him on a couple of errands, and he seems to have as his main function the job of carrying out her business interests. The other man is a respectable businessman; in fact, he is summoned from church to hear what Helen has to say. He is the front man who operates the other business, the store, apparently under his name. Helen sells him her share at a fair price, and he clumsily praises her for being a fair and capable business woman, this is how she influenced him. Curious about the business that Helen's former relationship with Will Kane, Amy goes to Helen's room where Helen tells her, that there is no longer anything between herself and Kane. But she influences Amy to help Kane. She tells her that what she would do if Kane were her man: "I'd never leave here. I'd get a gun and I would fight". No character in the film, excepting Will Kane, possesses as much knowledge or as much integrity as Helen Ramirez. A woman who has been misused at the hands of men, she has developed into a strong resilient person of great dignity.

Frank Miller

Frank Miller is a wild killer that Kane had arrested and seen convicted, has been released by the people up North and that he is on the noon train for Haleyville. The three people that obviously Frank miller influenced were the Three of Millers associates, which go to the town and wait for him at the train depot, waiting for their boss to arrive. Another person that he seemed to have influenced is Helen Ramirez which is a former lover of him. The film keeps the exact details of much of its back story cloudy, but we know that Ramirez was first the lover of Miller, then turned her affections to Kane, and then roughly a year previous to Kanes marriage to Amy, that relationship ended and in the time between then and now she has taken deputy Harvey Pell as her latest lover. No one stands by Kanes side when Millers train comes to town. The one man whod agreed to help bails when he realizes no one else is coming. Kane stands alone and after nearly 60 minutes of everyone turning him down, Kane and the Miller gang start shooting up the town. It is a quick scene, not drawn out or overdone, and when it comes down to Kane against two, hes saved by his wife, Amy the pacifist Quaker, who picks up a gun inside the building shes in and shoots one of the gang members in the back. Frank Miller influenced so much his other three partners that they wanted to die for him. Another people that he influenced were politicians from up north because they legally pardoned Frank Miller.

They are many way in how we can influence other people as seen in the movie high Noon . Selfconcept is important because is how we are perceived and hold about them. Self-esteem is also important and it has to do with evaluations of self-worth. Some of the characteristics of the self are a result of inherited personality traits. In addition, the self-concept is created through messages from significant others and through social comparison with reference groups as in the case of Helen. The selfconcept is subjective and varies from the way a person is perceived by others. Helen was admired for some and disliked by other.. Other factors that affect how we influence other people is culture, and gender. Amy convinced Will to renounce his profession for her. Influencing power, as well as the selfconcepts of others, can be changed through self-fulfilling prophecies. Will knew that he could do the job done. After this, He would probably have more influence in the town. Identity management consists of strategic communication designed to influence.

The characters in the movie gave personal information for a variety of reasons and benefits either for self-clarification, self-validation, identity management, and more importantly social influence. The risks influencing people by self-disclosure included rejection, decline in relational satisfaction, a loss of

influence, and hurting the other person, as we saw for will in which he was rejected in the town and hurt his new wife.

Non-listening types displayed in the film

By watching the movie we can probably confirm the fact that poor listening is all too common. Although is understood that ineffective listening is inescapable and sometimes even understandable, nonlistening attitudes change the destiny of some of the characters in the movie.

Pseudolistening

Pseudolistening can be a mindless listening, and it may be a private matter in some of the characters in the movie, this happened when the acted as they were listening, but they were not, putting on to fool the speaker. For example: Many of the people on the church gave the appearance of being attentive. They were looking Kane in the eye; they may even nod and having an expression as if they were paying attention to him. But the show of attention is a polite position because their minds were somewhere Else. They did not want to listen what he was saying, they just want him out to prevent a massacre in the town. Paradoxically, If they would have listened to him, they could have resolve the altercate more easily.

Stage-Hogging

Stage-hogs in the movie were those with narcissistic positions that try to turn the topic of conversations to themselves instead of showing interest in the speaker, For example. The politician in which he was just thinking about himself and about his position. Even though he respected Will, he was not ready to put himself in a position of lower level, he was just thinking about himself. In the church, one thing that he did was changing the focus of the conversation from Will to himself. He interrupted Will preventing the audience ( the people from the town ) to learn potentially valuable information. This attitude damaged the relationship between the politician and Will.

