Just curious, but why do people like John Wayne so much? - General Discussion Forum

Joetherocker · 2011-03-06T02:53:39+00:00

I've been wondering about this for a while now. I saw True Grit in January, and heard a bunch of my dad's older coworkers saying it was terrible because it wasn't John Wayne's version. So I found John Wayne's version and thought that all the acting was...really, really bad. John Wayne was better than the other two main characters, but I still thought he was really overacting and exaggerating everything he did way too much. So I figured that it was just that one movie, and watched some other ones and that was the way he was in every movie. The same goofy, overacting cheesiness. What am I missing?

Topic: Just curious, but why do people like John Wayne so much?

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Oregano
Mon 14th Mar 2011

To say he played the same role all the time is a bit unfair because even now most actors play variations on the same role. Johnny Depp, just as an example from this thread, pretty much always plays an awkward, kooky but charming character.

The reason he's revered is that he defined the role. The cowboy archetype was shaped by him. But looking back he wasn't that great of an actor but it's easy to look back and label something cliche when in fact those cliches originated from that work.

That sounds a bit rambly...:/

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