As I watched the movies being shown on TCM and Westerns Channel celebrating his 100the Birthday, I realize people from my generation and people from places like Latin America tend to hate John Wayne. To them he represented the Ugly American and American arrogance and imperialism. Well, they are wrong. He was simply one of the greatest movie icons of all time.
His reputation as a war mongering conservative was probably based on his pro-Vietnam war movie "The Green Berets". But forget about that one. Watch the beauty of "Red River", enjoy his great acting in "The Searchers" one of the great movies of all time. See his sense of humor in movies like "Hatari!", "True Grit" and even "Rio Bravo".
And say what you will, he was an actor who truly dominated the screen. He had charisma and such presence that any movie he was in inmediately became "a John Wayne movie". Ask that of Orlando Bloom.
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