John Wayne

First of all sorry it has taken me so long to blog just got my computer back on friday.

Coming into this segment about John Wayne I thought that i knew a lot about the man know as John Wayne. I grew up with a dad who enjoyed westerns so me and John Wayne had meet before. I had seen his work in classics like the Alamo and war wagon. With only knowing a few of the movies he worked on i dismissed him as just another famous actor playing cowboy. Come to find out i knew very little about the man know as John Wayne. Just a few of the things that I have learned have changed my view of the him. In my research I found out that John Wayne was not a real name it was a stage name used by Marion Mitchell Morrison. When I first found out this I got a chuckle because the most famous cowboy in American film was named Marion. Then I checked out his filmography I was amazed to find out he had participated in over one hundred movies. I having to sit through some of them as a child thought that I had at least seen most of them, but i was wrong I went and took a look at my dads old VHS's and I found out that I hadn't even seen half of the ones that my dad had. He had 60 tapes in all and looking through them I found 2 that really changed my view of John Wayne as an actor. Those two movies were sands of iwo jima and the longest day. These are two world war two movies that were award winning films back in the day. Wanting to know what these two movies were like I dug up the old VCR and hooked it up to the TV and took a look at the movies. Both of the movies are long but they are some of John Wayne's best work. These movies changed my view of him and gave me good feeling about the searchers.