John Wayne was ridiculed and shamed constantly by John Ford on the set of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, but Duke ended up picking a punch up with his co-star.
In terms of Hulu additions that aren’t irritatingly bleak and depressing, there’s also
Spontaneous with Katherine Langford and Charlie Plummer (set in a world where high schoolers keep exploding for some reason!),
Fly Like A Girl (about women trying to become pilots in a male-dominated field), a documentary about Greta Thunberg and her attempts to save the world from climate change, a documentary on WeWork, and the fourth season premiere of
The Handmaid’s Tale. Actually, all of those sound bleak and depressing in their own ways, but at least you can watch a new season of
Chopped and a few
What's New on Hulu in April 2021
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There is a legend of a movie. A movie with a twist so ludicrous, I dare not speak of it, lest you scoff yourself right off of this website, never to return. It is called
Wild Mountain Thyme. It is coming to Hulu on April 25, and you should definitely try to watch it without knowing the ending first. Because it is really, really,
really dumb. (Do you know the twist in
Serenity, the one with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway? It’s dumber than that.)
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It might seem like a movie you’d want to watch anyway: It’s written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, the Oscar-winning writer of
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Last week, the House of Representatives passed a voting rights bill providing for automatic and same-day registration, early voting, expanded voting by mail and other provisions to make voting easier in elections for federal offices. But it can’t pass the Senate, because the Republicans will filibuster it.
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western mold. >> what did you say his name was? the man with the silver-knobbed whip. >> i said liberty valance. but if that's what you got to do, you better start packing a handgun. >> a gun? i don't want a gun. i don't want to kill him. i want to put him in jail. >> oh. >> the man who shot liberty valance is john ford's last great western. yet, it's so different than what preceded. >> pilgrim, you have to cock it first. >> i forgot. >> i see it almost as a book end to stagecoach because stagecoach introduces the john wayne character as a young vibrant outlaw. and at man who shot liberty valance comes back to an older perhaps wiser john wayne character who still has a code. but is much more cynical about the world. >> you put that paper out the
streets of shin bone are going to be running with blood. >> the man who shot liberty valance someone described it recently as the greatest american political film. it's about how rerewrite history to fit our mythic needs. >> john wayne actually kills can liberty valance. jimmy stewart gets credit and becomes false and soon after that, wayne is forgotten. >> who was tom donovan? >> eventually stewart tells it the truth and the newspaper man rips up the story and says one of the most famous lines in american film. >> this is the west, sir. when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. >> he's right. >> westerns are cut and dried. good guy wins at the end. it's always for the benefit. there are no regrets and this is john ford, the man who created an the myth of the movie western as much as anyone. questioning it. saying well maybe, the march of civilization, maybe it wasn't all good.