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Rating: Q=7, P=5 / Can't Get Enough
Scale 1=3, Scale 2=4, Scale 3=3, Scale 4=2
Western, Family, Changing Times & Values, Dramatic Dialogue
A classic Western has many elements: a man who struggles to find his place, a dramatic and life-changing event, questions of morality, and desolate but beautiful scenery. Hud has all of this with the added bonus of setting the story at nearly present day (early 1960s). The Texas plains fill the screen with dust and openness, the father-son conflict is believable and tense, the societal shifts from life on the range to moneymaker makes you reflect. Even though the title suggests the main character is Hud, played magnificently by Paul Newman, to me it is a story about the young nephew Lonnie. It is Lonnie who starts the story searching for his uncle and eventually he finds him, along with himself.
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