Between 1939 and 1964, JOn Wayne was the face of the Hollywood West. There were big stars that were advancing in the genre (Jameseims Stewart, Gary Cooper and Henry Honda), but they were too artistic ambitious to continue making the same types of films over and over. Wayne didn't mind playing full bastards (see "Red River" or "Seekers"), but he would never play disturbingly obsessed protagonist like Scotty Ferguson in "Vertigo", "he would not allow him to be a whale in the hands of Barbara Stanvik in" Lady ". Make a military movie. With the "conqueror").

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Basically, for two decades and changes, when people were thinking about the West, they thought of Wayne. So, it is understandable that he felt stunning for the genre when he got older and the appetites of Moviegoers changed. Politically, Wayne was fiercely conservative and just like a dedicated patriot - at least when it comes to rhetoric. He glorely avoided any kind of military service During World War II (Unlike contemporaries Stewart and Honda), who made most of the chest. But as far as Hollywood is concerned, he was a very alpha dog, and when he opposed the dark direction, the western part headed because of the popularity of Spaghetti West in the 1960s, his opinion was more important than anyone else.

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How disturbed Wayne was the arrival of the revisionist, anti -Heroic Western? Enough angry to overtake Clint Eastwood in the letter.

In an interview in 1992 with a Los Angeles Times film critic, Kenneth Turan, Eastwood revealed that Johnon Wayne wrote a letter expressing his disgust for the audience of the director-Starvala of Western "high plains". The film, in which Eastwood plays an unnamed stranger, who is hired to protect the small old west of the city, begins dark and becomes darker as he refers to his satisfactory gloomy conclusion. His character is Antichero, which should not have been a problem for Wayne. After all, he played Viral Racist in "Seekers" and an uninvited killer in the Red River.

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According to Eastwood, Wayne's question was not the character. It was a portrayal of the American West. According to Eastwood, Wayne wrote: "That's not what the West is. It is not the American people who settled who have resolved this country."

How did Eastwood feel about this? Here's what he said to Turan:

"I realized that there were two different generations and he would not understand what I was doing. It should have been nothing to solve the West. "

The Mountain Meadow massacre in 1857 was not explicitly resolved by the West, but it happened. There was all kinds of cruelty and violence against people, as civilization approached the Pacific Ocean, and people like Wayne wanted to be responsible for writing history cinematically because they knew the power of the medium exceeded the influence of the textbook. Perhaps if he served in World War II, he would develop a finer gratitude for the white man's capacity for evil. I am grateful that Wayne was hanging out with Ford and the Hawks to make some of the biggest western ever made, but I am even more grateful that people like Eastwood, Sergio Leone and Sam Pekingpa came together and told less than noble stories about the evil bastards that helped to solve the West.

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