It is a time initial tradition in Hollywood that at some point in the career of the Starwar movie, they will give an interview during which they will discover: "What I would really want to do is is Directly"If what they would like to do is win an Oscar, that's not the worst idea. The actors Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Richard Attenborough, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Ron Howard have earned all the best. Unless that person is Gary Bussey.

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The Desirel of the Starwar's film director was not so much in the 1940s and the 1950s. If the actors had aspirations outside the Renomo on the screen, they generally wanted to produce. This is what made the biggest starvet in this period, Johnon Wayne when he began his Batjac Productions in 1952 with the "Great Jimim McLean", a political thriller that occupied and investigators of the Non-US Activities Committee, which fueled the Communists in the post-second Hawaii. Batjac did not always make spoiled films. The existence of the company will eventually be justified by the support of the brilliant western "seven men from Bud Buticher" (from now on "(Which Paul Schroeder and Ethan Hawk want to rewrite) In 1957, Frank Borzage's romance in World War II "China Doll", but before the creation of the company, Wayne had a vision of the EP hoping to be his crowned film achievement.

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Since 1945, he would like to make a movie about the battle of Alamo and eventually realized that in order to preserve the integrity of his vision, he would have to direct it. This will be the first of two times Wayne dared to step behind the camera. Both were war films, and they both failed to reduce their artistic ambitions.

On paper, the idea for Johnon Wayne is directed Like Davy Crockett in "Alamo" sounded like a winner. Posted in 1960, when Wayne's presence was, but guaranteed orderly profit, the film was reinforced in the heavens. Critics, however, were not impressed, and the punishment of the film was punishing a 161-minute length (202 minutes if you caught the publication of the roads) wore a movie. Observed simply as meat and competitors, a patriotic spectacle Rah-Rah, fails to lift the blood. Richard Widmark, the biggest name in the film to Wayne, expressed dissatisfaction with the director of the starvet's heavy hands. Others were more complimentary to the back of the Duke, but when the film made a disappointing $ 20 million on a $ 12 million budget ($ 1.5 million, which claimed Wayne out of his pocket), Hollywood realized that this would be the last time the Starvist took a crack.

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Hollywood realized wrong. In 1968, the public animated public support for the Vietnam war, Wayne and Batjak gathered behind the adaptation of Robin Moore's semi-fiction "green berets". Wayne did not make bones for the fact that his film was supposed to turn the public to the conflict, so he played a ball with the Pentagon across the board. When the US Army demanded Moore, whose account was not explicitly pro-war, to be excluded from production, Wayne bought the writer.

"Green Berets" are now considered one of Wayne's worst films, and one of the worst films ever made, but made $ 35 million with a $ 7 million budget. If nothing else, Wayne proved that he could still be in a military coup. But in taking a co-director role along with Ray Kellogg, his interest in making films seemed to be declining. Wayne will continue to have a huge amount of power as a star-producer until his retirement in 1976 with Don Siegel's "cameraman", but he has never directed another film. In retrospect, we can safely say that he was not cut off for the job. But he was a better employment than Gary Busi.

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