Posted: 11/29/2005 7:43:02 AM EDT
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I finally picked up my own copy. If you don't have it, GET IT! Excellent movie! "Well, Pilgrim, were it worth the trouble?" "Eh? What trouble?" |
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"March is a green, muddy month down below. Some like it. Farmers, mostly." "Elk don't know how mant legs a horse has." "You have done well to keep so much hair with so many after it."  I had a pair of these boots made. Everyone laughs at 'em until it snows and snows and snows.... |
| if you like "Jeremiah Johnson", you should buy "The Mountain Men". Great movie, both staples in my collection. The Mountain Men |
I've wondered about that too. Maybe he was expecting to be attacked the whole time and was wondering why they hadn't come after him. Suddenly he realized that in retaliation for violating something sacred to them, they would desecrate something sacred to him. Just speculation. |
+5 You can't own one without the other. And if you like those two, you should go out and purchase the Lonesome Dove series. |
Makes sense....seeing as how the party he was escorting mentioned they have been watched since they got in the area. Thanks Brohawk...that makes more sense now. |
Kinda like watching Sigourney Weaver use all those guns in the Aliens movies.  In an interview she said she is afraid of guns and the feeling of power they give you. Well, honey, if you don't think you can responsibly manage that power, you should stay away from them.  My 15 y/o daughter does just fine with them.
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1 of my favorites. It would have been harsh but I often think it would have been good to have lived back in those days when you could just go claim a nice piece of land in the forests. My question is it seems they could have gone around the burial ground to some degree rather than through the middle of it. Also dale seems to be an experienced mountain man when him and jeremiah meet, he knows hatchet jacks and all. But the last time they meet and he has long hair he says I ain't never trapped before and seems to have some hesitation saying something about it and jeremiah says "you will do well". |
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Del Q might have been a mountain man provisioner or some other trader or hunter instead of an actual trapper. And the Crow graveyard is just a plot device. Jeremiah Johnson is supposedly based on a real fellow, "liver eating johnston". I would love to find out if any of the movie was true. Another great script by the master, John Milius. |
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Two books (at least) served as inspiration for the film: Crow Killer by Raymond W. Thorp & Robert Bunker, claims to be "The monumental true saga of the greatest Mountain Man of the West, who swore revenge on an entire Indian Nation. A fantastic man... now the subject of the tremendous Warner Bros. film Jeremiah Johnson." The New York Times called it, "The authentic best!" and Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher, billed as "The book that was the inspiration for Jeremiah Johnson." In the section titled To The Reader, the authors state (in part), "Readers familiar with the history of the American West will be aware that Sam and Kate are drawn in some degree from John Johnston, the "Crow-killer," and Jane Morgan, whose family was slaughtered on the Musselshell. Though these two persons actually lived they are today almost completely lost in legends." |
Both are excellent books, I heartily recommend both. Try to read mountain man first then Crow killer. Alvin |
JJ and LD are great BUT The Mountain Men was a great disappointment Alvin |
