The Oregon Ducks football team has the day off so I thought I would post about something else. Surprise! I was cruising around the Internet today and found a wonderful essay by John Kaufman ( click on the title for a link) about my favorite movie Director John Ford and John Wayne. A few quotes from the Essay:
Between 1928 and 1962, John Ford and John Wayne made twenty pictures together Their films changed the role of the hero in American film, transformed the ways in which we saw ourselves and turned a druggist’s son from Iowa into the greatest movie star of the postwar era....
John Ford was Oscar nominated as Best Director for Stagecoach (1939) and The Long Voyage Home (1940). He won the award for The Informer (1936), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and The Quiet Man (1952). Ford’s four Oscars were more than has been won by any other director.
John Ford and John Wayne made films together over the course of four decades. In doing so, they wrote an important chapter of The Great American Myth. We are a young country minus the ancient tales of older lands. Films like those of John Ford have become our legends.
Just as sure as the turnin’ of the Earth.
Read the rest of the essay because it has a good summary of the 20 movies they made together.
When college football is over for the season I will have their movies to get me though the dark days of winter, AND the 2008 Presidential election..... how long till The New Hampshire Primary! How can people get bored in life there is so much going on.
PS check tomorrow because I will be listing the college football games Oregon Duck fans should care about this weekend even though the Ducks have a "Bye" on Saturday.... and about South Medford's state of Oregon, high school playoff game Friday night with Barlow here in Medford. We have our tickets!