Selective Listening

In the movie some characters responded only to the parts or remarks that interest them, rejecting everything else. When Will visits the bar where he knows he will find those that supported him in the past as well as those that supported Frank Miller the composition of each frame shows that the support there has swayed against him. While in the wedding scene the townspeople crowded around the Kanes in unity, the people in the bar create asymmetrical frames as they gather. We see that people only wanted to hear good news in the bar, when was his wedding. But they selected to not to talk to him when things were getting dangerously.

Communication Competence

Defining communication competence in the characters of the movie is not easy. The characters with better communication competence in the movie were those who achieved their individual goals in a manner that maintained or enhanced the relationship in which it occurs.

Will Kane

The position of Kane was very difficult because of the way that he was in that position. There was no real ideal way to communicate what he wanted to do. He had to influence people to pretty much risk their lives. His method of communication was very serious all the time, an always very straightforward. I think he lacked diplomatically in his way of communicated. But this probably would have reflected his own style and values. However, a very positive aspect of communication was commitment and his message was always sincere, he seemed to know what he was talking about, and demonstrate through words and deeds that they care about what they say when he came back to the town .

Amy Kane

Even though she was a Quaker, she was effective communicating her feelings. She was able to communicate in different ways depending of the situation and person to another, its a mistake to think she had only one communication trait that either has or does not have. She was quite skillfully with talking with the people of the town, for example, but she felt clumsy when she was interacting with people, wealthier or poorer, or more or less attractive than her. For example, when she was talking to

guy to buy a ticket, she seemed to be very clumsy. And when she was speaking with Helen, she was able to convince him to share intimate details of her past. She was able to adjust her competence with one person may vary from situation to situation. She was very assertive and effective with the way that she communicated.

Mrs. Ramirez

Helen was an excellent communicator simply by possessing a large range of communication skills that guaranteed her success. She had the ability to choose the best approach. For example, when she was selling her business, she was very good at convincing the guy that bough her store that she was a great business woman, and she could reach a fair deal. She recognizes how to communicate depending of the person because a response that works well in one setting would flop miserably in another one. For example, If she would communicate as a business woman to Amy, she would not have convince her to stand by her man. She evaluated the time and place that will almost always influence how she acted, as was in the case with her lover, in which she let her know affectively her feelings towards him. Her goal was determining the appropriate approach in situations in which she wanted to help another person. As sometimes offering advice is just what is needed as in the case of Amy. And she helped Amy to develop the ability to solve problems on her own. Her knowledge shaped the approach she took. She seemed to be always cautious and blunt. The social niche of the other party also influenced how she communicated. For instance she acted differently toward Will than her young lover. Likewise, she seemed to treat a man equally than a woman, even in this age of gender equity. She also seemed to show a lot of sympathy towards Amy

Harv the Deputy

Harv was unable to tolerate ambiguity; he was unable to become open-minded about his age and social differences. He had a natural tendency to view others choices choices as wrong when they do not match with what he was thinking. As when he thought the sheriff should leave the town and he quit as deputy. His motivation and willingness to communicate with Kane make him stay alone at the end. He is very immature. This is why hellen attacks Harveys manhood, telling him that she no longer wants him to touch her and that while hes got broad shoulders, it takes more than broad shoulders to make a man, and she doesnt think hell ever get there. The experience has taken a lot out of Kane and the men

who helped him as deputies, but where theyve decided enough is enough, Kane knows he has to keep fighting. His spirit is gone, however, and we see a him struggling to communicate his own ideals. Harvey, out of spite and jealousy. Bridges is fantastic in the movie as the spurned deputy whos been passed over by the towns leaders (and perhaps by Kane himself), whining, pouting, drinking, and fighting his way through the movie in a desperate bid for respect. When he confronts Kane in a stable, telling him to just leave if hes thinking about it, you might think this is the moment where Harvey comes around to Kanes side. Throughout the movie, hes clearly struggling with whats happening, and this fight between him and Kane is the kind of scene that triggers the two men to come back to the same side shows his lack of communication competence.

City Lights

Tramps self-concept

The tramps had a relatively stable set of perceptions that hold to himself. . Physically, he thought that he was not very attractive, but not ugly by any means. Despite of his social status, always tried to dress himself well, he always wearing a hat, coat and even a stick. His emotional states were very statics, he never seemed to have severe emotional swims. His talents were not very clear in the movie. He seemed to be street smart and always trying to get the best of the situations.

