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<blockquote data-quote="hard_r" data-source="post: 1708720" data-attributes="member: 9837"><p>Bruce Willis, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Reginald VelJohnson, Alec Baldwin, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Will Smith, William Shatner, Jason Statham, The Swaze-Dog, Jimmy Stewart, Joe Pesci, Michael Cera, Vin Diesel, Jack Nicholson, and the list goes on. Including Wayne. They all were made famous with the same character type and continued down that path. Is it great acting? No. Acting implies range. But it sure makes for some good movies. It's not a slight against the Duke to say he wasn't a good actor. I'm just saying that just because we like the character, no matter how many times we see it, we shouldn't hold it up on a pedestal and claim it took a feat of acting greatness to achieve it.</p><p></p><p>John Wayne played a great John Wayne......a bunch of times. And some of those times were in great movies, True Grit included, but did he ever try branching out? Even when he played Genghis Khan, he played it as John Wayne, not Genghis Khan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hard_r, post: 1708720, member: 9837"] Bruce Willis, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Reginald VelJohnson, Alec Baldwin, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Will Smith, William Shatner, Jason Statham, The Swaze-Dog, Jimmy Stewart, Joe Pesci, Michael Cera, Vin Diesel, Jack Nicholson, and the list goes on. Including Wayne. They all were made famous with the same character type and continued down that path. Is it great acting? No. Acting implies range. But it sure makes for some good movies. It's not a slight against the Duke to say he wasn't a good actor. I'm just saying that just because we like the character, no matter how many times we see it, we shouldn't hold it up on a pedestal and claim it took a feat of acting greatness to achieve it. John Wayne played a great John Wayne......a bunch of times. And some of those times were in great movies, True Grit included, but did he ever try branching out? Even when he played Genghis Khan, he played it as John Wayne, not Genghis Khan. [/QUOTE]
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