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Hace 1 día · The Shootist is a 1976 film that stars John Wayne as an aging gunslinger who seeks redemption and dignity in his last days. The film reflects on Wayne's career and explores the cyclical nature of violence in Westerns, with graphic scenes and a sensitive performance.
Hace 2 días · The Shootist is a cancer movie. More than a Western, it’s a cancer flick set in the Old West. I haven’t been this blindsided since, as a grade-schooler, I watched Brian’s Song on TV because I thought it was a football movie. Which is also a cancer movie.
23 de abr. de 2024 · Scott Campbell. Tue 23 April 2024 16:15, UK. Art and life regularly intersect in cinema, and while he always harboured dreams of making at least one more feature, The Shootist conspired to offer the near-perfect swansong for John Wayne to bow out of silver screen stardom.
25 de abr. de 2024 · High Plains Drifter, which follows a mysterious gun-fighter (Eastwood) hired by a local town to defend its people against three violent outlaws, is a dark, revisionist examination of the cowboy...
21 de abr. de 2024 · By Jeremy Carr.. Just as crucial to The Shootist is what Books leaves behind, which, prior to the beginning of the film, was nothing more than his dubious exploits and the tales that followed. By the end of the film, though, there is something more.” It obviously isn’t necessary to know an actor’s life story in order to assess their performance in a given film.
Hace 3 días · No doubt that The Shootist must be in any of us 100 best westerns list ! Its special story with its stellar cas, its end of the West theme within the end of John Wayne in film and life, probably the number one actor of the genre, the western hero par excellence (leading the pack beside of Cooper) are giving the film an aura which was not planned, a myth within the myth.
18 de abr. de 2024 · Post. An old post on pre-code thesps co-written with Daniel Riccuito moves to the front page of The Chiseler. New in the post, my copies of THE SHOOTIST and MURPHY’S WAR have arrived — each has a video essay by me. Delighted to be sharing disc space, on THE SHOOTIST, with my old chum Scout Tafoya. It pains me to say it, but his essay on ...
