Rick's Cafe Americain

Dawn has a terrific post about John Wayne and her own father.  Having read the Noonan article she refers to, I had my own reaction:



I’ve long been a fan of Westerns, but I never much liked old Marion (I’ve always preferred Eastwood’s work in that genre).  The reason for that is that Wayne always played cartoonish “macho” characters who lived in an absurdly (and often literally) black-and-white world.  I was never able to identify with or admire Wayne’s characters, and they were usually too caricatured to enjoy.  One exception, however, is John Ford’s film “The Searchers”.