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Post by themanwithnoshame on Feb 4, 2017 10:15:40 GMT
Big Jake isn't that old. And Brando was probably trying to be revisionist. Need to check it out myself.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2017 21:35:54 GMT
What Big Jake are you talking about...Brando isn't in it .
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 18:01:30 GMT
LOL. "Big Jake" starring John Wayne. Haven't seen it since I was a kid.
The Brando film he was referring to is "One Eyed Jacks".
Brando, with the help of various writers, producers, directors, tried to stand the whole 'good guys/bad guys' theme on it's head. One of my favs, but you have to like Brando, otherwise, forget it. It has more in common with spaghetti westerns than old Hollywood.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Feb 7, 2017 15:51:17 GMT
Richard Boone here is one of my favorite western heavies, along with John McIntyre in The Far Country, Lee Marvin in Liberty Valance and Robert Duvall in Joe Kidd.
Otherwise, the film apes the two western sensations of 1969, Butch Cassidy and The Wild Bunch (with the violent opening). Wayne's character is also a bit more vicious than usual. If not for his motives you could easily mistake him for a villain.
I could really do without the Butch-style tone in the opening.
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Post by Sulla on Feb 21, 2017 3:50:24 GMT
My favorite character is Dog.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 22, 2017 20:00:17 GMT
Great movie and John Wayne is great in it. Many of the old westerns are more violent than some people like to pretend these days. A lot of the hipsters these days like to think they invented violence in movies. They didn't.
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Post by TroyMcLure on Feb 22, 2017 22:28:50 GMT
As a little kid, I loved westerns and John Wayne was my hero. For my fifth birthday, my parents took me to see Big Jake at the local cinema. In those days, I believed that what I saw on screen was actually being played out live somewhere behind the screen and projected onto it. On the way there, we passed a field with some horses. My dad pointed them out, saying those were the horses they'd be using in the film. I totally believed it and tried to spot John Wayne's horse. Of course, when we got there, I wasn't allowed in: Big Jake was rated AA - 14 and over. So we went to see The Million Dollar Duck, instead. I hated every minute of it and have never watched it since. Many years later, when I finally got to see Big Jake, I had to concede - definitely too violent for a five year-old kid.
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Post by mitchell1975 on Feb 24, 2017 3:07:47 GMT
Didn't like it too much, some really bad line delivery and comical elements... the acting is so emotionless, no one seems concerned about anything .. Jake finds out 10 people he knew got killed then hes laughing about something 1 minute later, none of what happened seems to bother Maureen O Hara
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Post by airborne3502 on Mar 4, 2017 1:42:40 GMT
Richard Boone here is one of my favorite western heavies, along with John McIntyre in The Far Country, Lee Marvin in Liberty Valance and Robert Duvall in Joe Kidd. Otherwise, the film apes the two western sensations of 1969, Butch Cassidy and The Wild Bunch (with the violent opening). Wayne's character is also a bit more vicious than usual. If not for his motives you could easily mistake him for a villain. I could really do without the Butch-style tone in the opening. Boone was excellent in Hombre.
That movie has some of the best dialogue in any Western. My personal favorite: John Russell: Hey, I got a question for you. Cicero Grimes: What's that? John Russell: How you gonna get down that hill?
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Post by Marv on Mar 4, 2017 14:52:22 GMT
Many of those early westerns are plenty violent. They just lacked the effects to make gruesome bullet wounds look realistic, so the majority of the time a person just falls over face down when they're dead.
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