The Outlaw Josey Wales is a classic western. Clint calls is the eqivalent of the Oscar winning Unforgiven. The story revolves around a lone fugitive of a one man regiment after killing a man of the union. He does this because a soldier of "The Red Legs" killed his wife and burned down his house. Josey Wales, along with the other settlers Cherokee Lone Watie, Laura Lee (Sondra Locke) and her vigorous Grandma Sarah. Whenever Josey encounters one of the possible red legs who may have killed his wife the camera flashes back to shots of his wife being dragged and pulled and his house burning to the ground. Josey's concern is to bring down the man who killed his wife and still be a lone fugitive, he also begins to have another when Laura Lee dropped in. Once again, this was a year before The Gauntlet came out, so Clint and Sondra were still together. The Outlaw Josey Wales has become another art masterpiece in Clint's library of work. The exposition of the story lies all in the beginnnig sequence of the film. The movie opens to Josey and his son (who is also Clint's real life son Kyle) and the next thing you know his wife is being beaten and dragged. Josey gets his face cut and he finds his pistol in the ashes of the house. After this, avengers of the union ask Wales if he would like to taga long to mad\ke things right. Clint inserts a blue filter to make the day look like it was night time. But the true meaning behind the filter and the great editing of the dissolving shots of them fighting of the union and lynching them is to represent how cold blooded these killers are.
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