The Outlaw: Movie Analysis

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The man with no name takes his own leap at movie directing scene with ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’. In this film it showcases the style of Eastwood, with a slight bit more humorous take than all the other films that had been showed in class. Which I believe made the movie much more watchable. There was some scenes that had strayed me from fully connecting in the movie. Such as any scene with the character Laura Lee, her character seemed awkward and out of place. In the movie there was a strong emphasis of anti-war, I think the movie both preaches against and glorifies it at the same time, and finally the lack of an authentic multicultural feel. Throughout the movie there is several different moment that preach anti-war. One being when Josey Wales talks about all these men killing each other and how it is a shame. At the end of the movie Wales then talks to Fletcher about how everyone died a little bit in the war. In my opinion that is Wales saying that everyone was suffering from the war, and that it was unnecessary. Not only was the film anti-war, but to me it both preached against violence but at the same time for it. …show more content…

In several incidences he gets into many shoot outs with several different people. Which I feel like they are glorifying the violence, because of all these scenes. At the same time I feel like they are preaching against it. While he’s being pursued by the two bounty hunters he gives the first one a chance to leave. The first bounty hunters comes back in and pulls his gun. Undoubtedly Wales pulls his gun and kills him before the bounty hunter shoots. In one moment later on in the film instead of battling the whole Indian tribe, he decides to go and make a compromise with them. These two are the only scenes that have me form the opinion that the movies preaches against violence. In the film there was several different cultures in it, but it was

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