But that's kind of a sad statement on mankind, if that's what it takes. The movie starts with a gang of Missouri bushwhackers fighting a guerrilla war for the Confederacy circa 1865. They call us "civilized" because we're easy to sneak up on. You may go in peace. Later, the same rifle pops out of several windows behind Josie when his friends back him up during a showdown with the Red Legs. Fletcher: His wife and son have been murdered, and his house burned to the ground by Union Red Legs, setting the stage for the perfect Clint Eastwood revenge movie. Whenever I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. I'm gettin' better at sneaking up on you like this. was an American gunfighter and former Confederate bushwhacker from Missouri who, during and after the American Civil War, became infamous for his vendetta against Captain Bill Terrill 's Unionist Redlegs and for his refusal to surrender to the Union even after the fall of the Confederacy. The redlegs trail him, but can't ever kill him. Clint Eastwood with a pistol in each hand, in a promotional still for the 1976 western, 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'. Yeah true Clint shot a lot of people, but it just goes to show you that even body count doesn't always tell the whole story about a person. Struggling with distance learning? Josey Wales: It is revealed that this other man is, somehow connected to Copenhagen City. Wales asks the officer to kill him, and the officer obliges. Eubie says that, Would not have made it through AP Literature without the printable PDFs. | After eventually being sold out, however, he is on the run from bounty hunters and Yankee soldiers (including the group who killed his family). I mean, look who just win Miss World. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales. Captain Terrill: Terrell why they need to go in a different direction than Wales' true course. Sim Carstairs: [to Josey] On The Merv Griffin Show, Orson Welles lauded the film, calling Eastwood "one of America's finest directors". Josey never set out to be a badass gunfighter, nor did he have any aspirations to kill people. Doin' right ain't got no end. Based on the novel Gone to Texas: The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales, by Forrest Carter. 1. Watch The Outlaw Josey Wales Full Movie - video Dailymotion You pull his teeth, he's harmless as a heel hound. On October 24, 1975, Kaufman was fired at Eastwood's command by producer Bob Daley. Union Captain Terrill has one of the best lines in the film. But the movie is excellent, it ranks at least in the top five of Clints Westerns. [16] The sacking caused an outrage amongst the Directors Guild of America and other important Hollywood executives, since the director had already worked hard on the film, including completing all of the pre-production. That's just the way it is. Josey Wales was portrayed by Michael Parks in the film's 1986 sequel, The Return of Josey Wales. I figured you could use some help. Come out of a war, got no other way to make a livin'. Fletcher, in turn, persuades his fellow lawmen that Wales was killed in a shootout, allowing his friend to finally live in peace. Josey Wales : That's true. | They stood us in a line: John Jumper, Chili McIntosh, Buffalo Hump, Jim Buckmark, and me - I am Lone Watie. Eventually the boy dies and he picks up two more unlikely partners, a disenfranchised Cherokee Indian and Cheyenne Squaw. Josey Wales: So you'll be Josey Wales. I wonder where she ever got that idea. While its still possible it was Josey that killed him i thought it would of been too soon for her to find out of her sons death and travle to him in that time. Every man me know in the music biz a lick coke. Doctor Love looks around the prison cell and observes that its falling apart. Now we'll only hunt what we need to live on, same as the Comanche does. He joins a band of guerrilla fighters who manage to avoid being captured. He killed Captain Terrill with his own sword. Complete your free account to access notes and highlights. I got no place else to go. Wales is portrayed in the 1976 western film The Outlaw Josey Wales by actor and director Clint Eastwood. A Fistful of Dollars (1964): 184. The film was adapted by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman from author Asa Earl "Forrest" Carter's 1972 novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (republished, as shown in the movie's opening credits, as Gone to Texas). Complete your free account to request a guide. After watching union soldiers kill his wife and son, a farmer joins the confederate army. As Terrill draws his cavalry sabre, Wales grabs his hand and, after a slow struggle, forces the blade through Terrill's chest, finally avenging his family. If it's anything Shawshank Redemption, Seinfeld, or Kevin Bacon game related he's way more interested. No retelling of this story can do it justice; it can only be appreciated fully by seeing it. They said a man could get rich on reward money if he could kill you. Let your fellow shooters know share this article using the Facebook, I ain't promising