Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Rio Bravo (1959)



Wonderful film with a view of humanity that is complete crap: don’t ask for help, even when you need it; don’t say you love someone, even when you do.  If you just act tough, everything will work out in the end.  What bullshit!  

The characters are caricatures; reducible to the nicknames each is given.  But they are deep caricatures, having only one note but a note that reverberates deeply like the sound of a gong being struck.   

John Wayne imposes him masculinity on the screen; truly remarkable the way he dominates everything around him, even at 50+ years old. 

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