As most as you know William Wyler was a Jew Born in Austria. He tried hard to understand the American mentality. if such thing exists. The Americans liked that and gave him 4 Oscars. But his view of the West it not the standard view. Why?
1 - The hero is not a hot-headed, trigger fast American of the westerns...HE is someone like British Navy's Admiral Nelson, with the exception that Nelson did not went ashore into the desert of Egypt, because his crew of sailors would die of disease or Napoleon's army.. This man is a strategist. Most American's (even Today, Warren Buffett excepted) are not.
2-It shows that Americans, have no moral values.. This is illustrated mainly by the opportunistic acts of Pat Terril (Carrol Baker, very well directed) and the sensible,strong and resistant behaviour of Julie Maragon (Jean Simmons) which is a grand-dougther of a Spaniard).
3 - So that no doubts are left, Wyler ends the movie with an Englishman, a Spanish descendant woman and a Mexican humble servant as winners.
Rightly so, Mr Wyler. Many Americans are trash...Even today...
1 - The hero is not a hot-headed, trigger fast American of the westerns...HE is someone like British Navy's Admiral Nelson, with the exception that Nelson did not went ashore into the desert of Egypt, because his crew of sailors would die of disease or Napoleon's army.. This man is a strategist. Most American's (even Today, Warren Buffett excepted) are not.
2-It shows that Americans, have no moral values.. This is illustrated mainly by the opportunistic acts of Pat Terril (Carrol Baker, very well directed) and the sensible,strong and resistant behaviour of Julie Maragon (Jean Simmons) which is a grand-dougther of a Spaniard).
3 - So that no doubts are left, Wyler ends the movie with an Englishman, a Spanish descendant woman and a Mexican humble servant as winners.
Rightly so, Mr Wyler. Many Americans are trash...Even today...