You cannot seem to understand that film has nothing to do with reality.
Speaking of reality, we have people here who think that the Duke was mentored by Wyatt Earp (he was mentored by John Ford from a very early age starting as an extra in his silent films), who think he was a draft dodger (which you certainly implied) and now I’m learning he had a horse shot out from under him in True Grit - you are confusing that with the film’s Bo who is shot out from under him and Little Blackie who dies of exhaustion. Neither horse died in the making of this movie. They were actors like your favorite, Rin-Tin-Tin.
The use of the term “play-acting” of course lends itself to my belief that you have contempt for John Wayne. Be careful there because while you admire Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show, it is the director of that esteemed film who wildly admires the acting skills of The Duke and has given endless interviews on the subject. No one knows Ford or Wayne better.
Rubbish!
I refer you again to this paragraph in a previous reply #9:
"More than six decades later I still vividly remember a wide eyed kid bedazzled in a movie theater by John Wayne's performance in, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon . His trilogy under John Ford of the American West remains a classic of the American cinema. True Grit Remains a wonderful movie and Wayne's acting rightly deserved an Oscar. The Quiet Man is a timeless treasure which nearly 70 years later remains a nearly perfect movie that was almost never made. John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in that movie were superb, John Ford pulled it off again in directing this nostalgic look at old Ireland."
You just won't stop, will you?
who think he was a draft dodger (which you certainly implied)
That is an outrageous allegation. I said no such thing. If you want to make a point at least get the facts right for a change and refrain from baseless misrepresentations.
You cannot seem to understand that film has nothing to do with reality.
That has been the point of every one of my replies in this thread and you well know it.
I’ve read that about Earp & Wayne from several sources.
Here’s some
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/10/26/john-wayne-met-wyatt-earp-3/
I guess they all could reporting from the same bogus source.