For a long time, Johnon Wayne was Angry that they lost at the Academy Award. Then he finally won the Oscar for his performance as American Marshall Ruben J. But next year, his reputation hit when he gave what became infamous Playboy An interview in which he said some things that persecuted his death. These things include criticizing the civil rights movement and the claim that they support "white supremacy" before marking selfish Americans selfish to try to keep their country and "keep it for themselves". Since then it is not difficult to see why this interview has lived in infamous, and why it continues to be reviewed every few years, although the man himself died in 1979.

One year after the interview, Wayne seems to have allowed his legacy as an archetypal American hero to take another blow, though this time had nothing to do with his policy. Wayne was killed in films repeatedly, dying in the 1942 giant squid tentacles and dying after being shot by a Japanese soldier in 1949 Sands of Iwo Jima. Wayne even succumbed to being stabbed in "Alamo", in which his Davy Crockery blows a gunpowder and takes a Mexican troops with him. But there was something indisputably disturbing for the death of his character in 1972 "Cowboys" - a movie he almost lost because of his policy.

The man who took your life was Bruce Dern. Instead, Bruce Dern's insincere cattle, Asa Watts, who shoot the Wayne Will Andersen ranch several times. For whatever reason, this special death on the screen hit an unusual chord with an audience, which were not used to seeing the Duke fell on such a tragic, unjust and violent way. Such an event has even changed the course of Dern's own career, with the actor being typical of a villain for some time, as well as being known as a man who killed Johnon Wayne. However, in justice, the Duke warned him.

The Cowboys were based on the novel in 1971 with the same name from William Dale Ennings, directed by Mark Relle, marking the only collaboration of his and Wayne. The film is watched by Wayne in one of his numerous paternal roles such as Rancer Will Andersen, who hires a group of young boys to help him drive a 400 -mil. Then he teaches the boys skills needed for a long journey - along with some life lessons that basically mean to "tighten" - before they go with their new team.

On the trip, they meet with Asa Watts of Bruce Dern, leader of the cattle group who allegedly want to work for Andersen. But after Rancer rejects Watts and his demand for men, they seem to disappear just to follow Andersen and his boys, eventually confront them and steal the flock. But before they can get away with livestock, Anderson and Watts come in strikes in a fight that is one of the biggest Moments of the movie Johnon Wayne. Wayne's image goes beyond Dern, which the audience was expected to expect. But real shocking development comes directly afterwards. After Andersen turned away from the overthrown watts, Dern's character then shoots Andersen in his hands, leg and back, and the father of the passenger of the young boys falls to the floor before slowly succumbing to the wounds.

Such a moment should always be shocked by the audience to see Wayne sooner out of the bad guys. Even when he died on the screen earlier, it was a truly heroic way or he could at least take bad guys in the process. However, here, he is simply killed while his back is turned. The fact that he was 55 years old at the time probably made the whole thing difficult. As the man has already damaged his reputation with an interview with Playboy, seeing that an older Wayne is wasted by firearms, he probably hit a little near home for man's fans, who began to feel that they were witnessing at the end of an era.

Wayne himself probably knew how much and apparently warned Dern - though in a light way - before shooting his death scene. In 1996 Interview About the movie "The Last Man Standing", it was asked that Dern was asked to be one of the only actors who killed Johnon Wayne on the screen, saying, "(Wayne) said, before I pulled the trigger and made the first takeover," Oh, "Maybe I was," They were angry with Wayne's comments to Playboy. Dern continued: "You have to remember it was 1972. He has just done an interview with a Playboy that will tear everyone in America, which was not white white."

"Cowboys" is not one of the best western ever madeBut he is probably one of the most important because of the shocking scene of death and as a result of casting like Bruce Dern. But it seems at the time, everything was good for setting up. Dern explained his experience of shooting the scene in 2015 Cowboys and Indians Interview, saying Wayne was laughing at the Berkeley joke. According to the actor, Wayne then put his hand around the neck of the co-Starvala, turned to the 90 or more crew and said, "That's why this is in my movie." Dern explained: "He understands that bad guys can be funny. If they weren't, why would they talk about them 150 years later?" It seems that Wayne was looking forward to getting the best out of Dern from the beginning, and even ordered the young actor to treat him with disregard for the set to create a picture of himself as a bad man for children who played a young ranch. As Dern explained in an interview with Cowboys and Indians:

"Immediately at the beginning, (Wayne) said," I want to do us a service. " He was involved in himself, (director) Mark Ridge and the screenwriters.

The young Dern, who had to find the opportunity to respect the legendary Johnon Wayne Tad vertiginous, remembered that he accepted the actor's request. "He gave me Carte Blanche to treat him like grass," he said. "So, I was on him, talked to him and things, I was there for a few days. And he would do things like he called, 'Hey, G -Denn, would you go here?' I thought, hey, Johnon Wayne gives you the status of "master".