He did not seem to have a very high self-esteem. But he was expected to be accepted by others, as it is show in his relationship with the drunken guy, in which he wanted to be accepted him. On the other hand, those who dislike themselves are likely to believe that others wont like them either. He sometimes was worried if others would constantly view him critically. He only was hostile toward others when others down. Like the newspapers kids, he was hostile towards him because he thought he deserved respect. When he had money, he had an exaggerated self-esteem may think him make better impressions on others and have better romantic lives with the blind girl. It is easy to see how he upset the butler with his inflated sense of self-worth because his come across as condescending personality.

He probably had feeling of superiority when he was the rich guy and inferiority by his job as swiping the street of his city. His social comparison provided him a way to decide if we are the same as or different others. He depended greatly on the opinions of others. That is why he went to fight in the boxing ring

instead just being honest. However, he did care about the blind girl and this is why he jeopardizes his health. He saw himself important to her. He had a distorted feedback from society which makes him have unrealistically goals.

The perceived of himself was a reflection of his self-concept. He perceived himself as the person he believes himself to be in moments of honest self-examination. He was very aware of his social position and this was his perceived himself private, because it was unlikely he would reveal all of it to another person or his significant other. In contrast to the perceived himself a public image, and it was different t and he presented himself in the way that he wanted others to view him. He presented himself as a loving partner, conscientious worker, loyal friend, and so on although all this faces were genuine. The social norms of his city probably often create a gap between what he perceived and how he presented himself.

Ultimately, the tramps self-concept is a relatively stable. His self-worth was that he was worthy of the love of blind girl but it changed probably when he saw her again because he tries to run when she tries to give him some money. The self-concept is changed in him by the messages from significant others and by social comparing himself with reference groups. Although himself evolves over The movie, his self-concept resists changing. He was pretty much at the same social status or worst after he went out of the jail. His identity management aimed at presenting to others one or more faces, which may be different from private, spontaneous behavior that occurred outside of others presence, especially in the presence of the blind girl. He engaged in creating an identity by managing his manners, appearance, and the settings in which they interact with others. By choosing which one he present it was no need be dishonest. He acknowledge the risks of self-disclosure include the possibility of rejection by the blind girl, making a negative impression, a decline in relational satisfaction, a loss of influence, and hurting the other person as seen at the end of the movie.

Non-Verbal Communication

In the last scene of the movie, they were many nonverbal communication expressed by nonlinguistic means such as their body movement, touch, appearance, physical space. He was extremely happy to see her. Then he tried to run away meaning that he did not want to know the truth. She on the other hand thought it was funny, she made fun of him. In their body movements, she started to move less

when she realized that he was the man that she felt in love and her shoulders went down showing disappointment. They did not touch physically, showing that they were comfortable in that situation. Her appearance, she seemed to be successful, she was wearing jewelry and fine clothes. On the other hand, the tramp looked abandoned, and his clothes showed that he was in serious economical problems.

Perceptual errors

The blind girl had many perceptual errors that shaped the way she saw the tramp. First she stereotyped him. She used social schemes to make generalizations and predictions him. Because be perceived that he had a car and give her money, she thought he was a millionaire. She had very little involvement with him, making her invest emotionally without know him very well. She based his perception of him based in the personal experiences that she had with him. In which they were always positive and her expectations were always very high, in which they were disconnected at the end.

In this movie speech was not how the Tramp really expressed of himself. The tramp is always judged on his appearance, is homeless and without true friends or family, and interacts with the world mostly through his actions. His only friendships are with people who don't or can't see him: with a drunken millionaire who does not recognize him when he sobers up, and with a blind girl. His homeless appearance sets him apart and cues people to avoid and stereotype him; a tramp is not simple one of us but she show otherwise to the blind girl.

Fever Pitch

Joharis Window

This represents the information of which both Ben and the Lindsey are aware. From the beginning she knew that he was a teacher that would make less money than her. She knew that h he was funny. He knew that she was successful and intelligent

This presents the blind area: information of which Lindsey or Ben was unaware but of which the other person is aware. They learn about information in the blind area primarily through feedback from others. This is when they were to the park and they started to know more about each other.

