Toby Kearton is a British independent award winning director, screenwriter & producer.
He is best known for the independent short film 'Dissonance' (2018) as well as the short films 'The Little Picture' (2018) and 'The Dust Child' (2018). He has recently announced his involvement in his feature film directorial debut.
First-time viewer: thanks, you GOT me. An excellent analysis, and really deepens the movie for me: your words help reinforce what Ford's brilliant imagery put in my mind and emotions, especially Ethan walking OUT at the end. NICE. On of my favorite Hollywood scenes is in this movie: not only is it amazing ensemble acting, and YOU try keeping everybody lit and in focus!!!, but it shows how Ward Bond really IS an American Treasure, and that he was as much a Force of Nature as !!!BRIAN BLESSED WAS!!! "OH DONUTS - THANK YOU SISTER I'M SURE FOND OF THEM DONUTS HA HA HA" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zn-0LOPnQNw.html
Nice. Sharing with peeps. If I may be so bold, Ethan’s madness is predicated by the civil war. Having seen horrors unimaginable as a soldier, he returns to the family fold only to have the horrors pursue him there. That is the meaning of scene 1. That is what drives him mad. Also, the Indians are not taking the road less traveled for cinematic effect but to stay out of rifle shot. Finally, “won the battle but not the war” is not applicable to the man.All he does is fight battles. He is a Paladin.
Also in scene 1: At the end, he flings the buckskin cover off his rifle, like a warrior drawing his sword and casting away the scabbard, signifying a fight to the finish.
Very well done review. The book "The Searchers" goes into much greater detail about Ford and Wayne. Ford's Navahos, which played Commanche, Apache, whatever he needed in a film, prospered greatly from his repeated movies made there in Monument Valley.
The more I find out about this film, the greater it seems. I've read the book by Alan Le May and would highly recommend it. John Fords adaptation is, well words are not good enough. My only regret is that I've never seen it on a cinema screen. Would look great.
When I hear the song " What makes a man to wonder " I think if my Dad and I watching this when i was young , I'm 70 now and my Dad died a long time ago , but i still tear up . I usually watch this every year.
If film and equipment had been affordable for everyone, digital would never had happened. But they do that shit on purpose to keep off of the hands of the masses. They did it with printing, radio, and television. They are so afraid of the people having the power to communicate on a massive scale like the elite do.
no one in the audience eats the film base... price isnt production... the vantage points taken seem to be of those less aware of the content of the frame as presented..
It's really odd to me to be so attached to video artifacts caused by the act of running film cells behind a lense. The advantages of digital are undeniable.
“When this baby hits 88 miles per hour you’re gonna see some serious shit”! I’m not gonna lie, just listening to the main theme gives me chills how good this movie franchise is
I don’t think you understand the historical happenings this film depicts. For example, the rage the Texans felt upon getting one captive back who had been raped, burned and had her nose cut off is what is being portrayed here in the first scene. Pure rage and anger. Hatred, for the “inhuman” acts of the Comanche.
The Searchers: huge points for cinematography, but little else-------acting, dialogue and script all mediocre----maybe most over rated movie on everybody's best list
Thanks for contributing to more anti-Vietnamese propaganda! Typical plot where the Americans are the heroes and Vietnamese people are the “bad guys.” I’d advise you to do actual research on the Vietnam war before going off and making these shorts and movies where you romanticize thousands of innocent women, children, and families deaths all while continuing to play out this toxic ass Eurocentric narrative. Watched an interview with the director and he described the Vietnam war as a “Great, great, war” and it really disgusted me as a Vietnamese American whose parents were stripped from their homes and community and every day wished that it had never happened in the first place. The director even went on to claim that he wanted to show the “passionate side of the Vietnamese and the passionate side of the Americans” when the basic plot here is: “Good American soldier tries to save Vietnamese citizen and then gets tricked and dies.” Where’s the “compassionate” Vietnamese person here? You’d really have to make the plot stretch a ton to get to a place where you could claim that you’re painting an even moderately “compassionate” Vietnamese character here. Not to mention that the director doesn’t even seem to be American OR Vietnamese? It isn’t your place to talk about the Vietnam War especially when you’re not even doing proper research on it. Try reading books and resources on the Vietnam War that’s not written only from the American POV and then *maybe* you can start claiming to capture both of the compassionate personalities of the Vietnamese and Americans. By the way, no hate to anyone who was forced to be drafted into the war by America. I’m against the concept of positioning America as a “savior” to nations that are at war when the real intent behind America’s involvement is to control whatever “side” wins and to further spread American military bases. Fuck wars, fuck romanticizing wars, and fuck America’s savior complex.
both are necessary 1-digital for easy to start as beginners to reach the chance to rise the artistic quality to be capable to attract the budget to use FILM as mother tongue the FILM Negative reels 2-Film to keep legendary quality of historical artistic soul of the motion picture as 7th ART THE CINEMA.....
As digital has come a long way since Lucas's last 2 prequels. Though films shot or blown up in 70mm are vastly better. I saw Wonder Woman in digital and 70mm blow up . 70mm was clearly better. And going back to the 80's when big films often had 35mm and 70mm blow up prints. The 70mm prints were better. I was lucky enough to catch Indiana Jones and the last crusade in 70mm and it was spectacular. 70mm on DVD or Blu Ray aren't as noticable unless you have a high end flat panel tv. Tron on Blu Ray is a spectacular achievement when watching it on a highly rated tv, you get an idea when 70mm is capable of. I own Tron on Laserdisc in the mid 90' that was remaster from the 70mm print...it was the best Laserdisc I've ever seen.
Great analysis of the visuals. The visual storytelling is so important to John Ford's films, and the key to what made him such a great filmmaker. You can understand the themes of his films in their complexity even with the audio muted. Good work with this video!
I think about some of the brilliant stuff that can be done now with shooting digitally, horror in particular has so many new opportunities and avenues that couldn’t have been explored before
Film Vs Digital shouldn't even be a contest. All Digital does is give you more tools to tell a story. It's like going from black & white to color. You can still exist within just black & white, but now an artist has more capabilities to express himself. It's actually unbelievable how much George Lucas still receives unwarranted criticism...
The reason it looks better has less to with celluloid and more to do with analog capture and resolution. It's the reason music recorded on tape sounds better, even after converted to digital. Most people have never even seen a film projected through actual film, but they can still tell or feel the difference. Eventually we'll have 20K digital with high enough color depth that it will start to look as good as film in some respects. But it's also the imperfections of celluloid that makes it look good and the difficulty/expense of working with film that makes directors and actors work harder to make each take great. Digital will never replace that, because the entire point is to make things easier.
Mose was the "idiot" but he was right about the folly of leaving the family unprotected, and then put Ethan onto the Mexican who could bring him to Scar, and then finally alerted Martin to the whereabouts of Scar's campsite. At the end, Ethan was alone and adrift, and still had a murder charge over his head.
