Posted on 03/25/2018 2:48:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Scott was a solid actor with a lot of good pictures, but I'm not sure that he ever had an opportunity to make a great one.
>> Couldn’t believe that Lee Marvin could play a villain<<
You must have missed him with Brando in The Wild One.
The Outlaw Josey Wales....Agree totally! It is not a true list without that one. I had to offer that earlier myself!
Lee Marvin played the villain in several episodes of “Perry Mason”. One of them actually played today.
Thank you for the correction on the kids teaching each other their crafts - not that you mention it, I think I had heard that before.
I was recently looking at Bruce Dern. (My wife said he played the bad guy in Clint’s movies, and I argued he was the bad guy in Wayne’s movies. We were both right!)
He was only on the set of “The Cowboys” for a few days as he was in the midst of another film. John Wayne gave him permission to be a real jerk to everybody - including Wayne, so the kids would hate him. I think Dern even slugged Wayne once on the set during an “argument”.
He also spoke about how for years he would get accosted and yelled at on the street for being the guy that killed John Wayne. “Look lady - I’m just an actor!”
Never seen it.
Silverado
Okay, I’m Silly. How about Evil Roy Slade?
Well done and well said. Thank you.
That Wayne’s character had come out of the Civil War is an element of his character that is often overlooked.
Thanks for those scenes. The Searchers is my wife’s favorite movie.
Not familiar with that one.
Hard to confine my favorites to just 10.A few of them: Red River, Hondo, Winchester 73, The Last Command (my favorite Alamo movie)Bend of the River (with James Stewart).
I agree. Joel McCrea was top notch.
Have you seen “The Westerner” with Walter Brennan and Gary Cooper. It’s one of my favorites and the authenticity was outstanding.
It is unusual for a John Wayne character, IMO. And keep in mind (If you remember the scene) when he is looking for Debbie at the fort, and he sees the traumatized women and girls who have lost their mind, and he knows they have been so traumatized as to be non-functional in society, or so brainwashed there is no bringing them back.
In light of that, I think he could be capable of killing her. Sadly.
I like “Shane”. Always have.
I think “Unforgiven” is one of the best Westerns. I have never viewed it as deconstructing the Western myth myself...I guess because I have always, even as a young kid, had a grittier view of what the West must have been like.
But I see what you mean about it.
I love that aspect of it. The whole ensemble with the great big Civil War Confederate cape that looked like it weighed a ton...but he was such a big guy that he wore it like he owned it. Loved the character.
I didn’t see the movie until late in life, just a few years ago, actually.
I was taken aback by the tone of the movie, and the craftsmanship that went into it from the cinematography perspective. I understood what John Ford was all about after that.
Movies used to just pull you in and totally engage your senses. The magic was never broken.
See my post at #278...exactly. A very dark role for him. That was quite unusual for John Wayne.
Yep. Sam Elliott is one of those guys like Robert Duvall...they can’t do wrong in a Western.
I had to laugh at his appearance in “The Big Lebowski” (I just watched it for the first time, recently) and I loved his role in “We Were Soldiers”...:)
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