#the shootist

[colorhollywood]

James Stewart in different decades:

1938 with Ginger Rogers (Vivacious Lady)

1949 with June Allyson (The Stratton Story)

1954 with Grace Kelly (Rear Window)

1962 with Vera Miles (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)

1976 with John Wayne (The Shootist)

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

The Shootist (1976) - John Wayne

One of my favorite John Wayne films.

[all-action-all-picture]

Clint was such a fan of John's wallpaper that he got a shirt made out of the bits that were left over.

The gentleman on the right in the full picture is Don Siegel who was directing the Duke in The Shootist at the time and directed five Eastwood movies too.

[gameraboy2]

The Shootist (1976), movie poster illustrated by Richard Amsel

[docholligay]

Anon, I'm not going to answer your question directly because whether you meant it or not the phrasing of the question is INSANELY loaded and I legitimately cannot handle a shitstorm right now but:

No, I'm not doing anything and I haven't even listened to the songs and I'm not watching and this is borne of no viewpoint more layered than, "I am struggling to take part in things I enjoy lately" which is why I haven't picked up a book in weeks or written anything I wasn't forced to in almost half a year or done any crafts, barely paid attention to Passover, or even hardly baked if I didn't have to. Sorry if that is in fact a boring answer.

[bacallbazaar]

Lauren Bacall in stills from The Shootist (1976).

[omercifulheaves]

The Shootist (1976) Saw this years ago on cable with my dad and the passage of time and seeing it edited for television had me remember it as more in line with your more traditional John Wayne westerns, just that he was really old in this one. Then I saw it again this weekend and instead was presented with one of the bleakest, most bitter mainstream westerns this side of Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid. The story of an old west legend who can’t accept that *this* is how he’s going to go out...played by a legend of western films that also is pretty pissed off that *this* is how he’s going to go out...and so decides to just commit suicide by rival gunslinger. And even then he’s denied the blaze of glory he wants to go out in. And of course, it’s Don Siegel so the violence carries the exact same horrific bluntness you’d see in crime thrillers like Dirty Harry, only it’s able to weaponize the fact that it’s All-American Film Icon John fucking Wayne shooting people in the back and then finishing them off with a shot to the head while they lay there defenseless. Maybe an even more effective example of taking Wayne’s screen persona and warping it into something darker than even The Searchers. No surprise David Webb Peoples cites it as a big influence on his script for Unforgiven. Was lucky enough to snag a copy of Glendon Swarthout’s novel recently. Definitely need to dig it out and give it a read.

[oneofusnet]

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[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Happy 70th Birthday to 2x Academy Award Winning, 4x Emmy Winning, 2x Golden Globe Winning, Grammy Winning filmmaker, producer, actor Ron Howard! ^__^

[valereth2]

Birthday presents

I got $120 and used some of it to get Breath of the Wild and Kung Fu Hustle

[picatea]

Finally playing a stressed out apothecary and unlike my Dark Angel, Marion's maxed out the interrogation and investigation skills.

He's got great a bedside manner, I swear.

[classicwoodie]

J.B. Books (John Wayne, in his final film role) is an aging gunfighter diagnosed with cancer who comes to Carson City, Nevada at the turn of the 20th century. Renting a room from widowed Bond Rogers (Lauren Bacall) and her son Gillom (Ron Howard), Books is confronted by several people of questionable motives, including a man seeking to avenge his brother's death and a few who are looking to profit from Books' notoriety. Not wanting to die a quiet, painful death of Cancer Books devises a plan to go out with a bang. John Bernard Books sets out to get shot in the line of duty rather than fight a terminal illness. In his remaining two months, Books settles scores with old enemies, and manages to reaches out to new friends in the process.

Respect🔫

[wolfled]

tag dump. ( finally. )

[weirdsociology]

hey writers we have to talk.

if you've read any romance or fanfic in the past twenty years (i know you have), you know that there are a certain number of scents associated with hot dudes. you can probably recite the list of Things Men in Fic smell like in your sleep: leather, black pepper, pine, sandalwood, "something uniquely him", clean sweat, and if the character has ever fucking been within 50 yards of a firearm, something called "cordite".

here's the thing.

NO ONE SMELLS LIKE CORDITE.

cordite was a highly specific type of smokeless gunpowder developed in the 1890s by england specifically and used mostly in wwi.

if your good-smelling guy is not (a) english (b) using a very specific type of british rifle (c) dying in a trench in flanders, he does not smell like cordite. technically even if he does meet all those conditions he still doesn't smell like cordite because he smells like trenchfoot.

the point is, cordite is so far from universal that no one but the most hardcore gun nerds give a single shit about it. making your Sexy Hero smell like cordite is like naming a cassette-only bootleg live recording from the 1970s as your favorite grateful dead album. everyone at the party hates you immediately and knows you're doing it for clout. also, it's just factually... wrong. please stop. i know everyone else is doing it, but you can do the right thing here, i believe in you.

so what do people who are using guns smell like?

well if your story is set before the late 1880s, the smell of a fired gun is black powder, which, unfortunately, smells like seventeen flatulent cows have been shoved in a tire factory. trust me, you do not want your Hot Dude to smell like black powder. it's b a d.

if your story is set after the late 1880s, guns are using some variety of modern 'smokeless' powder - which speaking broadly doesn't really have a ton of scent when used. it does have some, but it's sort of non-descript: the best way i can describe it is the sweet, ozone, hot-plate smell of popping your car hood with a warm engine.

people who use guns a lot don't smell like fired guns all the time anyway, so while those scents might work in a fight scene, they're not realistic all the time. but there are some things that your Sexy Shootist will smell like basically 24/7 and that's metal and gun oil. metal you can go and sniff (i recommend non-stainless steel), but if you want a reference, most gun oils have a sharp, organic smell that's not dissimilar to canola oil but muskier and with a tang overtop. it's not unlikely leather is in the mix as well due to routine handling of leather equipment and gear. modern gear also tends to have a certain smell although it varies by production country and storage conditions - lots of opportunities there.

in conclusion: gunslingers and hired killers and military folks can be sexy and smell great on page, but i am begging you not to say "cordite" when you mean "gunpowder" ever again. we can do this. we are writers and therefore pedants. i believe in us!

[pilgrim1975]

John Wesley Hardin – Gunslinger

Texas. The Lone Star State. A state famous and notorious in equal measure for its outlaws. Bonnie and Clyde, Ray and Floyd Hamilton, ‘Tex’ Lucas and the notorious “Cowboy” gang that moved into Arizona and ruled Tombstone until the famed gunfight at the OK Corral all spring to mind. But before all of them there came an outlaw as feared, yet also as celebrated, as Texas has ever known and his name…

[the-arcane-eye]

EARLY HELLSTRIKE

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