you nothing extra. Here are 25 movie characters with the highest kills counts in a single movie. What's all that paint about? So there is no way to know for sure if Josey killed him. Brethren, is like them communist country you see 'pon the news. That's right, it's been three decades since we met "Chenny!" Uh, I was goin' to mention that to you as soon as I got the chance. The answer, it turns out, is quite a few. But in the end they pull together. Sweet Tooth season 2's emotional ending explained, Corrie reveals Stephen wedding drama in 27 pics, Arnold Schwarzenegger killed 81 people in Commando? The bear lives here, the wolf, the antelope, the Comanche. But I don't think that Josey's look had anything to do with the possibility of him personally killing Tom Turner. Cold, hard looks that can make even the toughest of the Western bad guys think twice about challenging him. Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) is a Southerner whose entire family were killed by a sadistic Union officer. You did! We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Josey Wales: The Outlaw Josey Wales might not be Eastwoods most financially successful Western film, nor was it the highest-rated. Kaufman wanted the film to stay as close to the novel as possible in style and retained many of the mannerisms in Wales's character which Eastwood would display on screen, such as his distinctive lingo with words like "reckon", "hoss" (instead of "horse"), and "ye" (instead of "you") and spitting tobacco juice on animals and victims. shooting. They arrive at the Singers house and Echo Squad are not standing guard outside. [throughout movie] The Return of Josey Wales | VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA Body Count Breakdown; Commando Was A Chance For Arnold Schwarzenegger To Out-Stallone Sylvester Stallone | Fishstream TV on Commando (1985) Killcount And Body Count Breakdown; THE AOBG UPDATE: JUNE 2010 - AOBG on AMB: FIRST BLOOD (1982) kain424 on AOBG . This boy was brought up in a time of blood and dying and never questioned a bit of it. Along the way, and despite his aversion to traveling with company, Wales accumulates a diverse group of companions. You know she thinks I'm some kind of a Cherokee chief. Red Legs? And by "hilarity," we mean "murder." This is a Clint Eastwood movie, after all. We wore them because we belonged to the five civilized tribes. This marked the beginning of a professional and domestic relationship between Eastwood and Locke that would span six films and last into the late 1980s. Followed by a group of unionists who want him dead, he leaves the Missouri, heading to the indian reservations and the Texas. Well, he's not exactly *alone*. So when Granny explains that Tom's demise was caused by Missouri Ruffians the possibility that Josey killed him had to have occurred to him. That's a fact. ", Queen Charlotte review: A Bridgerton triumph, Michelle Yeoh stars in trailer for new Poirot film, EastEnders announces eating disorder story for Ben, I'm a Celebrity airs trial twist for new campers. Eventually, the redlegs find the outlaw, but the ranchers put up a fight. Based on the novel Gone to Texas: The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales, by Forrest Carter. And Fletcher, there's an old saying: To the victors belong the spoils. He joins a group of Confederate guerrillas and becomes a ruthless killer, seeking revenge against the Union soldiers who killed his family. Only an Indian could do something like that. The southern soldiers are honorable and just. Wales kills several of his pursuers as his trek continues, leading up to an ultimate and inevitable clash with a large militia group, who are led by Captain Terrill, the man who led the raid on his farm and killed his family. To hell with them fellas. How could we improve it? He's from Missouri where they're all known to be killers of innocent men, women, and children. Josie Wales: Teacher Editions with classroom activities for all 1725 titles we cover. Wales rides to Ten Bears' camp, parleys with him, and makes peace, with Ten Bears taking a blood oath to live in peace with him and his. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another. Woman naming them pickney Josey One and Josey Two, even though he not fucking nobody but him wife, no, they not married for real. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. I think I'll try to tell him the war is over. [18] The film was pre-screened at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities in Idaho in a six-day conference entitled Western Movies: Myths and Images. Those men are common outlaws, nothing more. Josey Wales is directed by its star, Clint Eastwood, and when we meet his title character, he's a family man, a farmer. Lone Watie: TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Once, the Singer saw, who insisted he had no knowledge of this, and warned him: Pull your leash on, penetrated. "Jack Caine: "And you go in pieces, asshole. Wales becomes an outlaw and is pursued by bounty hunters and Union soldiers as he tries to make a new life for himself.