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Actors: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Charles Tyner, Delle Bolton, Stefan Gierasch
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Jeremiah Johnson |
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A young man, an ex soldier, decides to leave civilizaiton behind and go up into the Rocky Mountains to become a Mountain Man. Jeremiah Johnson runs across his mentor, Bearclaw Chris Lap, who teaches him mountain craft and survival. Jeremiah is drawn into various events over which he has little control, one being getting married to a Flathead Indian Chief's daughter. Jeremiah, in trying to do good, inadvertantly injures the Crow Indian burial grounds, and for that they kill his wife and adopted son. From that point on he becomes nearly mad with a lust for revenge, which he carries out until the Crow asks for peace and for him to stop killing their warriors. In the last scene he is reluctantly reaching his hand into the air in the sign of friendship in response to the Crow Chief, who had raised his hand asking for peace between Johnson and the tribe.
--KERRY BULLS, Resident Scholar
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Redford plays the loner who goes into the wilderness to become a mountain man and find a more peaceful life than the one he has lead in the army. He struggles to survive on his own but eventually becomes adept. He marries an Indian woman and adopts a son who are then murdered by Indians when Redford violates a burial ground against his better judgement. The fight is then on for revenge.
--David Bess, Resident Scholar
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Jeremiah J. was looking for a new scene, an adventure of sorts. Quite simply, He left all he knew for a better life than what he had. Searching for solitude, braving the uncertain terrain Jeremiah found friends, a companion, unimaginable hardships and made his way as a legend into history.
--Jennifer LaBauve, Resident Scholar
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JEREMIAH JOHNSON is a movie directed by Sydney Pollack in 1972.
Jeremiah Johnson leaves the civilization and heads towards the Rocky Mountains. He will meet strange characters along the road : Bear Claw Chris Lapp who hunts grizzlies, Del Gue who thinks he is still alive because he is bald, Casper, a young mute boy Jeremiah accepts to take with him. He will marry Swan, the daughter of an indian Chief, and live peacefully in the forest for a few months. But the Crow tribe wants him and his family dead after Jeremiah has crossed an indian cemetery in the mountains.
Gorgeous cinematography and a Robert Redford more ecologic than ever.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Wilderness adventure
Yes
Plotlets:
- hunted by injuns
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- fat (man)
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- trader
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- American Indian
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Midwest
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Mountains:
- climbing on trails
Desert?
Yes
Forest?
Yes
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- frozen
- impaled
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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