The amazingness of Johnny Guitar and Scarecrow

So I got a copy of this 2 christmas's ago from my parents and honestly just hadn't watch it until last nite. which I have no clue why I waited so long.
This film is amazing. I'm not sure if it is a western. I guess it is, it's defently one of the best things I've seen in a while.
It reverses the cliches of bad and good in the west. while also having melodrama and the openining with the howling wind is creepy and strange but has alot of amnosphere.
Joan Crowford owns this movie and shows her vetern actor chops she had at the time. Defently one of her best roles.
the cinemotraphy is this pulp style but also very beautiful.
Man i do like westerns and for a western this is awesome I guess it is a western but man wow. unforently to see this I had to get my parents to buy me a vhs copy on ebay. so it's not easy to find but frankly totally worth it.
Also truffant was a fan of this saying "Beauty and the Beast of Westerns, a Western dream" and also from wikipedia "Truffaut was especially impressed by the film's extravagance: the bold colors, the poetry of the dialogue in certain scenes, and the theatricality which results in cowboys vanishing and dying "with the grace of ballerinas""
also from wikipedia "The film's unusual sexual politics influenced some later Westerns (e.g. Samuel Fuller's 1957 Forty Guns, starring Barbara Stanwyck, revisits the formula of the strong woman. It also influenced foreign cineastes such as Godard, Truffaut, and Sergio Leone[citation needed]. The plot of Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) is partly based on Ray's Western"
this film was directed by Nicholas Ray and this might be his best film. He also directed Rebel without a cause and in a lonely place. He was really coo and his films about rebels were all made before 63 making him predating the later 60's crayz huh.
It's truly unforentate that this is a film most can't see and yeah it is that good but i found some clips on you tube so i will share them below.
the first one is a better scene to get you into it but the second one comes first in the sequence of the film.Actually the first clip is fucking amazing.






This film is obviously a 70's film. Having both Gene Hackman and Al pacino. Hackman just done the posideon adventure (wow what a transition) and his next film would be the conversation.
Pacino put this out between the godfather and serpico.
The director's previous film with pacino panic at needle park. which was one of the few pacino film's before godfather was actually the film he did before the godfather.
So this is in a good place filmography wise.
This film is basically a character study and a really good one. you can tell the influence people like truffant and godard made on 70's film making in america.
This film is crazy to thing it was basically a studio picture and two huge movie stars were coo with doing a character study film directed like an art movie. espically have someone come off one of the biggest films of all time and do this. unforently shock of all shocks it bombed. but it's still awesome. It is somewhat forgotten sometimes but is defently awesome to watch with all the other great films of the 70's.