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Sandy Dwiggins <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 Apr 1993 15:42:29 EDT
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>         at the end of [The Searchers], all of the characters except
>         Ethan enter a house and close the door, with Ethan still outside
>         symbolically looking off into the desert.
>
> I haven't seen it in years, but I remember a striking shot, repeated
> one or more times, in which the camera follows Wayne from a dark interior
> through a doorway into a dazzlingly bright, spacious desert landscape.
> It mirrors that last shot and foreshadows it perfectly. What a film!
>
> kjf-
>
 
 
Now, I have to see it....Ford was such an amazing filmmaker, structurally
his films are masterpieces...just like Hitchcock....
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