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The Searchers (1956)
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5 Lovable Movie Racists
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"Don’t you just hate when the movies make you care about a bigot? Sure, racists are technically humans, but that doesn’t mean we need to sympathize with them, right? No matter how great the film, it should be very difficult to accept the softening of intolerant people. Yet the lovable racist is not uncommon in cinema. In fact, out in theaters right now are two films dealing with this type of character. The Reader presents a cold Concentration Camp guard (Kate Winslet) for whom we’re meant to shed a tear, and Gran Torino focuses on a War Veteran stereotype (Clint Eastwood) who may evoke from the audience as much amusement as disgust. Maybe it’s like picking a scab, watching these kinds of movies. Some great films, such as Downfall, may only welcome an understanding of someone so heinous as Adolph Hitler, but other films have allowed us to totally enjoy racist protagonists of lesser offense. Check out the following examples to see "
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Western
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"The Western Top 10 is the toughest for me. As some of you may know, while I'm hardly Richard Slotkin or Jane Tompkins, I write, teach, and think about this genre on a regular basis, and, as a result, my views are not only fairly strong, but well-informed. And, where certain well regarded classics are concerned, they are also iconoclastic. This is probably nowhere more obvious than with The Searchers (1956), the film that tops the AFI list. This film does not resonate with me on any level. I have never found the ending credible. John Wayne does not portray Ethan Edwards with any of the complexity needed for his embrace of Debbie (Natalie Wood) to ring true after his 118 (or so) minutes of hard, racist ranting about Native Americans and his intent to kill her. I also find the photography and production design to be garish without purpose, and for all of its superficial sophistication about Native peoples, the talk of ritual, the use of indigenous language, it only serves to perpetuat ... "
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Important (But Boring) Film
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"While I thought the cinematography was wonderful, I found myself yawning often during this Oater. But don't get me wrong - even though it's not my style, I appreciate it for what it's worth: it changed the Western as we know it forever. Never before had a "hero" been so unlikable. His wears his racism on his sleeve, and it's ugly to see. The Duke also isn't one of my favorite actors (I'd rate him pretty low, actually), but who else at that time could have altered the genre as much as he did...than him? It's an important milestone in film history...but it's just not my bag, man. Maybe another viewing will change my mind... "
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Top 5 Westerns
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"1. Once Upon A Time In The West2. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly 3. The Searchers4. Rio Bravo5. The Wild Bunch "
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I didn't love it at first
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"I grew up disliking the popular arts that my parent’s generation enjoyed. Country music and western movies were stupid. They were made by stupid people- the same people who allowed and supported the Vietnam war, the same people who didn’t care that we were going to destroy the planet either with bombs or pollution, the same people who oppressed Americans who looked or acted differently from them. The same people who wanted to send me off to war for no good reason. The art that I enjoyed was, I thought, new and different- a break from tradition, owing little to what came before. It was made by people like Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese, and Stanley Kubrick. But later I learned that Dylan borrowed heavily from old folk and blues songs in his lyrics and that he was an admirer of country singers like Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash. And that Martin Scorsese loved John Ford and The Searchers. I won’t go into all the reasons why this movie is great art, at least not r ... "
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