Robert Redford Western Jeremiah Johnso

This was my favorite movie when I was a teenager. I have probably watched it 50 times in my life. I asked my parents for the book Mountain Man, by Vardis Fisher, with Robert Redford on the cover, for Christmas, or my birthday, I believe. I later bought the movie poster. And I did a watercolour painting of the cover. I bought the book The Crow Killer, as well. But enjoyed Mountain Man much more. What is so beautiful about this movie is the narration, the telling of the story, as an Odyssean-like myth. And the music is heartwarming. It is such an authentic movie. I believe it was Robert Redfords favourite movie of his (even more than, The Sting). I can see why. He is such a rugged actor and he fills the role wonderfully. Credit is due to the screenwriters John Milius and Edward Anhalt (an Academy Award winning writer brought in to tighten up the loose script---Milius version, though the original script and a great one, was just too long for the subject matter, and needed more focus---same with Apocalypse Now: it was masterpiece, of sorts, but unfilmable; and with too loose structure, until Coppola came in, edited parts out, and elevated it, made it more literary, closer to the theme of, The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, and less psychedelic, and madcap, as Milius had written it). I was obsessed with Milius, then (as I was with Paul Schrader, for his screenplay for, Taxi Driver---I have since grown up, and Ozu, Mizoguchi, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, Bondarchuk, are favourites--among many others, like the tandem of David Lean and Robert Bolt---of mine, now). It goes to show how well crafted this movie was by everyone involved. And it stands the test of time. It is a classic. Still one of my favourites. A sentimental journey for me. We have all been boys once. And this movie showed us how to be a man. If you have read my comment through, I thank you.

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