Fuck John Wayne.
Why?
He's a racist and sexist piece of shit. His legacy is still being used to push the "good 'ol boys" mentality and toxic Christian evengalicalism.
Sexy boi
Try finding a Mongolian dude in 1950s America
1956 was racist as hell though.
Racism was pervasive in 1956. Still is, but it used be to too.
RIP Mitch
Hollywood did not hire people who weren't white, unless they were black and used for a black role, and not always even then, for a very long time. Even today there are representation problems in Hollywood and in other media in general. In other words, America is racist, nice of you to notice.
As somebody who immigrated to the US, I came to conclusion that a lot of the world is far more racist. US is just openly fighting that so it is much more visible.
The US is probably the least racist country or at least a top contender.
People don’t get that there’s going to be problems since we have sizable populations of people from pretty much every country
The US openly fights racism like you said
We’re very vocal about when the US f’d up in the past
Our news is broadcast and talked about everywhere since many parts of the internet have a US bias
And the US cares about trying to have a semblance of equality
'Murica and racism, name a more iconic duo
At least this movie killed him
John Wayne himself attributed his cancer yo his 5 pack a day smoking habit.
Out of a cast and crew of 220, 91came down with cancer, and 46 died
I love that Paul Mooney bit on Chappelle’s Show where he laughs about Tom Cruise playing the leading role in a movie called The Last Samurai. He says “Here’s a movie I want to see: ‘The Last N——r on Earth.’ Starring Tom Hanks!”
Ever seen Breakfast at Tiffany's?
I'm sure I'll never understand that movie or why so many college friends (early 2000's) loved it.
That's ok, though. Aside from this, I doubt I'll think of it for another decade.
Wow, jeez, never seen this before. Terrible.
I'll be invading China now.... Pilgrum.
"The bomb that killed John Wayne"
Or Alec Guiness playing Prince Fasial in Lawrence of Arabia
NGL he kinda looks like the actual dude
I don't think it really matters if he looks like the actual dude. It's rude as hell to pick a generic/famous white guy to portray a non-white historical figure. Some stills of him look really similar for sure but actually watching Lawrence of Arabia he just looks like someone rubbed dirt or bronze on his face and called it good enough
How about Iron Eyes Cody playing the famous crying Indian commercial though he's Italian and spent most of his career running actual indigenous peoples out of Hollywood.
