The Shodist by John Ford

John Wayne was not a bad actor, but he wasn't as unfunctional as anecdotes imply. He knew that his films could do that, and actively sought to use them to convince people to go and fight in viat nom right? So you're not necessarily a bastard as an action movie star. John wayne stands simply as the most persuasive and overwhelming embodiment of our ambivlence about american manhood. His persona gathers in one place, the allure of violence, the call away from the frontier, the tortured ambilence toward women and the home,. The dark pleasure of saward, romanticism, all those things that reside, unspoken, at the centre