Red River Movie Analysis

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From Cowboys and Indians to the United States Cavalry. That’s right, I’m talking about western movies, these movies have it all. Out of all the famous westerns that just about everybody knows, the one that stands out has John Wayne and Montgomery Clift as the two main characters. John Wayne starred in plenty of movies during his acting career, but the best one John Wayne starred in was Red River this movie is also known as The River is Red both were released on September 17, 1948; although most people don’t think of John Wayne as the fatherly type, but reading this just might change their minds. Thomas Dunson is a man of character and is most definitely a man of his word. From the very beginning of the story Dunson proves to everyone …show more content…

Red River is the best because it is the most realistic movie in the Western genre. “Howard Hawks had great respect for John Wayne. "He's a damn good actor. He does everything, and he makes you believe it," Hawks later commented.” Unlike most movies we watch today Red River still has it’s characters keep its’ beliefs of God. Dunson shoots people who try to come and take his ranch from him after Dunson shoots these people he does a reading from the bible over their grave; nevertheless the culture well it speaks for itself. Most people know that the cowboys had their cattle drives and brandings, but what a lot of people don’t know is that Red River shows the culture in ways people haven’t seen before. The scene of the cattle drive is actually the first cattle drive on the Chisolm Trail. “Matt goes away to school, but returns in 1866 just as Dunson is preparing an epic drive to take 9,000 head of cattle north to Missouri.” Later in the movie Dunson starts to become tyrant like in the way he wants things done, and how this cattle drive is supposed to work out. Believe it or not Matt actually starts the revolt against his own adoptive father; while some men stand strong with Dunson most of them felt it necessary to go with Matt. Whether or not revolts on the cattle drive were an often thing it was common to have the guys who thought they could always get the job done

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