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* [[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.
* [[Warrior Poet]]: Well Warrior photographer. He was a combat photographer in ww2. It wasn't really rare for an artist(or anyone else of course) to be under fire then. Also some of his characters could be classed as warrior poets.
* [[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]].
** Which actually is a misreading of Ford, as even ''[[Stagecoach]]'' subverts the black-and-white morality of many Westerns and ''[[Fort Apache]]'' and ''[[The Searchers]]'' already did [[Misaimed Fandom|what later revisionist Westerns were credited for]].
***One reason for the misreading perhaps is that not having black and white morality does not necessarily make a show amoral and it is possible to give a protagonist [[Warts and All|warts]] while making him basically honorable.
* [[World War II]]: He not only filmed movies about the great war, he ''filmed'' the war itself in the Pacific Theater. He won two Best Documentary awards (''[[The Battle Of Midway]]'' and ''[[December Seventh]]''), and was wounded at Midway Island during the attacks.
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