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HeySal

10 years ago

This seems to be a bad week for favorite old stars. Another very sad loss.

RIP Tom.

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Brady Partridge

10 years ago

I love Billy Jack. I watch that movie about once a year, even though its liberal view of the world is impractical to say the least. I mean, can you imagine what society would be like if the hippy, dippy kids from that just-do-your-own-thing school were to take charge of it? There would be no trains running on time, then.

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MikeAmbrosio

10 years ago

One of my all time favorite movie scenes:

Billy Jack in action - YouTube

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joseph7384 10 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeAmbrosio

One of my all time favorite movie scenes:

Mike you speed devil, you posted as I was typing, that's also my favorite scene.
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joseph7384

10 years ago

You know what I think I'm going to do then, just for the hell of it? I'm going to take this right foot, and I'm going to wop you on that side of your face and you want to know something, there's not a dam thing you're going to be able to do about it.

I just love that quote!

Billy Jack RIGHT FOOT Wops Posner's Face (1080p...

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seasoned

10 years ago

I don't remember any "hippy dippy" thing about it. As I recall, I loved the series of films, and tom in the part. I also loved the songs. Wikipedia says:

Billy Jack is a "half-breed" American Navajo Indian[citation needed], a Green Beret Vietnam War veteran, and a hapkido master. The character made his début in The Born Losers (1967), a "biker film" about a motorcycle gang terrorizing a California town. Billy Jack rises to the occasion to defeat the gang when defending a college student with evidence against them for gang rape.
In the second film, Billy Jack, the hero defends the hippie-themed Freedom School and students from townspeople who do not understand or like the counterculture students. The school is organized by Jean Roberts (Delores Taylor).
In one scene, a group of Indian children from the school go to town for ice cream and are refused service and then abused and humiliated by Bernard Posner and his gang. This prompts a violent outburst by Billy. Later, Billy's girlfriend Jean is raped and an Indian student is murdered by Bernard (David Roya), the son of the county's corrupt political boss (Bert Freed). Billy confronts Bernard and sustains a gunshot wound before killing him with a hand strike to the throat, after Bernard was having sex with a 13-year-old girl. After a climactic shootout with the police, and pleading from Jean, Billy Jack surrenders to the authorities and is arrested. As he is driven away, a large crowd of supporters raise their fists as a show of defiance and support. The plot continues in the sequel, The Trial of Billy Jack.

It DOES mention counter culture and "Hippy themed", but that kind of goes with the time, and this type of film. It is ALMOST like a current day, for the time, KUNG-FU! Think about it! BOTH KUNG-FU and Billy Jack featured a seemingly superhuman and brave martial arts expert, that is kind of a "half breed"(THEIR word, not mine, though it fits as a descriptive term here). In both cases there is one side that is towards the military interest, but against violence, and the other side is of that he is fighting for or against and he doesn't really fit in. BOTH are fighting for fairness.

AND, for the record, I liked BOTH series! In BOTH cases I agreed with the protagonist and his cause.

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Claude Whitacre

10 years ago

I have the set of 4 Billy Jack movies.

Born Losers
Billy Jack (By far the best known)
The Trial Of Billy Jack (I liked it the most, I think)
Billy Jack Goes To Washington (Never released )

Yeah, today, watching them is kind of painful...but Tom Laughlin and his wife made them on spit and paste. You have to admire that.

By the way, Billy Jack was the first film where I saw any martial arts. I was spellbound. The scene where he says "I just go berserk!" still sends a shiver up my spine.

A few years ago, I did a Google search on Tom Laughlin, and saw that he was in bad health.

The martial art they show is Hapkido. A Korean martial art. You see in the fight scenes where the resident Hapkido Master actually did the techniques.

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MikeAmbrosio

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

I have the set of 4 Billy Jack movies.

Born Losers
Billy Jack (By far the best known)
The Trial Of Billy Jack (I liked it the most, I think)
Billy Jack Goes To Washington (Never released )

Yeah, today, watching them is kind of painful...but Tom Laughlin and his wife made them on spit and paste. You have to admire that.

By the way, Billy Jack was the first film where I saw any martial arts. I was spellbound. The scene where he says "I just go berserk!" still sends a shiver up my spine.

