The Outlaw Josey Wales’s background has considerable relevance in today’s Trumpised Us, writes Dr Robert Smith
You highlight in the week’s TV films (Guide, 30 September) the Clint Eastwood western, The Outlaw Josey Wales, as did Joe Queenan last month writing about Eastwood’s career (G2, 4 August). But that this piece of nonsense derives from a novel by Earl Carter (alias “Forest Carter”), subsequently identified as a Kkk activist and white supremacist. So the film’s background has considerable relevance in today’s Trumpised Us, had this been pointed out instead of praising the movie. Like most films, this post-civil war effort has various themes, but its underlying message is that decent southerners were not fighting to save slavery, but to defend themselves and their families from marauding, murderous Union soldiers. Emanating from the pen of a southern racist, this tale might seem a trifle distorted in larding...
You highlight in the week’s TV films (Guide, 30 September) the Clint Eastwood western, The Outlaw Josey Wales, as did Joe Queenan last month writing about Eastwood’s career (G2, 4 August). But that this piece of nonsense derives from a novel by Earl Carter (alias “Forest Carter”), subsequently identified as a Kkk activist and white supremacist. So the film’s background has considerable relevance in today’s Trumpised Us, had this been pointed out instead of praising the movie. Like most films, this post-civil war effort has various themes, but its underlying message is that decent southerners were not fighting to save slavery, but to defend themselves and their families from marauding, murderous Union soldiers. Emanating from the pen of a southern racist, this tale might seem a trifle distorted in larding...
- 10/2/2017
- by Letters
- The Guardian - Film News
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