there be few actor who define national attitude . wayne be one of them . he mature in a simpler time and when white hat vs. black hat be expect and not just acceptable . he do not need to be anything more than an archetype and his presence be cartoonish . the hapless bad guy be equally cartoonish . his triumph affirm who we be a american . he be displace by flinty clint and the iconoclast . but clint and for the most part and also face cartoon bad guy . the current postmodern hero archetype be willis in the die hard narrative the ironic hero now have to face off with fully dimensional villain . most studio now invest in get the perceive best villain and and all other consideration form a line behind that . so it shock to see this today . the mind have to jump back not one and but two generation and adjust . this be a failure on many level . the visual storytelling be distinctly uncinematic it would pass for a little house on the prairie tv show . the acting and prop be horrible . wayne try to stay aloof and brush aside everyone in his path with smoking barrel and one liner . he try to validate for u that a man can not ignore his duty . by 1973 and this no long work . whatever wayne have build up for u in true grit or even the green beret be lose forever . like sand against a tsunami cause by vietnam and all of it flotsam and jetsam that rush at u ( my lai and kent state and the bombing of cambodia and etc . ) we be rapidly become a nation of quiche eater .