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Tango01  | 25 Jan 2025 5:10 p.m. PST |
… heroes feed American political ideology
""This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
That's the kicker line near the end of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, the 1962 John Ford western film starring James Stewart and John Wayne. In the movie, Stewart plays a frontier lawyer named Ranse Stoddard who goes on to become a U.S. Senator by riding a tale of personal bravery: his fatal shootout with the outlaw Liberty Valance, played by Lee Marvin. But as the film is told in flashback, we eventually find out the truth. He didn't kill the outlaw. John Wayne's character did…" More here
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| 0ldYeller | 27 Jan 2025 8:21 a.m. PST |
Mr. Deloria, who is quoted in the article, seems to have seen a completely different version of The Searchers then I have all these years. His analysis and understanding of the movie is uninformed, biased and infantile. Would expect no less from someone at Harvard. The usual stuff from The CBC. |
| Tango01 | 27 Jan 2025 3:57 p.m. PST |
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