John Wayne: The Duke and Western Hero

John Wayne was as Marion Michael Morrison 26 Born May 1907 in Winterset in the Midwest of the United States. As Marion, who was always teased by peers because of his female first name, was a child, Winterset resembled the backdrop of one of the many films from the young Marion Michael the superstar John Wayne had to leave. A dusty main street, a few wooden huts. The streets had no name, the houses were numbered sequentially.

This desolate spot left America not suggest that he would bring great. Two names, however, made Winterset then but immortal. Besides John Wayne is from this backwater and the Golden Delicious Apple ...

As a teenager, John Wayne moved westward. He wanted to bring something to it necessarily wanted to study law and become a lawyer. At the University of Los Angeles, he became a star, but not because of too great intellectual power, but because of his athletic achievements at once. Just handed the scholarship that he had received as a football player, front and rear not to live.

Marion Robert Morrison John Wayne biography

Birth Name: Marion Robert Morrison
* Sunday 26 May 1907 in Winterset, Iowa, USA
† Monday 11 June 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Prototype of the Western hero John Wayne

"He was ugly, he was strong, and he had dignity," reads the inscription on John Wayne's grave. The star had a pithy words shortly before his death on 12 Elected in June 1979 itself. Sincerity, masculinity and patriotism were penetrating the ideals for which the Western idol was standing in the film as in life. His death was like a big Hollywood production. As he lay on his deathbed, the first special editions of tabloids published, then starts a television station's first retrospective. Ronald Reagan, later President of the United States and in more recent years, a rather hapless film actor gushed from his example: "No one represents the values ​​of our country as he does." President Jimmy Carter and hurries to the deathbed. Wayne confesses his past sins - and is baptized. Then he dies like a true American. What sets him apart from many Hollywood heroes: he was prototype, not an industrial product.

John Wayne in McLintock - A lovable tough guy!

Movie USA 1963 (Mclintock!)

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The surly cattle baron George Washington McLintock ruled with an iron hand over its territory. Again and again he has to mediate between the newly arrived settlers and the long-established Indian tribes. As if that were not enough concern arises McLintocks prickly, estranged wife Katherine, to enforce the divorce and take the common, almost grown daughter Becky with him. And McLintocks also pretty feisty as housekeeper Louise has its own head.

"Not everything was John Wayne, Baby"

Racism charge against Clint Eastwood

In Hollywood, it is customary to conceal the one million African
Americans who have participated in the Second World War, says director
Spike Lee - Clint Eastwood was doing with his film is no exception.
The Oscar winner is outraged and accosts: A guy like Lee should "shut
up".

New York - "The man is not my father and we are no longer on a
plantation," said director Spike Lee to the Internet service
ABCNews.com. Lee had previously criticized that occur in Eastwood's
World War II drama "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima"
no black U.S. soldiers.

Oscar-winner Eastwood: An "angry old man"
The four-time Oscar winner had it in the "Guardian" replies: "A guy
like he should shut up."

Lee praised the 78-year-old as "great director", which he did not
personally attacked. Eastwood's replica sword, but by an "angry old
man."

He had studied history, Lee continued. "And I know the history of
Hollywood and its omission of the one million African American men and
women who have participated in the Second World War," said the
51-year-old. "Not everything was John Wayne, baby."

In his new film "Miracle at St. Anna," Lee tells the story of four
black American soldiers who are trapped in an Italian village in 1944.

John Wayne The only true gunslinger

Countless John Wayne, avenger of all disenfranchised and Western hero
would now become one hundredth Half his life he spent in front of the
camera for one of his movies and could even take home an Oscar.

John Wayne, the emblem of the cowboys in the American film
about three feet tall, with cowboy hat, western boots and a bronze
hand on the gun John Wayne sits in the lobby of the John Wayne Airport
in Southern California-Irvine. A few miles away in Newport Beach,
where the "Duke" spent the last years before his death in June 1979.
From the liberal Hollywood, the Western hero and patriotic Republicans
had settled into the ultra-conservative Orange County. His birthplace
in Winterset (Iowa) in the Midwestern United States has long been a
pilgrimage site. Every year, over 40,000 fans, the little white wooden
houses, eight times as many spectators as the dump has residents.

