John Wayne

[drinkanddestroy]

Let me put it to you this way:

I've read on this board that Sergio Leone liked High Noon and that the film influenced him.

If it's good enough for Sergio Leone, it's good enough for me.

Further, if Sergio Leone had met with John Wayne and talked about doing a film together, I'll bet their minds would have met, because they were both astute men and artists, and that's a film I would drive through red lights to see.


Richard

yeah, High Noon was definitely a big influence on Leone, and I think Leone was the greatest filmmaker ever and nobody else is even close. but that doesn't mean I have to like High Noon 

[drinkanddestroy]

Interestingly the local FYE had the John Wayne-John Ford box set on sale for $19.99 (vs. a list price of $59.99). Something to keep an eye out for.

too bad your birthday just passed  

[Richard--W]

Nobody says you have to like High Noon.
Go ahead and dislike it if you want to.
I just won't be told it's a bad film or a bad western when I know better.


Richard

[stanton]

I don't care for the content in High Noon, which surely is there. For me it is basically a typical western story done with a lot of style and bravura. What I don't like that much is that some of the dialogues and confrontations between Coper and his former friends are a bit artificial. Here the message takes over, and these are the scenes Zinneman could have learned from Hawks. But Rio Bravo is also not without flaws.


Well, I like both films very much.

[Groggy]

Nobody's saying anything you ought to be defensive about Dick. Apparently you just have a hard time accepting that other people have different opinions from you.

[stanton]

Ouch