{"id":3883,"date":"2005-11-15T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T20:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2022-10-09T20:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T00:48:43","slug":"john-wayne-appreciation-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3883","title":{"rendered":"John Wayne Appreciation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, by Peter Bogdonavich:<\/p>\n

There’s a moment in Rio Bravo<\/i> — which features, I think, Wayne’s most genuinely endearing performance — when he walks down the street of the jail\/sheriff’s office toward some men riding up to meet him. Hawks frames the shot from behind — Wayne striding slowly, casually away from camera in his slightly rocking, graceful way — and the image lingers a while to let us enjoy this classic, familiar figure, unmistakable from any angle, Americ’as twentieth-century Hercules moving across a world of illusion he had more than conquered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n