hi all,
I always enjoin when I read a movie magasin and they talked about movies like Shanghai Noon with Jackie Chan, I dont know If you know the movie but Jackie Chan played Chon Wang (John Wayne).
And the movie name is from Hign Noon. And that stand in the magasin they always talked about the legend John Wayne not the actor but the Legend.

I saw on televion the Cannes moviefestival and there was an interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger to promote his new movie Terminator 3.
And It was his dream when he comes to America, that he wanted to be a moviestar just like John Wayne.

And I always enjoin that, maybe you have some more examples from actors from now that talking about John Wayne, I'd like to hear that.

cya Jwfan

To double up on Arnold, when promoting The Last Action Hero (in which a kid is able to join his favorite movie star in an adventure) he said, that's what he himself always wished for: To ride along with John Wayne when he saw him as a kid in an Austrian movie-house. I think Arnold is a big JW fan!

To add a story of myself, when I was fortunate enough to interview Harrison Ford, I asked him in which films of the past - if he'd had the chance - he would have liked to be in. His answer was: in John Ford's films. Of course, I blurted out: In a part that John Wayne played??? And Harrison Ford, taken aback, said in that deeeeep voice of his: "I didn't say I wanted to be like John Wayne." That guy's protective of his image! ;)

Oh - now I got distracted and am writing about something that wasn't asked for by the topic starter - something I don't like myself when I start a topic: sometimes they just seem to wander off, damned to wander forever between the winds.

So I'm getting "John Wayne - Le cow-boy et la mort" from my bookshelf, written by Eric Leguebe (don't know if that one was also published in the US), anyway that author managed to get a collection of famous stars's quotes about JW. Here it comes but beware - I'm translating from French to English, both ain't my mothertongues, so you better don't give a damn about accuracy:

JAMES CAMERON (director of Titanic)
It's JW for whom I have the most admiration. I intended to have the scenes in ALIENS (he means part II) in which they fight off the monsters to be a hommage to The Alamo.

JOHN CARPENTER (director of ESCAPE FROM L.A.)
One day, Michael Wayne asked me to do a picture about his father, something like I did on Elvis Presley (he means the Elvis-Picture with Kurt Russell). The film was to be called The John Wayne story. I refused. Because I found it impossible to find somebody resembling him. And because my admiration was to great, I respected him too much.

MICHAEL CIMINO (director of THE DEER HUNTER)
The reason why there is a JW statuette in the scene in the appartment of the police officer in Year of the Dragon: because I found in reality in many interiors of NY police stations they have JW pictures (so this one we could add to topic "Is JW really Luke Skywalker")

LOUIS DE FUNES (now you people in the english-speaking world might not know him but in Europe, about 20 years after his death, he's still regarded as one of the great comedians)
His passing touched me very much. It was an honest man who has gone...

RICHARD DONNER (director of Lethal Weapon, Superman)
I loved JW. He couldn't do wrong. His films meant all to me. You know how they would turn out but you spent your 2 dollars nevertheless. That's escapism.

BLAKE EDWARDS (director the Pink Panther)
I always loved westerns. My first hero was always JW.

STEWART GRANGER (North to Alaska)
He wasn't a great actor - he was a monument of 7th art. I admired him in the Shootist.

CHARLTON HESTON
Of the 10 best films in the history of cinema, there would be a John Wayne western. Everybody can have his own pick which one this should be.

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON (country singer)
When I was a kid, I listend to the songs of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers... and I watched all the JW movies. I guess his shadow fell on me then.

LOUIS L'AMOUR (writer, Hondo)
JW always impressed me. For him I always had the greatest respect.

SERGIO LEONE (Director, Once Upon a Time in the West)
JW and John Ford, those were the ones I've always appreciated in America. Hollywood was the echo of the frontier. And Hollywood without Wayne means Almeria and Cinecitta (that's where Leone did his Spaghetti westerns) would have to be the real death valleys in the death of the cinema (boy is he cryptic don't know if I got that right).

JOHN MILIUS (director/writer, Conan, Red Dust)
I've given his first name to my own son. Not the name of the man but the name of one of his best characters (he's talking about ETHAN).

Leonard Nimoy (Spock)
Since I was a kid, my hero was JW. One day, at a reception at Paramount (Nimoy must be talking about the year of 68 or so, when he already did the Star Trek series and JW was at Paramount - because in his quote he says it's 1963) suddenly I felt hands on my shoulders and somebody said: "Tiens on vous a rendu vos vraies oreilles!" (now JW didn't say that in French but I can't quite translate this one - must be something about Spock's ears!). That was him!

GREGORY PECK
I always was an admirer, I think True Grit was a masterpiece. Not even Laurence Olivier could have played Rooster with such greatness.

RIDLEY SCOTT (director, Blade Runner)
The cinema that made me dream was the one of John Ford, and especially, the films with JW. The Searchers was their most beautiful.

GLORIA SWANSON (Sunset Boulevard)
In my eyes and in my heart and in my consience - the thre best actors, not in alphabetic order, are Laurence Olivier, John Wayne, and William Holden.

There's more, but now my fingers hurt!

Oh, itdo, THANK YOU for sharing that, for typing your fingers to exhaustion, for translating! What a labor of love!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

"Mrs." Chester

Itdo thank you for the Information, I never knew that great actors like Charlton Heston and Gregory Peck has respect for John Wayne and that they love his movies

This was great to read,
Really thanks

cya Jwfan.

Itdo
thank you for the info, it 's great that you took the time to write all this down

Thank you
Brian
Tulalip Wa

itdo :huh:

Thats Terriffic :P

printing it out :lol: I love the information :lol:

Monique ;)

Sh-h-h-h-t! Interesting about Chuck Heston: He was an avid admirer of JW. In a new VHS-bio he is interviewed about him, and in his own book "In the Arena" (intresting read, by the way) he talks about "The Longest Day": Heston was trying to get to role of Vandervoodt - but when Zanuck courted JW who eventually said Yes, Chuck wasn't to be part of the film. He took it with good humour: "I was the 100-pound gorilla around Hollywood. But of course Duke was the 250-pound-gorilla"

Yo Itdo That information is brilliant thanks very much.

Your correct about Charlon Heston being a big he once said that Red River ranks as maybe the best western ever made and that John Wayne has created a permanent place for himself as the American Film star.

Angie Dickinson said "John Wayne is thee all American, he was just such a real guy he was so genuine"

Ron Howard stated about Dukes performance as Ethan Edwards "Im nor sure you could get a major hollywood star today to play that role with the utter intensity and darkeness that he brings to it".

John Waynes last public appearance giving the oscar for best picture to the Deer Hunter, was the only time in oscar history that more people tuned in to see the presenter than the actual winners etc of the awards. Everyone knew Duke was playing out his final days and they had organised a tribute in which about 60-70 people came out from behind the stage (fans and admirers) to say hello to John Wayne two were Yul Byrnner and Gregory Peck.

When Duke was in hospital in 1979 he was visited by Henry Fonda the nurses wouldnt let Fonda see Duke becuase Duke was too ill Fonda said that he wasnt going away until he seen him.

Does anyone know what people like Eastwood, Rob Mitchum, Brennan, Hank Worden etc had to say about the Duke that would be very interesting.

Cyas

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Bruce Springsteen's favourite film as a child was The Searchers.Even he likes Duke or at least used too B)