When you think about old -fashioned movie stars, few people are more appropriate to fall to me than Gary Cooper. Cooper was the embodiment of his name: a solid, direct presence that attracted the attention of the audience for decades. His career stretched from 1925 to 1961, and his legacy lives more than sixty years later through his roles in classics such as "Pride of Yanki", "Mr Deddi goes to town" and other old Hollywood titles. Although passed in 1961, Cooper's legend is such that he has never left our minds, even as an avatar of old -fashioned masculinity, without seeming to look slightly reinforced or exaggerated. Cooper was an essential American starfish after winning two best Oscars in his lifetime. One of those Oscars was for the Wounds title in the 1940s "Sergeant York", but that's the other film he won about what we will talk about today.

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As many as there are many classics like Cooper, only one rules the supreme on his Metacrytic page. Although it is technically true that two other films are ranked higher on the list, it is fair to say that none of them really count. One is the recent documentary "I'm Not Your Negot", a great movie to be sure, but not the one starring. The other is probably among the greatest comedies of all time, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", in which Cooper's name is stated among the "special gratitude" in the initial loan as a short, blinking-and-my-my visual wrap. But no, if we remove the two, we stayed with a movie that not only used Cooper his last best Oscar actor, but one of the most memorable and iconic West of all time. It is no one other than the sincere classic of 1952, "High Noon".

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At the simplest, "High noon" is the story of a man who advocates, as he believes, is in the face of everyone else who disagree. Cooper is played by Marshall Will Caine, who is ready to leave behind the small town of Hedlivil, New Mexico and drive on the sunset with her bride of Quaker Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly, in one of her first film roles). But when Kane learns that wicked criminal Frank Miller, who had previously sent him to jail, comes to the city the day before the new Marshal arrives, he decided he should stay to protect the city until the transition could not appear smoothly. The problem is, absolutely no one else wants to help Kane for various reasons. Amy just wants to leave the city to make sure they can be safe and together, but Kane believes that Miller and his gang will hunt him no matter what. All others in hedvil avoid helping by self -clearing or flat coward, leading to tense and lifeless and climaxing, where Kane stands alone in the same name and must use bad guys.

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"High noon", which has 89 on Metacrytic, was not a film without controversy when it was developed and released. Arrival in 1952 and the display of a man who refuses to surrender to the crowd he would like to do the easy job instead Johnon WayneAs an allegory against the blacklist of actors and writers by the Committee on Non-American Activities of the Home, which was allegedly intended to eradicate communism, but was largely an abusive and catastrophic witch hunt against anyone who Senator Josephosef McCarthy believed that he believed his. Wayne didn't like the movie as much as the legendary director Howard Hawks as we would like Collaborate In response to a completely different western classic, Rio Bravo. (This, despite the fact that Wayne can say that the "High Noon" star Indirectly gave him his first big break.) Given that the film's screenwriter, Carl Forman, was summoned to the tribunals of Juak and refused to name the names of anyone who might have communist beliefs, it is not unfair to see Wayne's view (though it is fair to criticize such an allegorical story). Even the producer of the film, Stanley Kramer, Chafed Against Forman's refusal to name names and wanted to end their creative partnership.

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Whatever Johnon Wayne thought, it is worth noting that Gary Cooper was also a conservative colleague among Western stars and he did not bother the political allegory at "high noon". (He also felt that "high noon" saved him From the late stage career, filled with horrible scripts.) Despite the controversy of the film itself, "High Nonnob" did quite well after everyone was told and over. Although some critics and audiences of the day were surprised that the West had much less than the old -fashioned game of the genre they expected, it was reasonably in the box office and winning four Oscars. Including Cooper's Best Actor Award, she also won the best editing, the best original result and the best original Oscars song, and was nominated for the best image and best director. (Kramer and director of the film, Fred Zinemann, would lose for this specific film. Kramer will eventually win a memorial Oscar, and Zineman won as a director and producer of "Man for All Seasons."

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"High noon" is really one of the greatest west of all time, and also emphasized the beginning of the era in which actors and directors felt easier to play with the audience's expectations of what it was supposed to look like and feel west. The old black-and-white photo of the film, along with its intense moralist presentations of proper and wrong, would serve as a jump for other creators to make a similar careful and awkward West to move forward. Although it was a firearm at the industry debate at the time, history was very kind to "high noon", properly. It is a great movie, and the highest ranked effort of Metacrytic among Gary Cooper's huge filmography is right.

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