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The Searchers gives the lie to the supposed heroism of the Wild West mythos. John Wayne plays the same Indian-killing cowboy we've seen him play since the early 1930's, the image of a valiant savior come to rescue a bunch of white folks from the Native American menace, but here he plays it as explicitly racist, calling out the pathological ...
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The Searchers is a compelling, dark Western which utilizes...
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The Searchers. 1956. ★★★★★. Rewatched Sep 24 , 2023. Josh...
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16 de nov. de 2022 · The Searchers is a compelling, dark Western which utilizes and subverts Wayne’s status as the quintessential American movie star (in the quintessential American movie genre) in order to turn our gaze towards the American frontier and the brutal colonial violence which serves as the bedrock of American ‘civilization’.
The Searchers. 1956. ★★★★★. Rewatched Sep 24 , 2023. Josh Lewis’s review published on Letterboxd: Obviously the accumulation of so many of Ford's own interests with the psychology and camaraderie of military men, with brutal outsiders vs. graceful and warm communities, with the history of this land as both a poetic and elementally ...
The Searchers 1956 ★★★★½ . Rewatched Apr 21, 2024. Liz Locke’s review published on Letterboxd: Glorious on the big screen, and one of the very few westerns I enjoy. ...
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Centauros del desierto es una película dirigida por John Ford con John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond .... Año: 1956. Título original: The Searchers. Sinopsis: Texas. En 1868, tres años después de la guerra de Secesión, Ethan Edwards, un hombre solitario, vuelve derrotado a su hogar. La persecución de los comanches que ...
The Searchers was made at the beginning of the civil rights movement, and encapsulates ideas of racism in a Western format in a way that was very progressive for its time, but still seems pretty racist today.
