Though Wayne and Eastwood are forever married to the Western genre, their relationship was fractured and uneasy, leaving them with no collaborations.
John Wayne and Clint Eastwood are easily the two names best associated with the Western film genre, but the two of them never starred alongside one another in a picture and actually experienced something of a feud from the 1960s. Whereas Wayne had been a mainstay in the genre since his acclaimed breakthrough role in John Ford’s Stagecoach , Eastwood – nearly 25 years Wayne’s junior – didn’t arrive until his unveiling as a leading man in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy .
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Though it would not be fair to blame Eastwood for the emergence of the gritty spaghetti Western subgenre which refuted the classic Western’s unending romanticism for its depicted era, his elevation to gunslinging mainstay was only possible because of Sergio Leone. Just as Wayne and Ford are forever synonymous, as are Eastwood and Leone.
Clint Eastwood & John Wayne Represented Two Different Generations The landscape of the Western had changed drastically by the end of the 1960s. Not only had the revisionist subgenre captured the hearts of audiences, but spaghetti Westerns especially had rewritten the laws of the genre entirely. A Fistful of Dollars – a shot-for-shot remake of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo marked the dawn of a new age of cowboy pictures, spearheaded by Eastwood, Charles Bronson, and Franco Nero.
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