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His characters (in particular the early ones) were John Fords characters. He always took complex stories to direct rather than pulp and even directed the Grapes
by twelvechairs 11y ago
His characters (in particular the early ones) were John Fords characters. He always took complex stories to direct rather than pulp and even directed the Grapes of Wrath which was about as left wing / communist as you could get away with in hollywood at the time.
Even though both wayne and ford are conservatives they both made films that were more complex than just espousing this 'all american' view which people seem to dump on wayne particularly.
- ArkyBeagle 11y ago"Grapes" is really well done. Jane Darwell is amazing in that. There's a lot of nuance to those movies. Ford could be infuriating - the ending would be nothing more than the soundtrack plays a nicely resolved dominant chord and the credits roll. Maybe there'd be a terminal sentence before that. Maybe not. Ford and Eastwood ( and later Wayne )had a rotating cast of actors - Ward Bond, Hank Worden, others in the case of Ford. The movies Wayne made while he didn't serve in WWII were also almost all overt propaganda movies - very slick propaganda. That doesn't mean you have to hate 'em.