User talk:HaroldFranklin
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I'm a liberal-leaning American, and I liked John Wayne as an actor. I agree, though, that using the term "icon" twice in the intro is overkill. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 13:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Well I have always been a liberal and Wayne's one-note acting wore a bit thin after a while. I agree entirely that his introduction was too much in his favor, as it is for other stars as well. (HaroldFranklin 12:13, 16 September 2007 (UTC))
Never spoke to John Ford, but I spoke to Wayne and any number of members of the Ford Stock Company. I have a copy of the the Horse Soldiers shooting script in front of me (signed by Ford, by the way), and the ending scene reads "With a wave back at Hannah, Marlowe spurs his horse across the bridge just ahead of the explosions that destroy it. Hannah gazes after him as he rejoins his retreating troopers and gallops off...." Not a word about "maybe he gets killed." In fact, exactly the opposite. The sequence on screen does not depart from this. I don't want to get into an edit war over something so trivial, so I won't. But it seems to me that you're pushing an idea into the reader's mind with this item that just isn't supported by the material. Even without reading the script, I'd seen HORSE SOLDIERS twenty times or so and never once had it occurred to me that Marlowe might even possibly have died. The implication is much stronger that Marlowe and Hannah will meet up again after the war. (cc'ed to Wayne talk page) Monkeyzpop 19:06, 16 September 2007 (UTC)