These five Californians, including John Wayne and Robert Duvall, have made great Texans in movies.
There’s a good deal of anti-California rhetoric flying around these days here in Texas, with omnipresent bumper stickers and T-shirts saying “Don’t California my Texas.” Of course, some have moved here to “Texasify their Californication.” But the former concern seems dominant. They are the new yankees, attracting more vitriol than modern yankees used to.
The big daddy of them all was, of course, John Wayne. I doubt “The Alamo” along with Wayne’s celebrated depiction of Davy Crockett would ever have been made without his unequaled Hollywood clout – and his money. The movie was a financial disaster, and Wayne lost a disturbing amount of money on it.that Wayne’s appeal as a Texan was that he had this “habitual on-screen character meshed with our fond Texas dream of ourselves.
When he was dying in Montana, he made his friend Capt. Woodrow F. Call promise to bury him in an orchard near San Antonio. He knew Call was like him – a promise had to be honored, no matter how dangerous the enterprise. Kevin Costner, a pretty much a lifelong Californian, played Texas Ranger Frank Hamer in “The HighwaymenI’ve personally loved watching Jeff Bridges’ role in “Hell or High Waterwritten by Taylor Sheridan. Bridges plays an aging Texas Ranger, Marcus Hamilton, one week from retirement, who’s on the trail of West Texas bank robbers.
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