Wednesday, May 14, 2025
To be a vengeful woman in the Far West is like suicide
THREE AVENGERS, SIX
VICTIMS, PLUS EXTRAS!
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/three-avengers-six-victims-plus-extras-92bb56b620d1
I am starting a full
coverage of about 12 films by or with John Wayne. I have hardly watched his
films at all in the past for various reasons, like killing Indians, and because
my late eldest brother only swore by them. He was a fly taken by the sugary white
caucasian racist crystallized approach of these primitive, if not barbarian,
Indians. It is high time to reassess this actor and his films. They are built
with a lot of stereotypes that target the Western public after 1945, and even
beyond. It was an essential cultural apparatus targeting that public to enable
the USA to play a leading role in the world.
True Grits is symbolic
of ultimate crimes with the number three of the Christian Trinity, and the six
– maybe seven, who knows, the Holy Week? – victims lying down in the dirt like
a yellow Star of David, abandoned by some Auschwitz “tourist” that had no
return ticket. Not easy to be a woman in this world and to look for vengeance,
which is unacceptable in any decent world of decent decency. The Trinity again.
Jacques
Coulardeau uploaded a paper
To be a girl in the Far
West was like being an elephant in a glasshouse. It breaks or it takes, but it
takes a lot more than plain charm.
THREE AVENGERS, SIX PLUS EXTRAS
by Jacques Coulardeau
2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
Criminal Justice, * Violence, * Cowboys, * John Wayne, * Vengeance
