“John, boy, you could be a hero!”
Hello cowboys and cowgirls!
Last week we were writing about inspiration in the Western genre, and we got quite a bit of feedback on the inspirations. Thank you for your comments, you are true lovers of Westerns!
We have seen the occasional film by John Ford in your posts as well, therefore we would like to give the famous filmmaker a spot in today's news, especially because his work has influenced numerous equally famous directors: Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, François Truffaut, Orson Welles and many more.
Consequently, it should dawn on you that even though the Western genre has never had much direct contact with gaming as an art form, there is likely to be an ounce of John Ford in Wild West Dynasty.
John Ford, a commander in the US Navy as a serviceman, made several classic westerns in his time, but none of them won one of his six Academy Awards, the Oscar. He shot most westerns up to 1950, apolitical and romanticising the time of the Old West. After that, his output diminished, and his films became more pessimistic than in his early years. The westerns, however, were significant.
He directed only The Searchers in the 1950s and only a few more films in the 1960s, including the noteworthy The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.