Talk:Red River (film)

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Somebody forgot to list Rory Calhoun in the credits!

Matt Garth and Tom Dunson were unrelated. I don't know what term to describe the relationship, but Matt was in no way "adopted" by Dunson.--Buckboard 00:47, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sundry opinionated remarks

This entry does not do justice to Red River, arguably one of the 3-4 greatest Westerns ever filmed, and a masterpiece by master director Howard Hawkes. John Wayne's acting is sadly wooden, and his "Beef for a Hungry World" voiceover with which the film opens skirts self-parody. The film was arguably the springboard for Montgomery Clift's career. The tension between Wayne and Clift is ironic, given what we now know of Clift's homosexuality and Wayne's homophobia. The cattle drive scenes were difficult and dangerous to shoot, as they featured thousands of authentic longhorn cattle. Dimitri Tiomkin's rich Russian score powerfully contributes to the film's iconic character. (A decade later he composed the theme for Rawhide.) When I refer to a piece of music as being like the score to a Western film (e.g., "Jupiter" from Holst's The Planets), it is Red River I have in mind. The start of the cattle drive features editing and split screen techniques that Sergei Eisenstein would have admired.

The ending feels strangely forced. Dru's monologue, delivered unrealistically while pointing a .38 at Wayne and Clift, is a concession to American Christian optimism. A European director would have ended the film with Wayne being hanged for murdering Clift, and Dru walking into the sunset with a broken heart. Wayne represents traditional American macho, Clift the New Man of sensitivity, and Dru the strong American woman whose ascendance renders male conflict silly and irrelevant.Concerned cynic 18:59, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

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