FlyBackTransformer Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 > A great John Wayne film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 This this a political post related to the ACA? I don't want to report it if I misunderstood it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 John Wayne is the man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Remember the commercials he did? John Wayne I bet regretted being in those cigarette ads. Back during the plot of "The Shootist" (1890-1900) one had a better chance from dying from shootouts than hearing that famous one liner. You got a cancer! Edited by: hamradio on Nov 14, 2013 1:32 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 I guess it mighta been better for Books if Jimmy had said "you have a canker". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Hey, thanks for removing that. While I don't disagree with what you had there (what a mess!), this isn't the forum for it. The Shootist is a very good movie and a fitting end to a great career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Duke did some really great movies in his career, this last one rates with his best. Its hard for me , and many others I'm sure, to watch and not get a little teary eyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 > Hey, thanks for removing that. While I don't disagree with what you had there (what a mess!), this isn't the forum for it. > The Shootist is a very good movie and a fitting end to a great career. Yeah, I shoulda known better. thanks for understanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I was thinking about your original post before graciously editing, you could had made it a relative movie topic about the portrayal of medicine and doctors in films. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/17338.php Maybe your favorite doctor or nurse in movies. Example.. Dr Kildaire Nurse Or this one when you have a bad dental plan. Didn't this just happened recently FOR REAL? LOL! Edited by: hamradio on Nov 14, 2013 8:37 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 One question related to The Shootist; Why did the bartender kill Books? Books wasn't trying to kill him. I don't remember anything being said about him having a grudge against Books. Did he just want to go down in history as the man who shot a gunfigher? Well he got his wish but he paid a high price for it! I cannot think of another actor that had a final film that was as fitting as this film was for John Wayne. While a lot of actor's final film were good (e.g. Bogie with The Harder They Fall), most don't end with the star dying in such a way that makes one feel it was more than just a movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 jamesjazzguitar wrote: << Why did the bartender kill Books? >> According to the IMDB movie trivia page, the *original* screenplay had Gillom Rogers (Ron Howard) shooting and killing J.B. Books (John Wayne) The killing disturbed Gillom so much that he throws away the pistol and leaves the bar, repulsed by the act. Wayne had the screenplay changed so that Books is killed by the bartender, who is then killed by Rogers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I don't like westerns, but I liked this movie. Great cast and great performances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 >Why did the bartender kill Books? For the fame and notoriety that came with killing Books. Dime novelists would write about it and change the story so that the bartender would look heroic taking down a famed gunman who had just shot up the shooter's bar. Newspapermen would also spread a similar story. And Gillom Rogers, who would listen to him versus a businessman just trying to protect what was his. Never underestimate the spin and those who spin the tales. Especially back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Well Books was going to die anyway from cancer and I assume the Bartender knew about that (the whole town did). That would have put his bar on the map. It would have been a major tourist attraction (at least for a while). So this bartender wasn?t a very good businessman. Anyhow, since that killing wasn?t part of the original plot in the book, it explains why it feels ?added on? to me. But to me it works. Seeing Obie killing Books would have been too much for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I never thought this was a great movie. Came off a bit "TV movie-ish" to me. But it WAS pretty good by that standard, and it allowed Wayne to go out with a bit of class still attatched to him. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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