Posted on 03/09/2021 4:15:18 PM PST by Rummyfan
For his era, Ford portrayed Indians in a very respectful and at times noble manner.
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How right you are, and if you read the IMDB.COM “Trivia” items about this film, the Indians thought well of Wayne and Ford in return.
aha!! they’ve gone after “the Searchers” mightily....
“The unshaven portly guy with the massive DVD collection adjacent to dozens of empty pizza boxes and Mountain Dew cans is laughing at us.“
Hey!... I resemble that remark! nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...
Apparently the 1939 version was a TELEVISION movie, which probably few people have actually seen, so no ratings.
My Top Five John Ford films:
The Searchers
The Long Voyage Home
How Green was My Valley
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
And
The Quiet Man
And one more ...
They Were Expendable...
And mixed race couples of EVERY configuration...
Remember when they used to use hot chicks to sell stuff?
Those days are GONE.
They had a more insidious plan in mind: instead of canceling it, they colorized it.
No just terrified of being called racist.
We do not have to watch the post film confab. The films will not be rabbit holed by TCM.
Not only that he made it a point to hire local Indians (sorry - Native Americans!) in the Monument Valley area for his shoots. And it was a very poor area back then....
I still have my DVD of Blazing Saddles, a very politically incorrect comedy. The funny thing is, there are a lot of videos on YouTube posted by young and middle-aged blacks who watched that movie for the first time and they loved it. Not offended at all. This is all SJW’s fainting on behalf of people they don’t even know anything about.
Clark took the red pill, finally at the end,
Yep.
Checked in on Amazon online last month to find almost every
offering on their front page to be a ‘black’ offering.
I promptly picked something else.
Until Whites aren’t being killed at random, I won’t be watching
Black cultural awareness offerings. Every commercial, gets bypassed
as quickly as possible.
The Leftists may think they are gaining ground with their antics
on the streets, but I’m one guy that resents what is going on and I
will not support people who haven’t come out and repudiated it.
Due to our lost infrastructure this last year, perhaps we
should start demanding reparations.
I read that when Orson Welles was learning how to make movies he went to the New York Public Library and watched Stagecoach over and over again. He thought John Ford was a master of light and shadow and how to frame a scene. When you compare the two, there are many similarities between Ford’s work in Stagecoach and Welles’ Citizen Kane.
Heads would explode!
That's true, but a lot of that light and shadow art was thanks to his cinematographer Greg Toland. Per Welles John Ford was the poet of American cinema and Howard Hawks was the prose writer of same.
OMG! Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday are two of the funniest movies ever! But Howard Hawks could direct in any genre. I don’t understand why he doesn’t have more of a following today.
‘12 percent of the population in 99 percent of commercials.’
black girls are all the rage, particularly the ones with Mickey Mouse ears hair...
True. Noir: The Big Sleep. Westerns: Red River. Adventure / Romance: Only Angels Have Wings. Screwball Comedy:Bringing Up Baby. Even sci-fi (he had a big hand in it if not actually directing): The Thing. I'm not sure what category Sergeant York fits into... it's a war flick, sorta, but more just a patriotic picture.
He certainly has a follower in me. And FWIW, John Carpenter once said he learned everything he ever knew about film from watching Howard Hawks' movies, and he stole most of what he saw and used it in his own films.
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