Johnny Guitar (1954)

Mustanaamio7's Movie Diary 2023 (58 movies items)

"5.11. 2023 "Johnny Guitar" is a quite unusual western directed by unusual and incredibly creative director Nicholas Ray. During the time of harsh censorship American filmmakers couldn't talk about many relevant issues directly but they had to use metaphors if they wanted to say anything at all. The film has a feminist message rare for its era: women can be as competent but also just as immoral as men. The film is also an allegory of Red Scare and a precise depiction of mass hysteria: Joan Crawf"

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" Notes: To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of such old Westerns. Anyway, in this genre, I have to admit it, this movie was not bad at all and I definitely had a weak spot for the damned thing. Indeed, it was especially neat to see a Western with a woman playing the lead and, even though Joan Crawford always thought that Mercedes McCambridge was stealing the show in this movie, I was above all impressed by Crawford after all. Eventually, the biggest issue with this movie (or biggest draw, depend"

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" Notes: To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of such old Westerns. Anyway, in this genre, I have to admit it, this movie was not bad at all and I definitely had a weak spot for the damned thing. Indeed, it was especially neat to see a Western with a woman playing the lead and, even though Joan Crawford always thought that Mercedes McCambridge was stealing the show in this movie, I was above all impressed by Crawford after all. Eventually, the biggest issue with this movie (or biggest draw, depend"

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"Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar upends nearly every convention of the traditional western. Its eponymous hero (Sterling Hayden) is a sensitive soul who wields only six strings, not a six-shooter, and contrary to the panoramas for which the genre is known, the vast majority of the film occurs indoors, using the restricted settings to concentrate focus on the characters’ psychological states. But the biggest aberration of the film is that its conflict, propelled by belligerent men seeking to prev"