Comments on: John Wayne Done Proud

By: ward

ward — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:17:00 +0000

I believe the Sergio Leone films were shot in Spain…

By: elkheart

elkheart — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:48:59 +0000

I still think that mr. burke should be removed from the bench. if only ole’ judge talbot were still sitting. *he* would *never* have allowed things to get so far out of hand. mr. burke is NOT competent to conduct trial…STEP DOWN EDDY. STEP DOWN HOWARD!

By: The Westerner

The Westerner — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:41:57 +0000

The points in your post are excellent: what the lawmen and magistrates have become and where the real power should lay.

Well done.

By: Zeus

Zeus — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:47:44 +0000

I always found the spaghetti westerns to be “amusingly creative” rather than “cheesy” but I’m known to be nostalgiac and cheesy myself.

As for the modifier, “black and white” cowboy flick might have worked but with recolorizations, nearly a hundred years distance and a general lack of historical knowledge among the modern public, few people might even remember the old b&w cowboy flicks where good guys wore white hats and bad guys wore black ones.

By: AnarchoJesse

AnarchoJesse — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:40:13 +0000

You made me kinda feel conscientious about it, so I changed it to “typical”

Thanks for putting the accurate fire under my ass.

By: AnarchoJesse

AnarchoJesse — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:37:15 +0000

I am actually a huge fan of Western films, and I know the difference between them all, but I used it as more of a “pretty cheezy” modifier to the “Western” part– I mean, all westerns were pretty cheezy, but I had always thought that the Spaghetti Western did this best out of making them so.

So I wasn’t trying to be inaccurate, per se, just trying to get across the point of “we all know this tired old story”

By: Zeus

Zeus — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:34:27 +0000

John Wayne never starred in a spaghetti Western as far as I know. They are called “spaghetti” because they were often shot in Italy as well as being directed and staffed by Italians like Sergio Leone. The most famous of these (in America) starred Clint Eastwood as “The Man With No Name”.

Unlike John Wayne’s squeaky-clean good-guy persona, Eastwood played a different, darker kind of gunslinger. These are icons from entirely different generations, the Duke being more my father’s kind of cowboy whereas Clint being mine.

Otherwise, nice post.