Since most of John Wayne movies are easily predicted, they are often criticiz

ed. Stanley Kauffmann states,” Out of this view of the past that reflects the vantage point of the present, a touching elegiac film might have been made, but this script is absolutely awful (24).” Jay Cocks, Dying in the Saddle, adds, “ The Shootist is deliberately low keyed and sometimes affecting. But it is hampered by a sentimental, over wrought script and, finally, by its own reserve. The movie keeps the rigid bearing of a kid trying to sit still at a wake (72).” I feel what Cocks was trying to say, is John Wayne movies are old and boring. Kauffmann says, “Pictures about young people predominate of course, and always will, because young is sexier and youth has a wider range of options (24).” Which what he was actually saying, to me, is younger people of today are not r

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