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You need to see "The born losers" next.
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Just saw Billy Jack
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If you go to a Pow Wow in CA, you have idiot white people in moccassins and fringed suede outfits proclaiming 1/32 Cherokee.They would make arrowheads out of broken toilet basin pieces and vow for your attention to listen to these lost souls. It is as pathetic as it gets. If you actually do find an actual Pow Wow with authentic red skin native indigenous peoples, they make fun of the white man. I have went once to both places, and don't find it amusing at all either way. I watched Billy Jack as a kid, and thought he was cool. I watched it again a decade later and thought it was a joke. Hippies also are not amusing to me.
You might want to bring a color chart to your next pow wow. 'authentic red skin native indigenous peoples'. Um, your perception of red is a bit off, or you got a little racist stuck on your shoe. Red Man? Really?
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+1! But watch both versions. The newer one is a hoot! Dwane Johnson and the guy from Jackass? But 'twas fun just the same.
Billy Jack was about as silly, but even 'hippies' needed a hero. Kinda like Rambo was the Vietnam POW hero (or even better, Gene Hackman). Suspend reality a bit and those movies are great.
BTW, first reply to explain the Hackman reference wins. No IMDB! Free goodie to the winner.
Are you talking about the Gene Hackman movie where he goes in and save POWS with the great Randall "Tex" Cobb as "Sailor". The movie was Uncommon Valor. Can't remember his name in that movie but it was pretty good. I think he was a retired colonel or something. Tex Cobb was also cool in Raising Arizona.
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Good movie. I liked the scene were Patrick Swayze's character kicks Sailor in the head knocking him back on the bed. A few seconds go by and Sailor just raises back up. Just like in boxing you couldn't knock Tex out,lol.
Many have forgotten that Bruce Lee gained some cult popularity in the U.S. in the late '60s as Kato in The Green Hornet, which predated Marlowe by about 2 years. There was even a Batman episode where Kato fought Robin while GH fought Batman.
IMO, the only good parts of Billy Jack were the opening theme song, One Tin Soldier; and the fight scene in the park. As dated as it might look today, many younger people nowadays can't imagine the impact of that scene back then, especially when he says, "I'm gonna take this right foot, and I'm gonna whop you on the right side of your face, and you know what? There isn't a damn thing you're gonna be able to do about it." Then he actually does it.
One thing few people mention is the considerable influence that Japanese cinema had on Bruce Lee and Chinese kung fu cinema in general. BL was a big fan of samurai films, and clearly based his original concept for the Kung Fu TV series on the original Zatoichi movie series. Though the Zatoichi character was blind, he was a lone wanderer on the run, who was a master swordsman/martial artist, righting wrongs and positively affecting the lives of locals wherever he went; then just as enigmatically goes on his way, alone again, at the end. BL even took some publicity photos at the Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong dressed in period (Chinese) costume, holding a sword with his eyes rolled up as a nod to Zatoichi, most likely prior to filming The Big Boss for Golden Harvest.
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Another clear samurai movie influence on BL was the pacing and rhythm he used in his fight scenes, most notably when he faced multiple opponents. He simply translated sword fighting to empty-hand fighting, or using other weapons (nunchaku, stick, etc.). The fast bursts then freezing in a pose, followed by the delayed falling down of his opponents, and so on.
Jim
IMO, the only good parts of Billy Jack were the opening theme song, One Tin Soldier; and the fight scene in the park. As dated as it might look today, many younger people nowadays can't imagine the impact of that scene back then, especially when he says, "I'm gonna take this right foot, and I'm gonna whop you on the right side of your face, and you know what? There isn't a damn thing you're gonna be able to do about it." Then he actually does it.
One thing few people mention is the considerable influence that Japanese cinema had on Bruce Lee and Chinese kung fu cinema in general. BL was a big fan of samurai films, and clearly based his original concept for the Kung Fu TV series on the original Zatoichi movie series. Though the Zatoichi character was blind, he was a lone wanderer on the run, who was a master swordsman/martial artist, righting wrongs and positively affecting the lives of locals wherever he went; then just as enigmatically goes on his way, alone again, at the end. BL even took some publicity photos at the Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong dressed in period (Chinese) costume, holding a sword with his eyes rolled up as a nod to Zatoichi, most likely prior to filming The Big Boss for Golden Harvest.
*Edit to add:*
Another clear samurai movie influence on BL was the pacing and rhythm he used in his fight scenes, most notably when he faced multiple opponents. He simply translated sword fighting to empty-hand fighting, or using other weapons (nunchaku, stick, etc.). The fast bursts then freezing in a pose, followed by the delayed falling down of his opponents, and so on.
Jim
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The whole can of whup ass! Great flick.