{"id":18662,"date":"2026-06-22T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18662"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:22:05","slug":"the-outlaw-josey-wales-1976-clint-eastwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18662","title":{"rendered":"The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, Clint Eastwood)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clint was just innocently farming when some assholes come along, steal his wife, murder his kid and burn down his house.  Cue a training montage!  The assholes are a murderous rogue group in the union army, so Clint joins the confederates.  Cue a war montage!  The last of the confederates surrender when the war is over, and while pledging their loyalty to the revived union they&#8217;re all gunned down.  Clint sees this, chain-guns 100 unioners, and goes on the run.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/josey.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After I get to likin&#8217; someone they ain&#8217;t around long.&#8221;  A dumb blunt movie, Clint now wandering the earth, gathering traveling companions (wide-eyed Sandra Locke, doomed kid, The Chief), tending to arrive at some conflict or another just in time to dispense cold justice.  Clint&#8217;s fifth movie as director, and the earliest I&#8217;ve seen by a decade.  Confed troop leader Fletcher (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13897\">Killer Klowns From Outer Space<\/a><\/em>) is allowed to live, Evil Unioner Terrill (<em>Deliverance<\/em> rapist typecast as a violent hillbilly) killed on his own sword.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint was just innocently farming when some assholes come along, steal his wife, murder his kid and burn down his house. Cue a training montage! The assholes are a murderous rogue group in the union army, so Clint joins the confederates. Cue a war montage! The last of the confederates surrender when the war is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,662,628,830,144],"class_list":["post-18662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-civil-war","tag-clint-eastwood","tag-native-americans","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18723,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18662\/revisions\/18723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}