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I would take Jimmy Stewart over John Wayne.
papavillars":1qhcflwi said:Just wish the duke would have married an American!
Who did the duke marry?papavillars":26s8zqeq said:Just wish the duke would have married an American!
Dave":2vzvawmu said:Clint Eastwood vs John Wayne ????? In what manner?
A fist fight I am taking John Wayne. I believe that he was the bigger and strong of the two.
In a gun fight I am taking Clint. He just seems quicker and meaner.
A knife fight? It is a toss up. John would try to punch Clint who would try to go for a gun....... if John lands the punch he wins. If Clint gets ahold of the gun he wins.
At handling cattle? I know that yelling, screaming and shooting your pistol in the air doesn't work so I don't think I would want either one of them around when I was working cows.
As actors? What they really do for a living. I enjoy the work both of them have done. But I think that Clint has play a wider spectrum of roles in his acting career and has done a better job of that.
JHH":2dsltm6b said:Dave":2dsltm6b said:Clint Eastwood vs John Wayne ????? In what manner?
A fist fight I am taking John Wayne. I believe that he was the bigger and strong of the two.
In a gun fight I am taking Clint. He just seems quicker and meaner.
A knife fight? It is a toss up. John would try to punch Clint who would try to go for a gun....... if John lands the punch he wins. If Clint gets ahold of the gun he wins.
At handling cattle? I know that yelling, screaming and shooting your pistol in the air doesn't work so I don't think I would want either one of them around when I was working cows.
As actors? What they really do for a living. I enjoy the work both of them have done. But I think that Clint has play a wider spectrum of roles in his acting career and has done a better job of that.
John Wayne was actually a very good cattleman. Owned lots of Herefords ( bar 26 ranch I Think)
My pick Is both. Each has there own way and each was very successful. We need more People like these two in todays world.
you ever see Paint your wagon?? when he acted under his company malpaso that was the case, he had his own posse of actors to..inyati13":2vthufzk said:1. Think about this 3way. Sit Clint down at a table with a patch over his eye playing cards with a chinaman and think how silly he would be. Wayne did that in True Grit and was endearing and funny at that.3waycross":2vthufzk said:I will go with Eastwood. To me he is/was a lot less contrived.
He is a lot more versatile!
2. Put Clint with Robert Mitchum in El Dorado and have him put a Winchester over his shoulder and swagger down the street. He would look silly.
You can go on and on. Think about Searchers. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Red River etc. Eastwood is not more versatile, he is less versatile in my opinion.
IMPORTANT: Whayne could interact with another actor. Eastwood cannot. Eastwood can confront or intimidate, etc. That is what made him. But in no role I can remember could he interact. For example, Whayne could play with a sidekick like Walter Brennan and not seem goofy. When Eastwood plays it has to be as a dominant independant. He has not skill to seem real when he really has to act. Like someone said, he had good scripts, but they are basically all the same. A dominant, independant force. He never was able to share the screen. He tried, i.e., what ever that goofy movie was with Burt Reynolds. And in the Oranutang movies he had a side kick of sorts but those could not be compared to Whaynes numerous side kicks like Walter Brennan, etc.
Think about Eastwood in White Hunter, Black heart trying to be John Huston. As Bigfort said he looked goofy. And I loved those spagetti movies when they came out and I saw them the first time in a theater. But I cannot even sit for 5 minutes on one now. Like Bigfoot, they are so goofy.
I like Hang Em High, Wales, Unforgiven. Other than that t is hard to watch Eastwood reruns. Wayne on the other hand, I can still watch a lot of them.
really :shock: the only person i thought did a good job in that was the girl .... i like Bridges.. but he sucked in thatAlan":1dbobbod said:I will say this and it's no way a knock Wayne, I thought the later true grit movie with Jeff Bridges was better the John Wayne's true grit.
Are you kidding. I read a comment by Bridges that trying to act like Wayne was the hardest thing he ever did. He admitted it may be impossible to act like Wayne.Alan":2aewaol2 said:I will say this and it's no way a knock Wayne, I thought the later true grit movie with Jeff Bridges was better the John Wayne's true grit.
Only if it was he that wrote the script.JHH":tqu1drwz said:One of my favorite sayings is from John Wayne ( were burning daylight )
ALACOWMAN":1u7827yf said:really :shock: the only person i thought did a good job in that was the girl .... i like Bridges.. but he sucked in thatAlan":1u7827yf said:I will say this and it's no way a knock Wayne, I thought the later true grit movie with Jeff Bridges was better the John Wayne's true grit.
ALACOWMAN":1dzo93bl said:one of the worst attempts at acting was Johnny Cash you wanted him to be good but it wasnt meant to be