The Times They Are a-Changin .. not know the reason why the sun shine bright film is so little valued and widely recognized in the films of John Ford. It is a fact that we surprised me because without doubt one of his best works at the level of Shakespearean The Passion of the strong (1946) , the Homeric The Searchers (1956) or lampedusiana The Man Who Shot Balance Liberti (1962). Something that also happens to Four song (1929) the best film of the stage moves, a pacifist and militarist lyrical melodrama, without doubt one of his masterpieces is in sight where the importance and weight to be family in his later works .
The Sun Shine Bright is a small film in terms of production as W agon Master, Rio Grande and She Wore a Yellow ivencible , but that was beside Licon Young (1939) a of films which were more satisfied as he confessed to Peter Bogdanovich.
Located within the cycle of films called "American" made by Judge Priest and Steamboat Round the Bend , The bright sun shins contains the germ of pessimism and elegiac to accompany him on Webmail desenvocará its stage and in the doctor's sucidio Catwright in Seven Women (1966) . Surely
Judge Priest (Charles Winninger) does not belong to this group yet romantic losers, Mayor Frank Shefftington form of The Last Hurrah , the gunman Thom Doniphon of Man Who Shot Liberty Balance or the pilot of Spig Wead Written under the sun, but certainly has the leading concept that appears in all the films Fordist: must be firm and strong but tolerant and understanding, and know when to turn a blind eye so that his men might bypass the law.
The temperament of a leader so well embody Fordist Hernry Fonda, in his role as future U.S. president The young Lincoln (1939) or former gunslinger Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine (1946) , is allowing Judge Charles Winninger as Priest, do against the lynching of a young black man who is unjustly accused of rape at the hands of a horde of feverish and excited. Everyone knows that the human being as part of a crowd seems to be unaware of his actions and descends several rungs of civilization, such as Fritz Lang showed us Fury (1931) and Jacques Turneur stars in my crown ( 1950).
Throughout the film, Ford displayed a clear taste for film collective rituals and social gatherings, dances, churches, military. The funeral of the mother of Lucy Lee's The bright shing sun is a good example of Ford's ability to extract all the beauty of these rituals.
The Judge Priest will begin the procession just behind the car where the body will gradually Fasrfield village will go adding to the party, even leaving aside old hatreds of the Civil War and the moral hypocrisy. "Who is without sin cast the first stone" Priest will say Mass in the church by holding a clear allusion to the biblical parable.
After the funeral procession is held in honor of Judge Priest's victory in the election against his opponent Horace Maydew. But there is a paradox in these two collective rituals, which Ted Gallagher said in his work on Ford, and the funeral becomes a celebration almost festive parade and becomes an act of dyes mortuary. The plane of Judge Priest reframed of shoveling through the doors of their house while her inseparable friend plays the harmonica is a mixture of the exclusion of Ethan Edward at the end Searchers and the sad shadow of Frank Sheffigton after its defeat in Last Hurrah . If, as Godard said, are ways that we say it is inside of things, John Ford again says a lot with little. The Times They Are a-Changin ..
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