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Show THE ZEPH se a er 2S MARCH 2006 Kid mentions to Josey that he wishes they c could bury the two vpandie. Josey: ia WORDS Directed by: CLINT EASTWOOD Screenplay: SONIA CHERNUS based on the novel "Gone to Texas" by FORREST CARTER starring CLINT EASTWOOD CHIEF DAN GEORGE SONDRA LOCKE BILL McKINNEY The hell with those fellas... Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms. Meeting Lone Watie, the “chief” character played by Chief Dan George: Josey: It isn’t supposed to be easy to sneak up on an Indian. LW/Chiet:; I’m an Indian alright. But here in the [Cherokee] nations they call us the civilized tribe. They call us civilized because we're easy to sneak up on. White men have been sneaking up on us for years. LW/Chief, explaining that he heard there was a band of confederate rebels that hadn’t surrendered and were heading for Mexico: I didn‘ surrender neither, but they took my horse and made him surrender. They have him pulling a ee in Kansas, I'll bet. LW/Chief, telling Josey he had no food: All I gotis a piece of hard rock candy. But it’s not for eatin’, it’s for....lookin’ through! LW/Chief, upon finding out that the Navajo girl accompanying them sneaked up on him: It’s not right a woman does something like that to me. I used to have power. Now old age is creeping up on me. LW/Chief, after eating a meal cooked by the Navajo girl, Moonlight: That meal was damn good. Im gonna take up tee-pee livin’ if it’s like this. You know, she thinks I’m some kind of Cherokee chief. JW: I wonder where she ever got that idea. ee waking up Lone Watie/Chief, who is sleeping with a stray dog that has adopted the reviewed by ROBYN SLAYTON-MARTIN I'll spare you my lengthy snalgaeal literary synthesis of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jeremiah Johnson, and the Outlaw Josey Wales. Suffice to say that after watching the films countless times I believe, as other analytical freaks have pointed out, that these particular movies represent the psyche of a Vietnam veteran and speak to the disillusionment of the entire embittered war generation. Butch Cassidy symbolizes the camaraderie, friendship honor and commitment that soldiers in Vietnam felt for their buddies; Jeremiah Johnson represents the isolation and disconnect so many vets felt upon returning home. Josey Wales signifies the struggles so many vets faced as they tried to heal from Vietnam and integrate war experiences into postwar life. However, literary analysis is usually a product of someone who has much too much education for their own good—(that would be me—the first sign of overcoming a problem is acknowledgment, right?) and anyway, literary analysis! is mostly just masturbation via writing: gets off on it, but no one else does.. the author is To summarize the plot, I’ll lift the liner notes from the netflix DVD cover, as follows: “As the outlaw Josey Wales, Clint Eastwood to the Man with No Name from his European is ideal as a wary, fast-drawing loner, akin westerns. But unlike that other mythic outlaw, Josey Wales has a name—and a heart. The heart opens up as the action unfolds. After avenging his family’s brutal murder by Union redleg soldiers near the close of the Civil War, Wales is pursued by a pack of killers. He preters to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him—and Wales can’t bring himself to leave them unprotected. Time called this film one of 1976's best movies. Over time, The Outlaw Josey Wales has secured a place as one of the top Westerns ever”. Union soldier to the young kid, played by Sam Bottoms (what washis name in the movie?), after Josey’s band of Confederate holdouts is talked into surrendering to the United States military: Now get in line, betore I kick you so hard you'll be wearing your ass for a hat. U.S. Senator commending Fletcher, the turncoat who duped the Confederate holdouts into surrendering and brought then in to the Union soldiers. Fletcher apparently has a bit of a conscience, since he seems disgusted by the part he played in commandeering the surrender: Senator: “There’s an old saying, Fletcher. To the victor go the spoils”. Fletcher: “There’s another old saying, Senator. Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.” At the ferry and the accompanying store run by old lady Granny Hawkins, where Josey and _ Sam Bottoms’ character wait to cross in order to escape Fletcher and the redleg soldiers * trailing them: Granny Hawkins. So you'll be Josey Wales. Josey: How might you know that, Granny?. Granny: Soldiers were lookin’ for you about2 hours ago. They say you killed your own men...they say you're a hard desperate man, Josey Wales. They're going to heel and hide you toa barn door...you know whatI say? What's that? Granny: I say that big talk’s worth doodley squat. Watching the ferryboat approach the shore, loaded withhed Sam Bottoms character, the young kid: They comin Josey, facing down multiple redleg soldiers on a dusty frontier town street: You gonna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie? Josey and Chief/Lone Watie, discussing the temporary absence of Moonlight: LW/Chiet: I guess we aren’t gonna see that little Navajo girl again. Josey: I guess not. I kinda liked her... but it’s always like that. LW/Chiet: soldiers: (Wales pulls his rifle and takes aim) Carpetbagger, observing Wales: Do you really think you can shoot all those men down? No, no, Mr. Wales. There is something in this country called justice. Josey: Well, Mr. Carpetbagger... we got something in this country called a Missouri boat ride... (shoots rope anchoring the ferryboat, which breaks loose and heads downstream) Accosted by two bandits, Wales kills them with the kid’s assistance. The kid is already suffering from multiple gunshot wounds from the escape from the union soldier camp. Kid: Thought you could use some help. Josey: You get those holes a-leakin’, I'll whomp you with a knotted plough line.” Like what? Josey: Whenever I get to likin’ someone, they ain’t around long. LW/Chiet: I notice when you get to dislikin’ someone, they aren’t around for long either. Evening, in camp. Josey and Lone Watie/Chief are who is bathing in the creek: LW/Chiet: You know any man I knew that was an edge...and some would always like to have the Josey: Yep. Always a good idea. (both continue to have an edge... LW/Chief: (still gazing at the woman) Josey: (gazing too) Yep... LW/Chiet: Yep... watching, from a distance, Moonlight, good with a gun and lived always had sun behind their backs. to reflect on Moonlight)...always pays Yeah...allkinda edges.... LW/Chief, speaking to Sondra Locke’s character Loralee, just before they are both liberated by Wales from comancheros: Get ready, little lady...hell is coming to breakfast. Wales and a bounty hunter, who has tracked him to a saloon: Bounty hunter: I’m looking for Josey Wales. Josey: So. Choice lines from The Outlaw Josey Wales. Josey: Chief I suppose that rangy redbone dog ain’t got nowhere else to go. He might as well tide along with us....(sighs)...hell, everybody else is. (from shadows) That’d be me. Bounty hunter: Youre a wanted man, Wales. Josey: I reckon I'm right popular. You a bounty hunter? Bounty hunter: A man’s gotta do something for a living these days. Josey: Dyin’ ain’t much of a Livin’, boy. LW/Chief, trying to keep Josey from leaving: LW/Chiet: Stay with us...maybe they'll forget about you. Josey: You know there ain’t no forgettin. Wales, instructing his small band of Kansas settlers how to fight off Indians: Now remember, when things look bad, and it looks like youre not going to make it, you gotta get mean. Imean plumb mad dog mean. Because if ‘you lose your head and you give up, then you neither live nor win...that’s just the way it Is. Wales, single-handedly negotiating an agreement to share territory with Ten‘ Bears, a Comanche warrior played by Will Sampson: I came here to live with vou, or die with you. Dyin’s not hard for men like us...it’s living that’s hard, when everything you cared about has been butchered or raped. Governments don’t live together; people live together. And the conclusion of the film: Final exchange with Fletcher, who has been trailing Wales throughout the film. Fletcher and Wales meet in the saloon, where Josey’s friends have tried to cover for him by giving Josey a false name, “Mr. Wilson”, and fabricating a story that Josey was shot and killed, trying to throw Fletcher off Wales’ trail. Fletcher: I dont pcre that story about Josey Wales. Barkeep: you don‘: Fletcher: No sir. I ‘ion 4. I don’t believe no five pistoleros could do in Josey Wales, I think he’s still alive. I think Ill go down to Mexico, try to find him. Josey: And then? Fletcher: He’s got the first move. I owe him that. I think Ill try to tell him the war is over. What do you think, Mr. Wilson? Josey: (long pause)... reckon so...I guess we all died a little in that damned wat... (Wales mounts his horse and rides towards the setting sun. Credits roll, etc) |