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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: OUTLAW JOSIE WALES (slight spoiler)
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Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 01:07:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 26 01:07:36 1985
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 >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 a matter of taste, of course, but there are more interesting
characters in this OJW than I have seen in other Eastweed films.
Everybody likes Chief Dan George, but the carpetbagger and the raft
runner were nifty too.  There were nice little bits like Red Legs
saying don't worry, the least Wales will do is pick off the two or
three men in the front of the raft and the men at the front seem to
think that is bad enough.  Some how the line I like the most, because
the delivery is so perfect, is Chief Dan George's last comment in the
discussion of how Wales knew who to shoot at.  Also, I like that scene
because it shows that there was a lot more to being a gunfighter than
good reflexes.  How Wales knew how to shoot which attacker in which
order showed amazing deductive skills.
 
 >It *is*
 >arguably the best one he has directed, although my personal
 >favorite is HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (I think he directed that?).

Yup!  Maybe I should give that one another chance.  I gave up on it
after 15 minutes or so because I thought it was a bit slow.


				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper


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