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Close-Up: Dan Ford on John Wayne and John Ford
June 21, 2007 1:42 PDT - By Scott Holleran - Interviews
Actor John Wayne, who would have been 100 years ancient this year, made many historic motion pictures with famous director John Ford (The Informer, How Green Was My Valley). Among them were Stagecoach, The Quiet Man and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
John Ford's grandson, Dan Ford, who wrote Pappy: The Life of John Ford, sat down with Box Office Mojo to speak about John Wayne, John Ford and their extraordinary careers.
Box Office Mojo: Have you seen every John Ford movie?
Dan Ford: I haven't seen some of the really old ones.
Box Office Mojo: What did John Ford value most about John Wayne?
Dan Ford: What he liked about John Wayne was John Wayne. He was such an appealing, likable, entertainment guy to be around—a man's male. He was a sensational card player, like Ford, a big drinker, favor Ford was, and they had a lot in ordinary. They were outdoor guys, they both loved boats—they spent every nickel they had on their boats—and it was a personal friendship.
Box Office Mojo: To attain that level of consistency throughout their operate is a
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By Tori Link
The Searchers is a difficult movie to watch without bringing in your preconceived notions. It’s a lot to ask that viewers not already have their have ideas of John Wayne, the man or the legend.
However, I reflect that it’s also a petite bit difficult to watch The Searchers in 2016 and let it have the same effect it was supposed to have in 1956. I had a lot of political issues with the film. For instance, the Native American villain is an apparent case of a white gentleman in redface (his eyes are so blue that he looks enjoy Dan Stevens with a spray tan) and it caused me physical pain to accept a racist white man as our protagonist while living in a world where Donald Trump may be President. But I got past these issues because when I considered my knowledge of the Western genre, it’s what I expected to see.
What I did not expect, however, was that motherfucking John Wayne, Captain Masculinity himself, was going to be so fucking GAY.
One of the most dynamic relationships is that between the heroic Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) and his faithful sidekick Martin (Jeffrey Hunter). In fact, The Searchers lends itself well to a queer reading throu
Forty years after his death John Ford remains an enigma.
In his new guide Three Bad Men: John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond author Scott Allen Nollen calls Ford “one of the most complex, contradictory, and downright confounding men who ever burned daylight.” And, in the context of his resourceful collaboration with the two actors most inextricably linked to his films – “an association unparalleled in the history of Hollywood Cinema” – Nollen seeks to shed light on the troubled genius.
He succeeds to the extent one can when writing about men who are drawn-out dead, and about whom much has already been reported. And your level of interest in the result will largely trust upon how much you like your legends deconstructed.
Born John Martin Feeney in Cape Elizabeth, Maine on February 1, 1894, Ford was honored four times with an Academy Award for Best Director – for THE INFORMER (1935), THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940), HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941), and THE QUIET MAN (1952) – yet he consistently downplayed the visual artistry of his work. In one fascinating account, Nollen relates the story of 32-year-old Ford studying in Berlin under the tutelage of newly minted Fox contractee F.W. Murnau, j
John Ford: was he gay?
Dang, I'll aim that again.
[quote]Howard Hawks, and Alfred Hitchcock always had a character in their films who was gay.
The gay British writer Peter Ackroyd recently published a biography of Hitchcock and this was touched on in a lot of the publicity for the book:
[quote]Something that surprised Ackroyd in his trawl through the films was Hitchcock's effeminacy. "I had no thought he was fond of that. You occasionally get little snatches of documentary movie, in which he's behaving – not outrageously, but in a rather camp way. I deliberate it was a component of his personality, but of course he was too scared and undemonstrative to enable it to grab over." In the book, he says: "It would be an interesting parlour game to designate any [of Hitchcock's] leading characters who were not intimated to be bisexual." Seriously? What, Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps? "Well, OK, not him," Ackroyd says, smiling. "But they all seem a bit… funny, don't they? Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes? Cary Grant in North by Northwest? The two men in Strangers on a Train? They're all fey and unserious and camp. And he treated his heroines as more masculine than the men."
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