Love the simple revenge story that certainly has many film counterparts including more recent updates including braveheart and gladiator.
Woefully underrated in Feb 2017 at #952 on TSPDT
Originally was directed by Philip Kaufman (the right stuff) but was apparently thrown overboard by Eastwood
Certainly a mark of Eastwood as an auteur is the retribution themes throughout Eastwood’s career. This is pretty straightforward but certainly it’s more complicated in unforgiven, mystic river, high plains drifter and others
Orson Welles apparently was an admirer of the film
Amongst other things the film is well known for the continual spitting (narrative/character form) from eastwood’s josey wales character
I adore the washed out title sequence- foreshadowing perhaps to his work in the 00’s with washed out color palettes
Very funny film
Eastwood gives an incredible complex and wonderful performance behind his stoic face
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