{"id":19272,"date":"2011-08-25T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=19272"},"modified":"2021-01-26T21:52:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T04:52:41","slug":"outlaw-josey-wales-the-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=19272","title":{"rendered":"Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Get ready, little lady. Hell is coming to breakfast.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Poster-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Poster-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Poster-87x128.jpg 87w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Poster.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA Missouri farmer (Clint Eastwood) becomes a vengeful outlaw when his wife and child are killed by pro-Union Jawhawkers during the Civil War. Soon he finds himself crossing paths with a motley group of individuals, including a young pro-Confederate guerrilla (Sam Bottoms), an elderly Cherokee Indian (Chief Dan George), and a feisty Yankee woman (Paula Trueman) with a nubile young granddaughter (Sondra Locke).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Civil War<\/li>\n<li>Clint Eastwood Films<\/li>\n<li>Outlaws<\/li>\n<li>Revenge<\/li>\n<li>Westerns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary accurately labels this &#8220;impressively directed&#8221; Clint Eastwood film a &#8220;sweeping epic&#8221;, calling out the &#8220;epic score&#8221; by Jerry Fielding, and noting that &#8220;the violence is bloody, made all the more exciting by Bruce Surtees&#8217;s [cinemato]graphy, which gives each shot the authentic look of old Civil War photographs&#8221;. He argues that this film indicates a &#8220;mellowing&#8221; of Eastwood&#8217;s iconic &#8220;westerner&#8230; from his early days&#8221;, showing that he &#8220;was ready to put his guns away and settle down&#8221; &#8212; but this actually isn&#8217;t quite true. Despite the fact that Wales &#8220;ends up living in a communal situation with his &#8216;family&#8217; of friends&#8221;, the majority of the film focuses on his relentless vendetta against the men who&#8217;ve double-crossed him; he has multiple guns ready to fire at any given moment, and never stops to rest &#8212; other than during a brief, obligatory lovemaking scene with Locke, &#8220;whom he fell in love with off screen as well as on&#8221;. Regardless, <em>Wales<\/em> remains a well-produced, rousing western with quirky performances (particularly by Chief Dan George as Wales&#8217; new Indian companion) and a refreshingly authentic portrayal of Native Americans in general. My only quibble &#8212; pointed out by <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?res=EE05E7DF173FE46CBC4D53DFBE66838D669EDE\">Richard Eder in his original review<\/a> for the <em>New York Times<\/em> &#8212; is the film&#8217;s &#8220;attempt to assert the romantic individualism of the South against the cold expansionism of the North&#8221;, given that &#8220;every Unionist is vicious and incompetent&#8221;; as Eder notes, &#8220;there is something cynical about this primitive one-sidedness&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bruce Surtee&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Cinematography.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Cinematography-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Cinematography-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Cinematography-128x72.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Cinematography-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Cinematography.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chief Dan George as Lone Watie<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Chief-Dan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Chief-Dan-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Chief-Dan-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Chief-Dan-128x72.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Chief-Dan-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Chief-Dan.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A refreshingly authentic portrayal of Native Americans<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Native-Americans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Native-Americans-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Native-Americans-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Native-Americans-128x72.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Native-Americans-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Outlaw-Josey-Wales-Native-Americans.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jerry Fielding&#8217;s &#8220;epic score&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as a classic western, and one of Eastwood&#8217;s best films. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genuine Classic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/1001Movies.htm\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075029\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1976\/08\/05\/archives\/clint-eastwood-aims-at-war-epic-in-josey-wales.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/16945\/the-outlaw-josey-wales#articles-reviews?articleId=79824\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nativeamerican.co.uk\/joseywales.html\">Native American Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/the-outlaw-josey-wales-1976\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Get ready, little lady. Hell is coming to breakfast.&#8221; Synopsis: A Missouri farmer (Clint Eastwood) becomes a vengeful outlaw when his wife and child are killed by pro-Union Jawhawkers during the Civil War. Soon he finds himself crossing paths with a motley group of individuals, including a young pro-Confederate guerrilla (Sam Bottoms), an elderly Cherokee Indian (Chief Dan George), and a feisty Yankee woman (Paula Trueman) with a nubile young granddaughter (Sondra Locke). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Civil War&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=19272\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66270,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19272\/revisions\/66270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}