John Wayne is the undisputed king of wooden planks in acting roles. If he wasn't so earnestly lousy, his movies could have been taken as satires as his characters were like satire. of wood.
What else was there, his stunning portrayal of Genghis Khan? "You look beautiful when you're angry" from that movie is the one quote that pops in my head when I see his name.
A "man's man"? Because of his one dimensional cartoon characters that got off on the same hate he spewed IRL? What else was there about him? Cigars *cough cough*?
Real men are real men, they don't need cartoonish portrayals of them on the screen as laughable carboard cutouts in order to show the world they have actual pubes.
Last I checked, those who love the USA love the USA. They too have no need for Confederate flags that those who wish to overthrow the USA wave while the fakers pretend to give a damn about anything but the fetid cesspools they're stuck in waiting for a Yankee carpetbagger to play instant plastic messiah.
I don't like racists. Plus he couldn't even act. Go figure.
I'd ask what his redeeming qualities were, but having been around when he still was, I know he hadn't had any.
John wayne was a known racist, '71 playboy interview where he said he believed in white supremacy to the point black people are educated in responsability yadda yadda and '73 oscars when he tried to confront native activist Littlefeather when she "accepted" Marlon Brando's Oscar for best actor. It's ok to be coy or denial, it was a different time.
