Yeah, they are watching the fight over the girl. It happened at the wedding, the prospective bride is at the right...:)
Posted on 03/25/2018 2:48:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yeah, they are watching the fight over the girl. It happened at the wedding, the prospective bride is at the right...:)
That’s what my wife says about his voice...:)
Well, if I have to fake one, I am using his!
Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood): Where'd you ever get an idea like that? Besides it ain't supposed to be easy to sneak up behind an Indian
Lone Watie: I'm an Indian, all right; but here in the nation they call us the "civilized tribe". They call us "civilized" because we're easy to sneak up on. White men have been sneaking up on us for years.
DEAD MAN is a very different but very good western.
It has a number of memorable scenes.
That’s a very good observation.
But the wedding never took place.
you’re watching the Perry Mason’s too huh?....us too ..that and catching up on all the years of Gunsmoke we missed...
Oh Geez. Was it or was it not a wedding? There is a woman with a wedding dress there. LOL, you aren’t really going to argue that, are you?
Great thread...thanks for starting it! These are a lot of fun...:)
Lone Watie: I’m an Indian, all right; but here in the nation they call us the “civilized tribe”. They call us “civilized” because we’re easy to sneak up on. White men have been sneaking up on us for years.
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That was a great line. Chief Dan George was very good in his rolls and had a good perspective on it all.
I watched The Missouri Breaks in a theatre in small town Puente Alto, Chile in the mid 70s. The movie was in English with Spanish subtitles. There’s a scene where a rancher is helping a cow give birth (IIRC) and he exclaims “Slipperier than snot on a doorknob.” I burst out laipughing out loud at that line and everybody in the theatre turned to stare at me. The on screen subtitle only said “slippery” in Spanish, not exactly a humorous line.
They probably muttered some hilarious lines about the loco gringo laughing at that.
1. Open Range
2. Stagecoach
3. Shane
4. The Searchers
5. Dances With Wolves
6. The Angel and the Badman
7. Jeremiah Johnson
8. Fort Apache
9. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
10. Centennial (the entire series)
Shane makes it for the great barroom brawl scene with Van Heflin coming through the swinging doors with his upraised axe handle and the crazed look in his eyes. Dances With Wolves - you have to consider the plains Indians story as a significant aspect of the western genre. Jeremiah Johnson because it’s the only mountain man movie I can recall. Fort Apache - here comes the cavalry! And Centennial with Lame Beaver staking himself out to kill the Pawnee chief Rude Water. Does anyone consider Peckinpah’s Lonely Are the Brave eligible for their list?
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Howard Hawks quotes:
Most of the leading men today, the younger men especially, are a little bit effeminate. There’s no toughness. [Steve McQueen] and [Clint Eastwood] don’t compare with [John Wayne].
John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen
[on John Wayne] He never squawks about anything. He’s the easiest person I ever worked with. Because he never says anything about it, he just goes ahead and does it.
I never made a message picture, and I hope I never do.
If you don’t get a damn good actor with [John Wayne] he’s going to blow him right off the screen, not just by the fact that he’s good, but by his power, his strength.
[John Wayne] is underrated. He’s an awfully good actor. He holds a thing together; he gives it a solidity and honesty, and he can make a lot of things believable.
[on Rio Bravo (1959)] After we finished we found we could have done it a lot better . . . and that’s why we went ahead and made El Dorado (1967).
If I want to have fun at a party I’ll tell The Duke [John Wayne], “See that guy over there? He’s a Red!”
The most watched for me would be Robert Mitchum’s Thunder Road.
Over the years I’ve probably seen it twenty times.
Second most watched is Broadcast News or Top Gun.
I got burned out on Centennial after the first five or six episodes. Robert Conrad’s fake French accent was so awful you wonder why they cast him in it.
Howard Hawks on actors he worked with:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/20/reviews/hawks-star.html
Amen to all!
Don't care what "Western Writers of America" or any other group of writers has to say about it. Writers aren't consumers of the product, and they have no idea what's good or bad.
Palance is 100% of the film, but he’s not enough.
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