Tag: John Wayne
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Love Letter to the West
Westerns. John Ford was the master of Westerns. He was THE guy when it came to depicting gunfights and chases on horseback. Sergio Leone might be the director you’d like to think invented the Western genre, but he didn’t. He improved the Spaghetti Western one. The Western genre was all John Ford’s. Westerns at the […]
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The Duke
Today’s topic: the controversial icon. I’ve known the name ‘John Wayne’ since I was a little child. It made me feel safe, it made feel right at home. That familiar face, those reassuring blue eyes, and that walk. He would come up on screen and it was celebration time for me and the entire family. […]