Women in Hawk's movies

The women in his movies tend to play hard to get and usually act aloof. They're also suspicious of the other women in the main mens' lives. They're also sort of crazy. in Rio Brazo, Feathers test John Wayne's character love for her. I suspect that this is something common in Hawk's films. The women also tend to talk a lot.

Stagecoach

I Thought this was a pretty good movie. Storywise I think it's well developed. The characters are based off historical figures, but ford doesn't rely on this fact to make his characters interesting. Each character must deal with his or her own problem and ultimately overcome them. All of them overcome their problems eventually, since the heroes usually do, but it's somewhat hard to foresee this because so many sacrifices were made by the time of the end of the movie.

I also thought the use of the door shots were interesting. I remember seeing something similar in the samurai film Good Samaritan: Zatiochi.

Western I've Seen

Westerns are considered a dying genre, but some have been made in recent years. I have not seen many westerns. I don't know why. The only recent western I've seen was True Grit. I'm still kicking myself since I've never seen There Will Be Blood. I'll get around to seeing more eventually.

Hong Kong Action Movies

fact 1: Chinese cinema didn't take off until around the 70's and 80's

fact 2: A lot of Chinese movies are dubbed over in Vietnamese. I know this because my mom has hundreds.

fact 3: buy a suitcase fool of vietnamese bootlegs. none of them work.

fact 4:  China is to action movies as Korea is to soap operas.

fact 5: Stephen Chow is awesome director in the present and you should watch all his movies.