Podcast
Behind the Bastards
It was mentioned as one of John Wayne's last films, and it was discussed in relation to his declining health and his portrayal of a dying gunfighter. The podcast viewed it as having a touch of self-awareness.
two of his very best performances in his career were filmed really late in it when he's an old guy, the shootest and true grit,
— Episode: Part Three: John Wayne: A Dude Who Sucke...
Episode: Part Three: John Wayne: A Dude Who Sucked
It was mentioned as one of John Wayne's last films, and it was discussed in relation to his declining health and his portrayal of a dying gunfighter. The podcast viewed it as having a touch of self-awareness.
two of his very best performances in his career were filmed really late in it when he's an old guy, the shootest and true grit,
the basic plot of The Shootist is there's this old gunfighter who's dying of cancer, like Wayne was kind of at the time.
And he wants to engineer a last gunfight to kill himself.
And instead he gets shot in the back and killed, which is like a weirdly, like suggests a weird amount of self-knowledge for John Wayne that like, that's the movie he goes out in