e leej yak feeling to it. the end to the traditional movie west is coming and this film is kind of a monument to that. how many of you did they hire? enough. the western becomes dark by the end of classical hollywood. you see such a change in the united states culture, and i think the western shows that. these films take a more psychological look at the 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 ve got to cock it first. i forgot.
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.
i see it almost as a book end to stagecoach because stagecoach introduces the john wayne character as a young vibrant outlaw. and the 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 shinbone 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 we rewrite history to fit our mythic needs. you didn t kill liberty val ansz. john wayne actually kills liberty val ansz. 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.
both of you. thank you, kyra. we start in texas. exhausted fire crews are battling an enemy is astonishing and relentless wildfires burning somewhere in the state for nearly ten months without any break. today is the 296th consecutive day of work for those firefighters. just in the last week, 120,000 acres have burned. more than 700 homes have burned since sunday and then near austin, a blaze has killed two more people raising the overall death toll to four. jim spelman is in bsatrop near the largest fire in the state. are crews making any progress at this hour? good morning. shift change here. the day crews are ready to head on into the fire. they took advantage yesterday of low winds and cooler temperatures to get in there and get 30% containment on that fire. i thought that was really an incredible amount of progress that they made yesterday, considering how intense this fire was, that it took out 500 homes in about 48 hours of burning time that they were able to mak