Tag: High Noon
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How Gary Cooper Went From Washed Up To Winning an Oscar for a Western
For classic Hollywood legend, Gary Cooper, his most iconic role in his later years came so close to never happening. In an alternate universe, studios and executives follow through on their false intuitions and never cast the actor in the celebrated 1952 Western, High Noon. Today, Cooper is indelible as Marshal Will Kane, and the…
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How ‘Django Unchained’s Box Office Taught Hollywood a Lesson
Westerns are one of the most instantly recognizable movie genres on the planet. If you show someone a picture of John Wayne or a cowboy riding off into the sunset, they’ll immediately understand that those images belong to the domain of Who Shot Liberty Valance and High Noon. However, the Western is also one of…
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This Is the Best Sheriff in a Western
It’s unfortunate that the Western genre has been occasionally responsible for perpetrating toxic traits within its supposedly “heroic” characters. While the genre has the potential to show what differentiates wholesome lawmen from cold-blooded killers, the two often grow intertwined when a film’s morality becomes as hazy as the dusty landscapes of its setting. There a…
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How ‘High Noon’ Helped One Country Achieve Freedom in the 1980s
The Western has long been a symbol of American independence. Ever since the Civil War era, stories have been told mythologizing Western icons into larger-than-life legends. Be they lawmen, outlaws, cowboys, or gunslingers, Westerns remain timeless and universal, despite being tied to a specific historical place and time. Among some of the best Westerns ever…
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What Was the First Movie Rental Service?
We live in a world today where the option to watch a film is literally at our fingertips, where you can download The Super Mario Bros. Movie while waiting for Junior to wrap up soccer practice. In fact, the current generation is unlikely to remember watching films on any sort of tactile format. The generation…
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High Noon at 70: the politically loaded anti-western adored by US presidents
Loved by both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, the 1952 convention-defying film is like a political Rorschach testAmong the most notable fans of High Noon, Fred Zinnemann’s unusually circumspect and politically loaded western, are two US presidents: Ronald Reagan, who considered it his favorite film, and Bill Clinton, who reportedly hosted 17 screenings of it…
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Kevin Bacon Joins Netflix’s ‘Leave the World Behind’ – Film News in Brief
Kevin Bacon and Farrah Mackenzie have joined Netflix’s “Leave the World Behind,” joining Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke and Myha’la Herrold in the film based on the bestselling novel by Rumaan Alam.The story revolves around a couple vacationing in a rental house on Long Island, who are surprised when the homeowners arrive bearing news…