With a Wild West Parade, rodeos and cowboy songs can Winterset his
famous son on Saturday 26 May cheer. Exactly a hundred years ago most
male American hero born with the name Marion Robert Morrison here the
light of day. His last film he shot over 30 years ago, but the
broad-shouldered giant is Hollywood's most durable hero. At the annual
Harris poll of U.S. citizens on their screen favorite John Wayne
landed among the top ten every time. According to the Guinness Book of
World Records, he is the actor with the most leading roles. In 142 of
his 153 movies he made as a "Leading Man" - usually as a sheriff,
soldier, officer or Revolvers - set the tone.
Wayne's closest childhood friend was a terrier

Behind the camera he knocked sayings such as "Courage is when you have
fear of death, and still resonates in the saddle" and "I'm an
old-fashioned, thoroughly decent, flag-waving patriot." As a movie
star he was indestructible. He had more stamina than James Cagney and
Cary Grant, who threw in the towel already in his early sixties. He
survived famous contemporaries such as Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper,
Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable.

The son of a pharmacist was four years old when the family moved in
1911 from Iowa to distant California. On the ranch of his father he
learned to ride. His closest friend was a terrier named "Duke" (Duke),
a nickname, which he heard himself happy. First he was bathing the
star of a football team, but with a swimming accident, the dream came
from the sports career. He worked as a "gofer" in the movie studios
and then stood before the camera. Director Raoul Walsh in 1930 gave
him the stage name John Wayne and the first leading role in the
Western "The Big Trail." Wayne fired first as a B-movie Western star
in second-rate order, but his legendary friendship with the young John
Ford finally brought the breakthrough. The director picked him in 1939
for the elaborate Western "Ringo - hell ride to Santa Fe," a breakneck
stagecoach ride through Apache country before the camera.
Critics accused before of glorifying war Wayne

More than 20 films after they shot off together, including "The Horse
Soldiers" (1949), "Rio Grande" (1950) "The Searchers" (1956) and "The
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962). In addition to Western Wayne
turned into the 40s and adventure films like "Seven Sinners" with
Marlene Dietrich, and war movies ("Steel Storm", "The Fighting
Seabees," "They Were Expendable"). In "Red River" Howard Hawks made
him a powerful cattle baron with his adopted son (Montgomery Clift) is
in the clinch. In the legendary western "Rio Bravo" (1959) he gave
Wayne the role of a small-town sheriff, who defended the town against
a gang of thugs.

His proud father onto land seized in 1960 in the patriotic Wayne
Western "Alamo," which he directed and produced himself. The
historical film about the bloody battle of the Texans against the
Mexican army, but flopped at the box office and Wayne fell almost to
ruin. But eight years later, dared the Communists declared haters and
supporters of the Vietnam War back to explosive material. In "The
Green Berets", he sends a Green Beret unit on the canvas in the
Vietnam War. The critics were against Wayne glorification of war and
propaganda.
Wayne smoked up to four packs of cigarettes a day

A year later he stood triumphantly on the Oscar stage to take his
single "Golden Man" Best Actor in reception. This trophy he earned
with the hilarious role of a drunken one-eyed and always Marshals in
the Western "True Grit". At this time the married three times, seven
times the father was already suffering from cancer. 1964 he had a lung
removed. The chain smoker gave up to four packs of cigarettes a day
the debt. Others attributed the disease to the filming of the movie
"The Conqueror" (1956) in a nuclear weapons test site in Utah. Several
crew members had also died of cancer.

With nearly 70 years, Wayne turned his last film, the Western "The
Shootist - The Shootist," in which he plays a terminally ill shooters.
1979 lost hero of the film's fight against cancer. He was 72 years
old. He is buried on "Pacific View" Cemetery in Newport Beach,
overlooking the Pacific. One last wish was denied him, however, to
decorate the grave stone with the Mexican saying "ugly, strong and
dignified."

