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From: dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: OUTLAW JOSIE WALES (slight spoiler)
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 11:27:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 11:27:14 1985
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In article <1161@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes:
>     If you haven't seen OUTLAW JOSIE WALES, well, that's what video rental
>stores are for.  With the possible exception of BRONCO BILLY, OUTLAW JOSIE
>WALES is the best film Eastwood has directed and probably the best he has
>been in.

I think JOSIE WALES is great, too, but I can't rank it that high in the
Eastwood canon, though, not when it includes masterpieces like THE GOOD, THE
BAD, AND THE UGLY and DIRTY HARRY and the DOLLARS movies and THE BEGUILED.
It *is* arguably the best one he has directed, although my personal favorite
is HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (I think he directed that?). JOSIE WALES has one piece
of dialogue that cracks me up every time: the situation is that a gang of
rowdies has killed a kid Clint befriended.  He pays them back in typical
Clint fashion and then has this conversation with Chief Dan George:
 
  Clint: Every time I get to likin' somebody he's not around too long.
  Chief: I noticed that when you get to dislikin' somebody he's not
         around too long, either.
  (followed by squinty look from Clint).
 
Give me more, give me more!
                                   Dennis Doubleday
                                   Univ. of Maryland


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