Josey Wells is violent - but justifiable because of the gruesome way his family died.
The movie tells a good story of what was happening to the north and south (and thise caught between the two).
It was not, IMO, violence for violence sakes - no more than The Patriot, Saving Pvt. Ryan, We were Soliders or Braveheart (to name a few) were.
Good point on Joesy Wales. Anyone with a spine would at least attempt to act like he did after his wife was raped and murdered along with the murder of his young son.
The movie is based upon the book “Gone to Texas” by Forest Carter and is my favorite Clint Eastwood film.
Good point on Josey Wales. Anyone with a spine would at least attempt to act like he did after his wife was raped and murdered along with the murder of his young son.
The movie is based upon the book “Gone to Texas” by Forest Carter and is my favorite Clint Eastwood film. It is called a ‘Revisionist Western’ simply because the Union sympathizers (i.e. Kansas Redlegs who killed his family and Union Calvary) are shown in a negative light, which is absolute PC bullshiite. (Like there can’t be heroes and villians on both sides of the Civil War).
The movie tells a good story of what was happening to the north and south (and thise caught between the two).
The border war fought between KS and MO was one of the bloodiest and violent during the war, as far as innocent civilian lives taken goes. Both the Union and the Confederacy committed horrendous acts of violence against non-combatants, particularly by The Red Legs (as depicted in "The Outlaw Josey Wales") and "Quantrill's Raiders." Neither of these groups were officially sanctioned by either the Union nor the Confederacy.
Mark
The movie tells a good story of what was happening to the north and south (and thise caught between the two).
BTW, The Sacking of Osceola, MO" was said to be the inspiration for "The Outlaw Josey Wales." Though the Redlegs were involved, it was primarily the "Jayhawkers" who pillaged, executed 9 civilians, and pretty much burned every building in the town to the ground. To say there was a lot of bad blood between KS and MO was a terrible understatement.
Mark
Like Jeremiah Johnson?