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  • #31
    Re: The Searchers

    All I know is that I need an eye patch too...but I'd rather not lose my eye
    Passion Fuels Passion

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    • #32
      Re: The Searchers

      a perfect example of why academics have no business commenting on art: they exist only for themselves. sweet jesus, this reads like a grad school dissertation. what a buffoon. i would rather someone dismiss a movie w/ a shrug and say 'doesn't do it for me' than toss words like pathos and allegory around.
      If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. -- Stanley Kubrick

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      • #33
        Re: The Searchers

        Originally posted by Gorilla King
        All I know is that I need an eye patch too...but I'd rather not lose my eye
        Confession time: I wear an eye patch when I grill out.....FACT!
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        • #34
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          Alright, well if it's confession time, I have one too ....

          Eye patches on chicks are sexy.

          And by that I mean I've made time with a chick with an eye patch.
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          • #35
            Re: The Searchers

            Wayne often played complex men who were both good and bad, intolerant and accepting, rigid and flexible. Even if you firmly believe this movie was written specifically for Wayne to play Ethan - I don't see how it deconstructs anything? Ethan is very similar to many other characters played by Wayne.

            Fortune favors the bold - Virgil

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            • #36
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              In what previoius film was Wayne so unapologetically racist and misogynistic?

              (qualities John Wayne the man possessed in great quantity)
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              • #37
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                In what previoius film was Wayne so unapologetically racist and misogynistic?

                Since when does wanting to kill a woman make you misogynous? Puleeze.

                I suppose in his other films he was misandrous?

                As for Wayne playing a character who was racist by today's standards - virtually all of his roles would fit that category.

                Fortune favors the bold - Virgil

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                • #38
                  Re: The Searchers

                  I thought this was Wayne's most intense role...seeking to kill Debbie, his blood kin...having some kind of previous relations with his brother's wife...the scalping of his enemy....but dammit, that's what made this movie so much fun to watch.

                  By the way, John Wayne is not dead...he's frozen....waiting...
                  Last edited by writerman; 07-10-2006, 12:27 PM.
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                  • #39
                    Re: The Searchers

                    Racist?

                    Or is he more humanly disappointed in Debbie's easy adaptation to her captors?
                    Writers write to be read, right?

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                    • #40
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                      I'd trade a dozen Sean Penn's for another John Wayne.
                      Passion Fuels Passion

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                      • #41
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                        Originally posted by andlary1
                        Racist?

                        Or is he more humanly disappointed in Debbie's easy adaptation to her captors?
                        I never thought of it that way.

                        Could Debbie be Ethan's child from an affair with his brother's wife?
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                        • #42
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                          Originally posted by writerman
                          I never thought of it that way.

                          Could Debbie be Ethan's child from an affair with his brother's wife?
                          Smartass!

                          Writers write to be read, right?

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                          • #43
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                            Love it or hate it, I don't see how any cinephile can reasonably deny The Searchers' its iconic status. It's a landmark Western that has survived to the present day for very good reasons.
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                            • #44
                              Re: The Searchers

                              here here, wolfy.

                              (this was my 5,000th post for those who care about such matters)
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