Jeff Bridges: The man who loves John Wayne

Jeff Bridges plays in the neo-Western "True Grit" once again the
drunken anti-heroes - welcome to the Berlinale!

Too much admiration does not look good. Jeff Bridges (scene with
Hailee Steinfeld) wolter turning on John Wayne's way of playing, "not
even think."

Berlin. These men are truly in their last hour left alone. Throughout
Fort Smith has arrived for the execution of the three vultures. Who
have the final word. "I've killed the wrong guy," says the first
desperate, "so I'm here!" The second one would like to "sing what",
but that does not want the executioner. So there's a black bag over
his head, and down we go ...

True Grit

The handwriting is unmistakable. The Coen brothers have this brutally
funny scene pretty much near the beginning of their film and thus the
tone for their neo-Western "True Grit" set. In their sympathy for the
protagonists, one would hope not so. Throughout history, one can still
experience how one man's fingers are chopped off, and in general
people are dying like flies. Surprisingly this is not. Cooling staged
violence is always an important part of the experimental set-ups by
Joel and Ethan Coen have been. You just have to bloody province
thriller "Fargo" or remember, most recently, in the thriller "No
Country for Old Men." As a filmmaker, he finds violence very
interesting, Ethan Coen said yesterday at the press conference, and
added that one should not merely be overestimated. "In my character is
not."

In fact, Joel and Ethan Coen such thing as the unknown nature of the
international cinema scene. "Touching" they had found the novel by
Charles Portis, they said. That was the motive to film the novel 40
years after Henry Hathaway again. On the other hand, the Coens define
their intentions as follows: "People should go out of our films and
say, '? Look how awful people are, but is not life wonderful'"

Jeff Bridges has just occurred yesterday, the Coens describe as a
genius. The two men from Minnesota for the 61-year-olds are the ones
who made 13 years ago, "The Big Lebowski" with him. A
crudely-grotesque confusion history that flopped at the box office and
only over the years became a cult film, named after the one in Europe,
bars and pubs.

"The Big Lebowski" Bridges has also made her a cult figure. To
"Dude". No wonder that Bridges, who remakes in principle considers
unnecessary, did not say no when he proposed the Coens to play the
role for which John Wayne won his first and only Oscar in 1969.
Speaking of John Wayne. When asked about the meaning of "Duke" there
was only one of the Coens shrug yesterday. They claimed in the old
Hathaway film have not even considered during the preparation for the
remake. O-Ton Joel Coen: "My son is 16, and I think that has no idea
who John Wayne!"

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This flippant remark was Jeff Bridges would nonetheless be on the
Hutschnur, and he bowed himself with the remark before the "Duke",
which he loved. That was one who had gone far in his films about pure
acting. Bridges added that he had the original is not therefore
considered mainly again because he wanted to avoid the danger of
copying John Wayne. "I did not even have his way of thinking to play."

And that's just his thing Bridges. Rightly he has been for the role
of the drunken marshal ("I do not need to buy whiskey - the
confiscatory I"), nominated for an Oscar. Rarely has one seen in a
cinema hero scrapped. Or anti-hero. Because the old Rooster Cogburn it
was nevertheless possible to track down the man who was the father of
Mattie Ross (also nominated for an Oscar: the first 14-year-old Hailee
Steinfeld) was shot in cold blood, but a happy ending, one imagines
different.

But what the heck, with the Coens, there is not a "sentimental".

But Americans rush for this movie for weeks their cinemas, and
yesterday was "True Grit" the honor - albeit out of competition - the
61st Berlin Film Festival to open. To the delight of Berliners, who
lined the red carpet before the premiere at the Potsdamer Platz, and
to the delight of the audience's premiere, the film, the Coens, Jeff
Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld cheered enthusiastically.

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