A few years ago, I did a Google search on Tom Laughlin, and saw that he was in bad health.

The martial art they show is Hapkido. A Korean martial art. You see in the fight scenes where the resident Hapkido Master actually did the techniques.

My wife got me that set last year for Christmas. Time to pull them out again.

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Claude Whitacre

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeAmbrosio

My wife got me that set last year for Christmas. Time to pull them out again.

I'm not sure exactly why, but Born Losers and Billy Jack Goes To Washington are almost unwatchable. I don't mean the film quality, but Born Losers was just not at all the same movie as Billy Jack.
And BJGTW is just soooo heavy handed with his politics, that it was hard for me to watch it between karate scenes. And then Laughlin and his wife tried to do the fight scenes themselves, with less than stellar results.

Maybe if I had seen the last movie in 1975 I'd have a different perspective.

It also just occurred to me that when I watched the movies the first time, I had no martial arts experience, and I was dazzled by anything that looked remotely like karate. And later, the same scenes looked nonsensical.

And maybe I still have a cold, and I'm just grumpy.

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MikeAmbrosio

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

I'm not sure exactly why, but Born Losers and Billy Jack Goes To Washington are almost unwatchable. I don't mean the film quality, but Born Losers was just not at all the same movie as Billy Jack.
And BJGTW is just soooo heavy handed with his politics, that it was hard for me to watch it between karate scenes. And then Laughlin and his wife tried to do the fight scenes themselves, with less than stellar results.

Maybe if I had seen the last movie in 1975 I'd have a different perspective.

It also just occurred to me that when I watched the movies the first time, I had no martial arts experience, and I was dazzled by anything that looked remotely like karate. And later, the same scenes looked nonsensical.

And maybe I still have a cold, and I'm just grumpy.

I can't comment to BJGTW as I have yet to watch it. Kept planning to...

I saw Born Losers well before Billy Jack and didn't make the connection that it was the same character until a few years later.

As someone with NO martial arts training, I can say that it's fun to watch specifically because I don't know enough about martial arts to pick the fight scenes apart

In any case, they're entertaining. When I was in the Navy, I watched Billy Jack over and over with some friends and lots of alcohol and eventually we could recite the lines right along with the movie.

Come to think of it - we did that with The Breakfast Club too. Darn booze...

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Claude Whitacre

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeAmbrosio

I can't comment to BJGTW as I have yet to watch it. Kept planning to...

I saw Born Losers well before Billy Jack and didn't make the connection that it was the same character until a few years later.

Same here. I saw Billy Jack, and years later saw Born Losers. I still didn't think of it as a Billy Jack movie. Billy Jack was a real step up, I thought.

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KimW

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

I have the set of 4 Billy Jack movies.

Born Losers
Billy Jack (By far the best known)
The Trial Of Billy Jack (I liked it the most, I think)
Billy Jack Goes To Washington (Never released )

Yeah, today, watching them is kind of painful...but Tom Laughlin and his wife made them on spit and paste. You have to admire that.

By the way, Billy Jack was the first film where I saw any martial arts. I was spellbound. The scene where he says "I just go berserk!" still sends a shiver up my spine.

A few years ago, I did a Google search on Tom Laughlin, and saw that he was in bad health.

The martial art they show is Hapkido. A Korean martial art. You see in the fight scenes where the resident Hapkido Master actually did the techniques.

I did a search also and saw he was in poor health and he appeared to need money. His store had items such as the Billy Jack hat for ,I think, $250.
All the items seemed ridiculously high.

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jacktackett

10 years ago

Bummer, definitely have good memories of watching the films with my friends at the time. RIP.

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Sarevok

10 years ago

That sucks man.

I watched Billy Jack a few years ago, and I remember it giving me warm fuzzies.

It's on Netflix btw, gonna give it a second whirl. :]

Travel Well, Mr. Laughlin

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Claude Whitacre 10 years ago

My favorite scene. The fighting is nonsense, but the scene itself is memorable.

And when I first saw it in the early 1070's, I thought it was amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXXyms5g5ok
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- seasoned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  And when I first saw it in the early 1070's, I thought it was amazing.
  
  WOW! You are FAR older than I thought!
  
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