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One of the strangest movies I've seen.Released in 1971 and running 114 minutes,it has 2 major problems.Bad acting and it is very dated,thus 1 and 1/2 stars off.However IF you can get by that, its a film that tells a story of protest like much of the music of that era. Gezz,it even had a song "One Tin Soldier",in the soundtrack,that was a hit and it spawned a few film sequels as well becoming a "franchise"but like most,stick with this first one.
The film combined the rising interest in martial arts with the awareness of social injustice and just plain greed and bullyness ,and i have a special place in my heart for it because back in 1977 I saw it on TV on a saturday night and then later that very night,SNL spoofed it with Paul Simon forever cementing both as hip and cultural icons as well as great TV,maybe better than the movie itself.So for a peace of timely nostalgia or for you younger folks,a sense of the times,see this film.Trailer URL follows the pix and a IMDB summary below.
Billy Jack is a half-Indian/half-white ex-Green Beret who is being drawn more and more toward his Indian side. He hates violence, but can't get away from it in the white man's world. Pitting the good guys, the students of the peace-loving free-arts school in the desert vs. the conservative bad guys in the near-by town, the movie plays definitive late-60s themes/messages: anti-establishment, make love not war, the senseless slaughter of God's creatures, the rape of society (figuratively and literally), two-sided justice, racial segregation and prejudices, and basic socialist ideals. Written by Nic Cage <2cool@zebra.net>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXvqaBw_iA
The film combined the rising interest in martial arts with the awareness of social injustice and just plain greed and bullyness ,and i have a special place in my heart for it because back in 1977 I saw it on TV on a saturday night and then later that very night,SNL spoofed it with Paul Simon forever cementing both as hip and cultural icons as well as great TV,maybe better than the movie itself.So for a peace of timely nostalgia or for you younger folks,a sense of the times,see this film.Trailer URL follows the pix and a IMDB summary below.
Billy Jack is a half-Indian/half-white ex-Green Beret who is being drawn more and more toward his Indian side. He hates violence, but can't get away from it in the white man's world. Pitting the good guys, the students of the peace-loving free-arts school in the desert vs. the conservative bad guys in the near-by town, the movie plays definitive late-60s themes/messages: anti-establishment, make love not war, the senseless slaughter of God's creatures, the rape of society (figuratively and literally), two-sided justice, racial segregation and prejudices, and basic socialist ideals. Written by Nic Cage <2cool@zebra.net>
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