This part represents the hidden area which is the information that you know but arent willing to reveal to others. Items in this hidden area become public primarily through self-disclosure, which is the focus of this section. This is the section in which when they broke up she did not want to tell him about his new Europan friend on when she was telling about him to his other friends.

1 OPEN 3 HIDDE N

2 BLIND 4 UNKNOW N

This represents information that is unknown to both and others. At first the unknown area seems impossible to verify. But they both seem to be blind to many things. For example, Lindsey was blind to see that in the future it could be a problem that she is making more money that he is. And Ben had many hidden feeling in which he never expressed openly to her

Facilitation of emotions

Lindsey and Ben had several dimensions. They were internal physiological changes, manifested by nonverbal reactions, and defined in most cases by cognitive interpretations at the bigning she was hesitant to date him, but that change and she was able to compromise a lot for him. They sometimes made choices about whether or not to verbalize their feelings. For example, he was nervous that he was disappointed because he would lose a game instead going to Paris with her.

There were several reasons why people they did not verbalize many of their emotions the feel. He had a personality that was less prone toward emotional expression. Culture and gender also have an effect on the emotions we do and dont share with others she was more prompt to share her emotions. Social rules and roles discourage the expression of some feelings, particularly negative ones. He did not want to show his disappoint when he did not want to go to France Fear of consequences leads people to withhold expression of some emotions. Finally, contagion can lead us to experience emotions that we might not otherwise have had. Because total expression of emotions is not appropriate, several guidelines help define when and how to express emotions effectively. At the end he shows her that he was worthy.

Communication and relationship dynamics

Listening was the the most common and perhaps the most overlooked form of their communication.

He was sometimes mindless and mindful listening like when they were having the baby. She on the other hand was a better listener, she was always prompt to hearing, attending, understanding, responding, and remembering. More than he did . Some reasons of him to no to listen well was with the to do with the tremendous number of messages that bombard him daily and with the at school and in his personal preoccupations, noise, and rapid thoughts that distract him from focusing in his relationship. He was not a considerable effort involved in listening carefully to her and the mistaken belief he neglected the rewards in speaking than in listening. At the end they have a better listening to each other.

Relational Commitment

Their intimacy was pretty good. They were physically attractive , intellectual fit ,emotionally available, and shared activities together . they have a healthy family relationships are in which was formative, role driven, and generally involuntary. They knew each others families which develop in better communication patterns that involve the merging of particular conversation and conformity orientations.His family were his friends but she did not have a problem with that. They sometimes were volatile, as when she goes to the center of the field. Avoidant, when she does not want to see him and validating when she accepted him.

Self-disclosure

They have a very strong self-disclosure: they were honest, revealing messages about the self that are intentionally directed toward others as when he confessed that he was pretty much married to his game. Their slef image serve them to have a better reciprocity in their relatioships and self-validation and even having some social influence. The risks of self-disclosure include the possibility when she confessed his addition to the game was of rejection, making a negative impression, a decline their relational satisfaction. He was also afraid to a loss of influence, and hurting her.

Empathy

They have empathy in for each other. Lindsey and Ben a lot of time had the ability to experience another persons point of view. As when she finally understands his passion for the game and she runs in the

middle of the field to show her love to him. Her perception about him was correct. He conquer her with his humor. This humor make him feel a lot of sympathy towards him.

Conflict solving

They had a lot of conflicts in their interpersonal relationship. The way in which conflicts are handled played a major role in the quality of a relationship. She managed to be more constructively that lead the relationship to be stronger and more satisfying interaction. As when she compromise going to every game; but when they are were handle poorly, as when she wanted to take him to Paris and show him that she was pregnant, but he did not wanted to compromise, then their relationships suffered. Some conflicts were avoided as she made more money than him, some accommodating, like her going to the games with him and some collaborating as when she reconciled when she knew she was not pregnant. Each approach was justified and had always a positive outcome. Unfortunately, The way a conflict is handled is not always the choice of a single person. He compromised more than him. At the end this will be a problem. But they influenced each other as they develop a relational conflict style. Some times they were complementary, as when she went to the games symmetrical when they wanted to become a couple despite of their differences.

The birds

Mitch and Melanie felt attracted to each other mainly by the mystery that evolved hi. When they meet at the bird shop , he knew a lot about her, this motives her to know more about him. There were also a physical attraction, they were both good-looking. They seemed to have a lot of common too. They share they same social status and they live in the same city.