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Originally Posted by blueerica
While I still haven't thoroughly scanned the list, one must consider ground-breaking films, even if they don't hold up as well today. Then again, they missed such ground-breaking robot films as The Day the Earth Stood Still in favor of other movies.
The Searchers really stands as one of my least favorite movies of all time, but mostly due to my beliefs. Though it was a departure for Ford with the blurred lines, and especially for John Wayne (that is, I think, his first "bad-guy" role, except, he can't just be a bad guy, he's still glorified and not in a way that's meaningful, it's like they try to make him out like he's a good guy, which I think is pretty crappy). I still don't know why it's so high on the list. I just have to think it's even on there because it was such a departure for Wayne, in particular. (Crappy movie - makes me want to read Cormac McCarthy for that super gritty bloody stuff in which the bad are bad, even when they're good, and there isn't any fluff over it.)
Ugh, OK, I really do need to go through the list more.
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The Searchers is more regarded for its technique - its craft - than its story. It is the Velvet Underground of modern cinema - a work that is at least as significant for its great influence on a generation of filmmakers.
And yes, big departure for Ford and Wayne. And that redemption scene is one of the most resonant in all of cinema.
06-22-2007, 10:45 AM
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