Posted on 07/23/2023 9:36:20 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
On July 24, 1952, Stanley Kramer’s High Noon was released and subsequently won 4 Oscars.
Wikipedia reports that the film was “one of the first 25 films (selected) for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” in 1989, the NFR’s first year of existence.”
As I see it, the greatness of the movie is in showing how good government depends on the performance of exceptional individuals and just how hard modern centuries make it for those individuals to want to stay in government.
The heroes we need are getting harder and harder to find.
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Great film and an interesting thought but I have to disagree with this, “ good government depends on the performance of exceptional individuals.”
We have a system of limited government, or are supposed to, because the founders knew that the likelihood of “exceptional individuals” leading us was a pipe dream and that limiting the damage any particular branch of government or individual could do was crucial.
Good government depends on a vigilant citizenry, which the town in High Noon lacked. They had the government they deserved.
I never liked High Noon.
“Good government depends on a vigilant citizenry” AND a vigilant, independent, honest press to expose bad government. We have neither.
Yeah. Hadleyville had a crappy newspaper and an even worse local news channel.
No country would survive long if that were true.
Never like High Noon? I’m sure Gary Cooper missed your ticket purchase in 52.
Rio Bravo was a response to High Noon where John Wayne and company symbolized patriots who are being persecuted by hollyweird commie pinko fags.
Governments don’t tend naturally to be benevolent because the people that make it up are usually there because they have a craving for power control over others, which is a Bonafide mental flaw.
I never liked it either. Mechanical and hollow. So many better westerns.
The people who walked and rode across this country from the east, who also went thru the civil war would not have let the bad guys get away. They would have shot them to pieces.
his worst battle
was with his deputy
the best line
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I was tired
wanted to run
filming
Cooper had the flu
created more dramatics
tension
“Great film and an interesting thought but I have to disagree with this, “ good government depends on the performance of exceptional individuals.”
We have a system of limited government, or are supposed to, because the founders knew that the likelihood of “exceptional individuals” leading us was a pipe dream and that limiting the damage any particular branch of government or individual could do was crucial.
Good government depends on a vigilant citizenry, which the town in High Noon lacked. They had the government they deserved.”
But the American system inevitably has a president and cheif justice and speaker for the House and amjority leader in the Senate ...... the performance of these individuals has a lot to do with how good or otherwise the govt is ........ and opinion from the outside ,,,,,,,,
Memorable title song:
Do nor forsake me oh my darling….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLwPziSznU
High Noon IMHO represents a character study. Today after a few decades I better understood the Gary Cooper character. My fellow citizens are acting like the townspeople. The ending - one cannot blame the Cooper character for looking at the townspeople with great disdain as he throws his star on the dusty dirty ground, climbs into the cart and drives out of town. He did what was demanded of him while the Americans people sat by doing nothing. Does that remind anyone of somebody?
In real life, in New Mexico territory, the men were not wimps like in the movie. The older ones were veterans of the Civil War, and everyone had experience in the Indian Wars.
Any outlaws showing up on the noon train would have a few dozen rifles pointed at them.
That was one reason John Wayne hated High Noon. I think he called the film "Communist."
Wayne also called Gary Cooper's character a coward for seeking help. Wayne said that a real man would have taken on the gang by himself.
Written by a communist.
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