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Johnny Guitar
1954 · Film · 110 min
Directed by Nicholas Ray
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.
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> "I'm so proud that I got to play a strong female character who isn't a sexualised or a damsel in distress, or the opposite of that".
The Hawksian woman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawksian_woman
I cannot recommend Ball of Fire and His Girl Friday highly enough. For a more modern Hawksian woman, there is Leigh in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_Precinct_13_(1976_film)
I also really enjoy Johnny Guitar where two strong women essentially lead the movie. I still don't know how it was ever made in its time.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/johnny-guitar-one-of-the-greatest-westerns-and-the-furthest-extreme-of-the-hollywood-system
Complete tangent:
Last year I watched Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), a fairly amusing Spanish farce (Almodóvar, so, you know). In the movie some of the characters play voice actors dubbing an American movie to Spanish and I wondered, what movie is that?
The movie they were dubbing is Johnny Guitar (1954). Which is how I came to discover a film that's now well in my top 10.