At first blush, I thought that John Ford moment in Roland Emmerich’s Midway was surely over-the-top, a parody, like the semi-silly Bruce Lee bit in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood…
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
So I trekked to the film academy’s Margaret Herrick Library, to learn where Ford actually fit in the Midway battle. Film scholars will know, but I only discovered, that John Ford—whose filmmaking career is among the most heavily chronicled in Hollywood history, with over two dozen biographies currently on the shelf—really was directing the action at Midway. A Navy commander on assignment to the Office of Strategic Services, in charge of the brand-new Field Photo unit, he arrived on May 28, apparently steered by a vague instruction that action was pending.
But Ford, in the interim, laid track that would be followed by disruptive, independent-minded documentarians for the next 75 years. Though he was an officer in the Navy, he despised both bureaucracy and the very notion of propaganda. At Midway, according to Dan Ford’s “Pappy: The Life of John Ford,” he told McKenzie: “Photograph faces. We can always fake combat footage later.
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