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Centauros del desierto es una película dirigida por John Ford con John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond .... Año: 1956. Título original: The Searchers. Sinopsis: Texas. En 1868, tres años después de la guerra de Secesión, Ethan Edwards, un hombre solitario, vuelve derrotado a su hogar. La persecución de los comanches que ...
- Estados Unidos
- Winton C. Hoch
- John Ford
Ethan was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War, returning to his brother's Texas homestead after the war. A group of Commanches, led by the ominous Chief Scar, route and kill his brother's family while Ethan and Martin are investigating a cattle rustling, the Commaches' diversionary tactic.
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- Adventure, Drama, Western
- John Ford
- 1956-05-26
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- Powers and Abilities
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Ethan Edwards is the anti-heroic main protagonist of the 1956 film The Searchers. He is a man who seeks vengeance towards the Comanche, who killed most of his family and kidnapped his niece.
Despite being the central character of the film, Edwards is a very flawed individual. He harbors ethnic hatred towards the Comanches and even attempts to kill his own niece after she spent too much time with them, believing her to be racially tainted.
Edwards is an eternal loner. His actions in mutilating the Comanche to prevent them from entering the afterlife are ironic, as he, in effect, becomes like them. In the famous final scene of the film, he cannot enter the spiritual realm of the chapel, and instead turns to walk back into the desert. Despite his violent nature, Edwards is shown to des...
Edwards is cunning and capable but also cruel and vicious. Despite hating the Comanche, Edwards speaks their language and understands their culture. He is a skilled gunman and horse rider. His military experience grants him tactical prowess in tracking, organizing expeditions, setting up ambushes and similar operations.
Past
Ever since a group of Indians had killed Ethan's mother, Ethan had been very close to his family. He would talk about his interests with his brother Aaron and had in general had a loving relationship with them. Then he had suddenly abandoned them to fight in the Civil War as a Confederate solider against the Indians, including Chief Scar. He had refused to admit defeat during the war, and it's been suggested that he has robbed some Yankee banks during the war right before he had arrived at his brother Aaron's place at the beginning of the film. Some time before the events of the film, Ethan had a recused an orphaned Martin from a Indian slaughter and got to know him as he brought Martin to Aaron's family where Aaron adopted him.
Encountering Scar=
Ethan and Martin learn about Scar's whereabouts, and pose as traders as they are led to Scar's camp in the desert (again Monument Valley) at the head of a long line of Mexican horse riders. When Chief Scar first emerges from his tepee and sees Ethan, they stare each other down, only inches from each other's faces - appearing as reflective mirror images of each other. They greet each other with ritualistic, macho bravado - trading insults. When they enter the tepee to trade and escape the wind, Figueroa points out Scar's wives - four women at the rear of the teepee. He explains how Scar's own two sons were massacred by whites. For each dead son, Scar vengefully took a scalp. Scar has one of his wives get up to hold and display in front of them a lance from which hangs a collection of many whites' scalps. As Ethan and Martin look at the grisly trophies, they glance up to their right to see an older, teenaged Debbie, an Indian squaw of renegade Chief Scar (the assassin of Debbie's mother) dressed in full Indian costuming (a light-brown velvet blouse held by a silver conch belt, and a purple skirt), with braided hair and a beaded Indian necklace. Ethan is shown the medal he once gave Debbie, now dangling around Chief Scar's neck, but Ethan refuses to be taunted and leaves the tepee, insisting on trading with Scar the next day on the other side of the creek. Later, Figueroa tells the vengeful Ethan his fears of what may happen in their next confrontation. Realizing that Scar knows who the searchers are, Emilio wants no part of the "blood money". Camped by a creek, Ethan and Martin talk about their fate - and Debbie's. Ethan reveals how long they have been searching for Debbie - five long years. Suddenly, Debbie appears unseen behind them in a magnificent image - first on the horizon of a distant sand dune. Debbie runs down to where they are camped to join them. Martin sees her first and runs to her at the base of the sand dunes. She tells Martin in private, first speaking only in Comanche, and then in English that they should leave her with her people. However, she poignantly remembers her childhood "from always", but she has been assimilated into the tribe and has accepted her heritage as Scar's wife. Fearing for his life, Debbie warns Martin of Scar's attack and begs him to leave. Behind them, Ethan draws his pistol and orders Martin to step aside. Ultimately, Ethan's first reaction is to kill his "ruined" niece rather than bring her home. In his mind, she has ceased to be white. Now that she has come of age and become an Indian's squaw, he becomes destructive and is determined to kill her. To prevent the murder, Martin shields Debbie with his body, and reaches for his own gun. Before Ethan can get any closer, he is struck in the shoulder by a poisonous arrow from the bow of a Comanche warrior. Their attempts to rescue or kill her ultimately fail, and Debbie remains with the Indians as they flee. A war party of Comanches attack from the ridge and from alongside the river bank. Ethan and Marty barely escape on horseback with their lives, taking refuge and defending themselves from the mouth of a cave. The attack subsides when Scar, donning a feathered war bonnet, is thrown from his horse. Since Ethan is seriously wounded by the arrow, Marty prepares to open up the shoulder wound and "get the poison out". Ethan composes his last will and testament. He names his comrade Martin as his heir (and kin), but disclaims Debbie. Martin refuses to be named as Ethan's heir and condemns Ethan's avenging attitude toward Debbie, his "blood kin", even though she has been living with a Comanche "buck".
•Ethan's Edwards' served as the inspiration for Travis Bickle.
Ethan and Martha. Influence. Comic book adaptation. See also. References. Bibliography. Primary sources. External links. The Searchers is a 1956 American epic Western film directed by John Ford and written by Frank S. Nugent, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May.
- $3.75 million
- C.V. Whitney Pictures
- Max Steiner
- May 16, 1956 (Chicago Theatre)
Argumento. Ethan ( John Wayne) regresa a su casa después de haber estado en la guerra, y al poco tiempo los comanches matan a su familia y raptan a su sobrina. Ethan jura rescatarla y matar a todos los indios que intervinieron en estos actos criminales.
- C. V. Whitney
- John Ford
- Centauros del desierto (España), Más corazón que odio (Argentina, Chile y México)
- Frank S. Nugent
25 de nov. de 2001 · The niece of Ethan Edwards (Wayne) is kidnapped by Comanches who murder her family and burn their ranch house. Ethan spends five years on a lonely quest to hunt down the tribe that holds the girl Debbie ( Natalie Wood )--not to rescue her, but to shoot her dead, because she has become “the leavin's of a Comanche buck.”
John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) opens with the arrival of Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) at his brother’s home in southern Texas, three years after the Civil War has ended. What appears to be a friendly and welcome family visit soon takes on sinister overtones.
