I Watched A Great Movie Last Night

zooamerica Sat, 12/26/2015 - 16:10

Got home last night and turned on the boob tube.  I was wide awake after having two cups of oddly strong coffee after Christmas dinner.      

For about 3 hours, I flipped, and flipped, and flipped back and forth between programs that didn't really interest me.  There's only so much triple D one can watch after eating so much.  

Then I came upon a movie on AMC at 12:30 am that I couldn't stop watching until 3:30 in the morning.    

The Cowboys is a 1972 Western motion picture starring John WayneRoscoe Lee BrowneSlim PickensColleen Dewhurst and Bruce Dern.

There's something about John Wayne that I absolutely love.  He was the king of one-liners.  

He didn't say a lot, but what he said was powerful, simple, and to the point.  

There are a lot of great scenes in The Cowboys that are the kind of subtle, yet poignant metaphors and parallels that made the movie so fun to watch and listen to.  

The dialog between characters was always interesting.  No fluff, and at least two or three scenes that would never make it past the editor's desk today if you know what I mean.      

The most surprising thing to me about this movie from 1972 (I rarely watch movies, let alone old westerns) was how relevant it is today.

Without being a spoiler -----

The innocent boy that made the ultimate sacrifice to find another boy's glasses was Jewish.  

The man who drove the horse carriage was black, with a Muslim father.    

The villain was a ruthless Jew that got carried off with a broken leg by a horse.

The villain puts a rope around the black man's neck.  

The kids hatch a plan, and use guns to do it, and whiskey too. 

    

 

      

  

 

 

 

 

   

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