Monument Valley, on the Navajo lands in northern Arizona, made a sort of movie debut in Stagecoach and, always photographed with opulence, became a defining element in Ford’s harsh, stony West through six subsequent appearances. But even this first time, the valley is not simply a valley, but a valley melodramatized; and the coach is not simply a coach, but the historic mythos of «the West», like Greek temples.
John Ford — the man and his films, de Tag Gallagher
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