If I were to 'acknowledge' that the Bantu and the Zulu were 'great' and went on to say that modern Black Americans were 'digger ex-Africans' would you consider that remark racist, or would I get a break, too? And if Thursday isn't the villain, then who is? Or is this the first John Ford Western (indeed, the first Western) without one?
@proffromgview[sarcasm] You're right of course no one can ever understand, appreciate or enjoy a film that wasn't made in the immediate vicinity to where they grew up. [/sarcasm]
Fonda's character acknowledges in the first moments of this Englishman's clip that Cheyenne and Sioux were "great" tribes, as opposed to the cowardly bandits that he says the Apache were. That isn't "racist." One group of Indians he sees as noble opponents, the other not so noble. Also, he describes LTC Thursday as a "villain." Not so. He was ruinously wrongheaded but not villainous, imo.
@proffromgview #1 Not really sure what your point is here, Cox is talking about Ford's westerns in this doc, he's talking about the history of the place as it was depicted in Ford's Hollywood tales. #2 I know New England is in America but it is surely almost as different from monument valley, geographically and culturally then Old England is! Nope I don't think a British director has ever made a good western but British directors have made plentry of good films that aren't set in Britain! #3 OK
@proffromgview You realise John Ford was from New England? Obviously films that are made and set where you grew up will be special to you but to say that anyone whodidn't grow up with that culture and history can't understand them is kind of obnoxious.
