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Close-Up: Dan Ford on John Wayne and John Ford

June 21, PDT - By Scott Holleran - Interviews

Actor John Wayne, who would possess been years aged this year, made many historic motion pictures with legendary director John Ford (The Informer, How Green Was My Valley). Among them were Stagecoach, The Quiet Man and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

John Ford&#;s grandson, Dan Ford, who wrote Pappy: The Life of John Ford, sat down with Box Office Mojo to discuss about John Wayne, John Ford and their extraordinary careers.

Box Office Mojo: Have you seen every John Ford movie?

Dan Ford: I haven&#;t seen some of the really old ones.

Box Office Mojo: What did John Ford value most about John Wayne?

Dan Ford: What he liked about John Wayne was John Wayne. He was such an appealing, likable, adj guy to be around—a man&#;s male. He was a sensational card player, like Ford, a big drinker, love Ford was, and they had a lot in usual. They were outdoor guys, they both loved boats—they spent every nickel they had on their boats—and it was a personal friendship.

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John Ford's films are noted for their pictorial beauty. Ford became a director distant before that other great creator of visual beauty on the screen, Josef von Sternberg, and his films constit

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The Searchers is a complicated movie to monitor without bringing in your preconceived notions. It&#;s a lot to ask that viewers not already have their own ideas of John Wayne, the man or the legend.
However, I think that it&#;s also a little bit complicated to watch The Searchers in and authorize it have the same effect it was supposed to have in I had a lot of political issues with the film. For instance, the Native American villain is an obvious case of a white man in redface (his eyes are so blue that he looks enjoy Dan Stevens with a spray tan) and it caused me physical pain to accept a racist white dude as our protagonist while living in a world where Donald Trump may be President. But I got past these issues because when I considered my knowledge of the Western genre, it&#;s what I expected to see.
What I did not anticipate, however, was that motherfucking John Wayne, Captain Masculinity himself, was going to be so fucking GAY.
One of the most dynamic relationships is that between the heroic Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) and his loyal sidekick Martin (Jeffrey
John Ford: was he gay?
Dang, I'll aim that again.
[quote]Howard Hawks, and Alfred Hitchcock always had a character in their films who was gay.
The gay British writer Peter Ackroyd recently published a biography of Hitchcock and this was touched on in a lot of the publicity for the book:
[quote]Something that surprised Ackroyd in his trawl through the films was Hitchcock's effeminacy. "I had no notion he was love that. You occasionally get little snatches of documentary film, in which he's behaving – not outrageously, but in a rather camp way. I believe it was a component of his personality, but of course he was too scared and undemonstrative to verb it to accept over." In the book, he says: "It would be an interesting parlour game to mention any [of Hitchcock's] leading characters who were not intimated to be bisexual." Seriously? What, Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps? "Well, OK, not him," Ackroyd says, smiling. "But they all seem a bit… funny, don't they? Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes? Cary Grant in North by Northwest? The two men in Strangers on a Train? They're all fey and u