While I am not entirely sure, I think Joshua Eckhardt and Jamie Burton wrote an analysis on a poem about a movie John Wayne was in. I think the poem had something to do with people watching the movie at a drive-in movie theater. Maybe Native Americans? I liked how it talked about when the movie was over, “back in our skins” I think it was saying that the movie connected everyone through history, but now they were back in reality and not connected anymore because of skin color, i.e. whites and Native Americans. I also liked the part where it said, “[Erdrich] does diagnose [John Wayne] with the disease of western expansion”. I think this means that like every other cowboy in a western movie, Wayne was determined to continue land out west. I just thought using the word “disease” was an interesting way of putting it.
I was thankful to read the short biography about John Wayne! Now I know much more about him. I also felt very stupid, when I read he was Ethan Edwards in The Searchers. I cannot believe I didn’t catch that! I did have small feeling when we were watching the movie that Ethan Edwards was John Wayne, but I was exactly sure. I’m glad I opened my eyes and realized that’s who he is. Wayne sure was in a lot of movies. He was also married three times and had 7 children. Wow. With such an impacting career, I think he is remembered as America’s cowboy.
No comments:
Post a Comment