Why did John Wayne refuse to join Clint Eastwood in a sexy West

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In the early 1970s, John Wayne, who can be said that the largest movie star in the twentieth century was making a reasonably profitable films in a decent, impressive clip of a man who lost lung due to cancer. Although he seemed older than what he was (a secondary result of heavy smoking, severe drinking, and the very long hours he spent under the sun’s rays as an actor and flexible in the open air), he felt that he had to continue making films that adopt conservative values ​​for their elderly fans, and whether they like it, or not, those who are lagging behind the fake, and the Bahr of the war.

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More times, Wayne’s films in the seventies of the last century felt, but the actor, now in his 1960s, was ready to modify his image in order to keep up with the tastes of the cinema pioneers. After Wayne Dirty Harry rejected by Don Siegel (Sorry decision), he starred in a courageous police drama. It also allowed himself to be killed in “The Cowboys” by Mark Raidl as a way to teach young people a lesson about what it takes to be a man.

Wayne was ready to try things, but when it came to sharing the screen with the man who stole it as a favorite Western star in the world, the Duke was nothing of them. On the one hand, this was surprising; Regarding his political views and his public mood, Klent Eastwood was not all different from Wayne. But when the younger star approached the Western symbol through an attractive scenario of skilled type Larry Cohen technician, Wayne Broscwell refused. Why had he died against working with Eastwood?

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While talking to Michael Doyle, author of the book ” “Larry Cohen: things of gods and monsters,” The classic writer and director told me the horror such as “God that”, “It is alive”, and “S: The winged snake” told a disappointing story about how Wayne over and over again, over and over again, angrily The show was dropped to participate with Eastwood in a promising project that was then called “runners”. The film had starred in Eastwood as a young gambler who wins half of the old weapons farm in the poker. The two men remain to protect their properties and a young woman (who were sweet) from a crowd of thieves, which would have given Wayne the opportunity to do it Discount the last western dust (in “Rio Bravo”) With Eastwood.

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However, Wayne was not in a mood to pass the flame at this stage of his career. Eastwood refused the first time that he was skeptical. At this stage, Cohen believed that he could persuade the huge Duke by sending a copy of the scenario to the son of the star Michael, who agreed to hand over the text of his father Cohen while the couple was outside on a weekend boat. According to the younger Sen, his father was bored of his mind, and therefore, open to read a book to pass time.

According to Cohen, this is in reverse results in degrading fashion. Also, Doyle said:

The following week, Michael put on the phone and asked him about what happened. He looked at him for a few minutes and then said, “This piece of s *** again!” Then he threw it into the sea. I thought quietly for myself, “Oh, there is a beautiful scenario, slowly drowned under the Blue Pacific Ocean with the hopes and dreams of Clint Eastwood and Bob Barbash!”

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Unfortunately, Eastwood will not make the movie with anyone other than Wayne. Cohen, director of the legendary actress such as George C Scott or Bert Lancaster, put in the role of Wayne, but Eastwood was not interested in moving forward without the Duke.

While Cohen described that Wayne will see the greatest sorrow in his career, he can at least take little condolences to know that Wayne’s resistance was more related to Eastwood’s films than the scenario.

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Although this is true that Wayne felt that Cohen’s scenario was something from the western references, it was more postponed by the films that turned Eastwood into a kind of kind. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan, Eastwood said the Duke was once written A letter raised in 1973 “High Plains Drifter”. For every Eastwood, “he said that it was not really about the people who were pioneering in the West. I realized that there were two different generations and that he would not understand what I was doing.” Hi Blinz Defter was supposed to be a myth;

That message ridiculed any hope for Wayne and Eastwood the big screen. (He did not have the first opportunity to soften his decision because he died at the age of 72 in 1979.) As for “The Boytiles”, Cohen finished selling the script, which he participated in writing with Bob Barbash, to Halmark in the late 2000 for $ 200,000. The screenwriter said that he did so only to send half of the money to the widow and the deceased Barbash and her family – and this is a good thing that he did not invest in the project on this late date because he hated the movie they made from. To what extent could the movie, which was titled “Gambling, Girl and Weapons”? Dean Caen was filmed in Eastwood. Which – which bad.

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