Clint Eastwood brings it home again! Portraying an ex-Confederate soldier on the run from corrupt Union officers, Eastwood cites the character Josey Wales as his own all-time favorite. Although the film started with a different director, Eastwood quickly stepped in to lead this film as another seminal piece in the Western canon. Showing imperfections on both sides of the war, even Wales sporting many of his own flaws, this film felt much more realistic than many of his other films. The Outlaw Josey Wales shows a wide spectrum of conflict within native-American culture, early settlers, and soldiers, and lends what I could see as an accurate view of the disquiet that existed in the early uninhabited US. Though Eastwood's characters always show a mixture of the same guttural bravado, the flaws he exhibits as Josey Wales, coupled with the film's conclusion, make this film distinct from the rest of his long list of westerns. I enjoyed this film, and have yet to be seriously disappointed with Eastwood's productions.
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4/12/2010
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This definitely sounds like an interesting movie. I'll have to check it out.
Your enjoyment of Eastwood is interesting. Some of his movies I just don't like... they're depressing and leave me kind of sick of humanity. I guess I have to remember that you see everything through the eyes of a film major, though, and focus on the technical aspects of films whereas I focus much more on the feeling the movie leaves me with, and am much more forgiving of bad mechanics.
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