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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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01 Apr 2006 05:40:23 AM |
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OT: John Ford |
Mr. Ford's Mr. Lincoln
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11753963/site/newsweek/
A great president inspired a great director to make one of the great
American movies.
Newsweek Web Exclusive
By Malcolm Jones
Newsweek
Updated: 6:58 a.m. ET March 10, 2006
March 10, 2006 - A John Ford movie is a tough sell these days. The
sentimentality, the boys-club atmosphere, the broad humor-where the
only thing funnier than a bar fight is a longer bar fight-these
things don't play well with modern audiences. If movie fans think of
Ford at all, it's as the man who made a lot of John Wayne Westerns.
Never mind that he made more than 140 pictures, starting in the silent
era and going right up through the '60s. His subjects ranged from the
building of the transcontinental railroad to PT boat squadrons in World
War II, from the Okie migration to Mary of Scotland. He won five
Academy Awards. But Ford is not one of those directors, like Preston
Sturges or Alfred Hitchcock or Orson Welles, whose movies always manage
to feel contemporary. His movies hark back to the 19th century in their
outlook and the values they espouse. They are a little antique, a
little prim. Still, they are populist in the best sense: he made movies
for everyone, although not in the dumbed-down sense in which we
understand that today. The best Ford movies operate on several levels
at once. There are things a child can appreciate, and there are deeply
contradictory elements that engage the wisest observer. His
genius-and it took a genius to do this-was to put all these things
in the same picture. Somehow he makes it all hang together.
John Ford
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