Why John Wayne refused to join Clint Eastwood in an exciting western

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At the very beginning of the 1970s, John Wayne, perhaps the largest movie star of the 20th century, made quite profitable films on an impressively decent video for a person who lost his lungs. Although it looked much older than it was (a by-product of heavy smoking, strong drinking and too many hours spent under the sun as an actor and outdoors), he felt the duty to continue making films that support conservative values ​​for his old fans and, or not, those who are worthy of pot.

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Most often, Wayne’s films felt old-fashioned, but the actor, who is now in the 60s, is ready to customize his image to keep up with the change of MovieGoers tastes. After Wayne gave up the main role in Don Zigel’s “Dirty Harry” (The decision he regretted), he starred in the dramatic drama “MCQ”. He also allowed himself to kill in the “cowboy” Mark Rydel as a means of teaching young people a lesson about what he needs to become a man.

Wayne was ready to try things, but when it came to share the screen with the man who darkened him as a favorite Western star in the world, the Duke had nothing like that. On the one hand, it was strange; In terms of his political views and general temperament, Clint Eastwood was not so different from Wayne. But when the younger star approached the Western icons with an attractive scenario from the qualified genre technique Larry Cohen, Wayne Brusk refused. Why was he so dead against his work with Eastwood?

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Talking to Michael Doyle, the author “Larry Cohen: things of gods and monsters”, The author-director of such a classic of horror as “God told me”, “it is alive” and “Q: Winged snake” told about a disappointing story about how Wayne repeatedly that repeatedly angrily He reduced the proposal to restore the star with Eastwood in a promising project, which was then called “hostile”. The film starred in Eastwood as a young gambling player who wins half the old ranch Gunslinger in poker game. Two men remain to protect their property and the young woman (from which they are both sweet) from the horde of the bandits, which would basically give way the opportunity to make Another Western Siege Fall (in “Rio -brava”) With Eastwood.

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Wayne, however, was not set up to the torch at this point in his career. He gave up Eastwood for the first time when he was asked. At this point, Cohen thought he could convince the bewildered Duke by sending a copy of the scenario to his son Michael, who agreed to hand over Cohen’s father’s script while the couple went out on the weekend. According to the younger Wayne, his dad would be sad, and thus open to reading the book to take time.

According to Cohen, it fell in a humiliating manner. As he said the Doyle:

“Next week I got Michael on the phone and asked him what happened. He said, ‘Well, Dad was sitting on the boat, and I handed him a script. He looked at him for a few minutes and then said, “This piece s *** again!” And then he threw him overboard. I thought calmly about myself: “Oh, my beautiful scenario goes, slowly immersing under the blue Pacific, as well as hopes and dreams of Clinto and Bobash!”

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Unfortunately, Eastwood did not shoot a movie with anyone else but Wayne. Cohen posted a star director on legendary actors, such as George K. Scott or Bert Lancaster in the role of Wayne, but Istwood was simply not interested in moving forward without the Duke.

While Cohen called Snub Wayne the biggest heart of his career, he could take a little consolation, knowing that this resistance Wayne had much more relevant to his frustration to the Istwood movies than the script.

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Although it is true that the script of Wayne Helena was something of the revisionist Western, it was more postponed with films that turned Eastwood into their successor genre. In an interview with film critic Los -Angeles Times Kenneth Turan, Eastwood, said that Duke once wrote to him The letter stolen by his Hit 1973 “High Plains Drifter”. Behind Tausud, “he said that it was not about the people who pianged the West. I realized that there were two different generations and he didn’t understand what I was doing.” High plains “had to become a fable; it should not show the watch of the pioneer sea.

This letter pulled out any hope that Wayne and Eastwood if -to share a big screen. (The first never had the opportunity to mitigate his decision because he died at the age of 72 in 1979.) As for the “hostile”, Cohen finished, selling the script he wrote with Bobash Barbash, to Hallmark in the late 2000s for $ 200,000. The screenwriter said he only did to send half the money to the widow and the family of the deceased Barbash – and it is good that he was not too imposed on the project at this late date because he hated the movie they made from him. How bad could a movie that were redirected “Gambling, Girl and Weapons”? Ding Cain was removed as Eastwood. Which ill.

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