The Manifestation of Heroism in John Ford’s Film “The Searchers” (3452 words, 4 pages)
Where Twain and Buffalo Bills writings deal with the emergence of the Anglo-American hero, John Ford deals with the manifestations of that hero in his film The Searchers. John Wayne, in his anti-heroic role as a bigot and intolerant, is a tragic, lonely, morally-ambiguous figure who is doomed to be ...
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