(08-10-2012, 04:56 PM)midnightblues Wrote: The Outlaw Josey Wales
^ Great suggestion Bluesman! I just finished watching it and I really really really like it. The only downside for me was "Laura Lee"; I guess the softest way to put it is simply saying, she isn't one of my favorite Sondra Locke characters. But I guess she's more likeable here than in Sudden Impact (that's not really saying much, is it?). I loved her in The Gauntlet and Bronco Billy.
“The Outlaw Josey Wales”? A gunslinger yes, but an outlaw? I say no. There are so many different methods of justice, and the methods of the corrupt military officers pursing Josey don’t hold much water. What’s right and moral to Josey doesn’t come from without; it’s an intuition, a gut feeling that once felt doesn’t go ignored. Josey does right by himself and the memory of his nameless wife and child, not to mention those who come to depend on him later. His deeds (both good and bad) aren’t the stuff of legend so much as necessities of daily life for a man who drifts from place to place, gunfight to gunfight.
Behind the scars, grimaces, and rasp of the typical Clint Eastwood character lies a very sweet sensitivity. I thought this movie was the clearest expression of the grim-but-optimistic worldview Eastwood characters all seem to have. As much as I like this movie, “Two Mules for Sister Sara” is still my favorite Clint Eastwood movie:
Greatest Moments - Two Mules For Sister Sara
