John Ford: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
m (Mass update links) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
| Line 31: | Line 31: | ||
** Also Harry Carey, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, and his brother Francis Ford. |
** Also Harry Carey, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, and his brother Francis Ford. |
||
** Towards the end in [[The Sixties]] there were [[Woody Strode]], Patrick Wayne (John's son), and [[Jeffrey Hunter]]. |
** Towards the end in [[The Sixties]] there were [[Woody Strode]], Patrick Wayne (John's son), and [[Jeffrey Hunter]]. |
||
* [[Rated M for Manly]]: In John Ford's World, Real Men ride horses, drink whiskey, start fights, love their women, and save the planet. Usually by Thursday, Friday at the latest. |
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: In John Ford's World, Real Men ride horses, drink whiskey, start fights, love their women, and save the planet. Usually by Thursday, Friday at the latest. |
||
* [[Scenery Porn]]: If the film is based outdoors, be it the West in Monument Valley Utah or [[The Quiet Man|Ireland in Mayo County]], you are looking at some of the most ''gorgeous shots'' in film history. Cinematographers who worked with him - and would argue about what they were doing - tended to get Oscars for how beautiful the films turned out. |
* [[Scenery Porn]]: If the film is based outdoors, be it the West in Monument Valley Utah or [[The Quiet Man|Ireland in Mayo County]], you are looking at some of the most ''gorgeous shots'' in film history. Cinematographers who worked with him - and would argue about what they were doing - tended to get Oscars for how beautiful the films turned out. |
||
* [[The Western]]: what Ford is best known for. His classics - ''[[Stagecoach]]'', ''[[She Wore a Yellow Ribbon]]'', ''[[Fort Apache]]'', ''[[Rio Grande]]'', even the ''[[The Searchers]]'' - practically defined the black-and-white morality tales of the West that dominated cinema from [[The Thirties]] to [[The Sixties]]. |
* [[The Western]]: what Ford is best known for. His classics - ''[[Stagecoach]]'', ''[[She Wore a Yellow Ribbon]]'', ''[[Fort Apache]]'', ''[[Rio Grande]]'', even the ''[[The Searchers]]'' - practically defined the black-and-white morality tales of the West that dominated cinema from [[The Thirties]] to [[The Sixties]]. |
||
| Line 40: | Line 40: | ||
[[Category:Directors]] |
[[Category:Directors]] |
||
[[Category:John Ford]] |
[[Category:John Ford]] |
||
[[Category:Trope]] |
|||