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The terms are synonymous and while I think Horse Opera is cooler and more descriptive term I heard 'oater' in the interview about the subject and it just kind of stuck in my mind that way. LOL
I never heard that. Of course the interview I was talking about was with Johnny Carson in the 80's before there was an internet (publicly accessible internet the is).
Guilt over having lived through the concentration camp by using the identities of others. Her wanted to be judged and punished by the Nation of Israel for the crimes he felt he committed against other Jews.
Bruce Dern said in an interview years later that he wished he'd never taken the role. Men threatened him, old ladies spit at him and kids threw rocks at him all because he shot John Wayne in the back.
I get that you're half way joking here and please take this response as polite conversation not trolling or trying to start an argument.
Wayne's character was trying to keep the boys from growing up too fast. Remember the conversation between Mr. Nightlinger and the Madame about how a boy's first time should be in with a young girl in a buggy and not some sterile transaction with no feelings or emotions involved?
He and Roscoe Brown tried to keep them from the violence too. The boys themselves felt they were forced get the cattle back and take them to Belfouche in order to get the now widow Anderson her money. Sure there was some aspect of revenge as well, but I felt that the director tried to show (using the shots of their faces after cutting the reins) that in the end, even though the boys did what they thought was right, it changed them and not for the better. That the whole thing had taken something from them, and that something was their youth.
I saw an interview one time that talked about this issue. Wayne, Ford and O'Hara had talked about making the movie (based on a short story I believe) for about 10 years at this point in time. They were getting down to the wire with it too, since they felt that both Wayne and O'Hara would be to old for the characters. Wayne was under contract with RKO had a good relationship with Republic president Herbert Yates so he took Ford to meet with him and pitch the movie. Yates thought it was a "nice little Irish story" but not movie material. Wayne and Ford argued their point and Yates finally relented, then Ford told him he wanted to actually film on location in Ireland and insisted on Technicolor. Yates relented but only after Ford and Wayne agreed to make three B&W oaters (Fort Apache, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande) for him first in order to make sure he got his money out of the project.
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