The Searchers

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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This week Paul & Amy ride deep into Texas for The Searchers! They discuss the complicated legacy of John Wayne, place the film in the context of Western history, and look at The Searchers' influence on directors from Martin Scorsese to George Lucas. Plus: Joely Proudfit speaks to us about American Indian representation in film history, and The Searchers in particular. For Unforgiven week, who would you rather have in your posse - John Wayne or Clint Eastwood? Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer. Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The year is 1956.
0:02.0	Can John Wayne remake the Western?
0:04.0	That'll be the day.
0:05.0	The film?
0:06.0	The searchers.
0:25.0	Hey everybody!
0:26.0	Welcome to Unstooled!
0:29.0	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:30.0	And I am Paul Sheer.
0:32.0	And this is the show where we watch one film from the AFI's top 100 greatest films of all times, 2007 edition, to see if they really are as good as people say, do they hold up and how they influence the films that we watch now?
0:44.0	This week we are watching the searchers, which is a film I've never seen before. Have you ever seen the searchers?
0:50.0	I have. I've been tangling with the searcher for a long time.
0:53.0	I'm very excited to talk to you about this.
0:55.0	This is my first entry point into, I think, John Ford and John Wayne movies.
0:59.0	A lot of stuff there, but actually a lot of similarities between this film and the film we talked about last week, which was in the heat of the night.
1:06.0	Now I watched a lot of Green Book.
1:08.0	I did not finish Green Book.
1:10.0	But I didn't see the similarities and what I saw.
1:13.0	I just felt like it was more driving Miss Daisy than it was in the heat of the night.
1:18.0	Really? You got a road trip movie through the South with one shlobby white guy who screws up everything and one...
1:23.0	He's not shlobby.
1:25.0	You don't think that.
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