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Hace 1 día · The Shootist is John Wayne’s last love letter to cinema, and there’s a lifetime of regret that perishes with Books. It’s a beautiful, haunting, and fitting end to the career of one of cinema ...
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 · The Shootist at large serves as an apt exclamation point on not just Wayne’s career but his standing in Hollywood history. Beyond the similarities of the illness shared by performer and part, Books may as well have been a facsimile of where ‘The Duke’ found himself at the time professionally. Books is forced to contend with a modern world ...
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.
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.
25 de abr. de 2024 · Western. A gun-fighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way. Release Date ...
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 ...
