I worked on this movie. I helped build the town that is in the beginning of the movie. It was built on the banks of the Green River in Utah in the town of Dutch John. We just built false fronts of buildings, not the whole buildings, I have visited Dutch John numerous times since to fish the Green River and always make it a point to walk up to where the town used to be. All that is left now are a pile of rotten boards and several rocks circles for fires which are now full of empty beer cans and bottles. I was allowed to dress up in era costume and walk with the townspeople when they shot that village scene. It was a favorite time in my life!
Thanks for sharing, we live close to Canada, Montana border. A little bit of a mountain man. With a good wife, very blessed, wach your back trail. Great movie. My wife gives me a hard time when I put it on.😅
I saw this in the theater when it was first released. It is still my favorite movie. ‘’You’ve come far pilgrim. Feels like far.’’ What an understatement.
When I took my girlfriend to a drive in movie theater when I was young she got so upset that all I did was watch the movie which I gladly made her forget about over the next hour. Those were some of the Best days in my life. When I was 23 I became a Respiratory Therapist because of a discussion I had with one when I was in traction for a back injury. There was a 200 to 1 ratio of women to men and if you took into account the gay men and those men already married the ratio was 350 to 1 . What else can I say.
No, she weren’t no trouble. Her death and the boys death were big trouble on his soul which the Crow tribe soon found out how much trouble. One of the greatest vengeance retribution movies ever made. The Outlaw Josey Wales was definitely in the same ballpark in the revenge department. I think Clint might have borrowed a little of the idea for Josey Wales from Jeremiah Johnson. Robert Redford is one of the best actors of the past 60+ years. For me Jeremiah Johnson is his finest film with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid second, at least films guys like. My wife likes Barefoot in the Park and The Way We Were. I did enjoy Barefoot, Roberts comedy side was very good in that film.
73 here, and I have loved this movie since it came out in 1972, 3 years after I graduated high school. Also, since I was at UCLA I’ve been partial to the Crow. “Watch your topknot.” = Don’t get scalped!
I remember watching it as a kid with my grandpa, not really knowing what was totally going on. Then watched it up north with my friends a couple years ago and i couldnt believe i didnt remember the movie. One of my favorites.
A lot of veterans have done the same thing, both my grandfathers did, which is why this is such a compelling human story. His soul was wounded by war, he wanted to get away from everything to find peace, but instead conflict chased his every step, so he had to find peace within himself instead.
My dad was in the Pacific Theatre during no WW II but he was armed with no a hammer and saw he said the Marines would be fighting at one end of a runway while they the Seabees were at the other end repairing the runways and clearing the trash
I had an uncle who was a SeaBee, rebuilt the airfield on Tinian, He was good natured but you could see the stress and melancholy in his face.@@patbrewer4205
@@patbrewer4205 Your comment got me thinking how my dad spent WW2 in the Pacific Theater as well, though he was "repairing" marines (at both Iwo Jima and Okinawa). He was 18 years old and a corpsman! 😊Gotta say that those Seabees were serious badasses!!! When I was growing up it seemed like most every adult male of my dads age was a WW2 veteran. I think that war being an experience shared by so many made it a little easier for them to handle the experience, but both my dad and uncle (a marine in the Pacific) saw and experienced things that I can only say I'm glad to have avoided.
If you want to find more about John "Liver-Eating" Johnson, you can Goggle him. Good article on him. He died in 1900 and buried in the Veterans graveyard in L.A., CA. After the film came out, a group of 25, 7th graders, fought and won, on having his body moved from L.A. to Cody WY. Robert Redford was one of his pallbearers, when they reburied him. Two Books about him are "Crow Killer" and "Liver-eating Johnson". Also, it's a 50 year old film and it still holds up beautifully!
@@stefanlaskowski6660 I'm pretty sure Johnson had a big hand in promoting his own story. Back then it was all word of mouth, sharing stories that got bigger with each telling...including Johnson telling his own "big fish" stories. Funny the film made no mention of his time with wild west shows.
Johnson began one of the Old West’s most brutal vendettas. The murder of his wife and unborn child sent Johnson into a rage and changed the trajectory of his life. People living in the region - Native Americans and white mountain men - started finding the bodies of scalped Crow warriors. Not only were these victims scalped, but their livers had been cut out. As the body count piled up, some of the other mountain men learned of Johnson’s one-man vendetta against the Crow people and put two and two together: Johnson was hunting and killing Crow warriors. And he was eating their livers. Without onions! They began calling him Liver-Eating Johnson.
Cassie you chose a movie much loved by a lot of people. Glad you have learned to never judge a fim by its age. Some of the greatest lines ever written.
A few years ago I was just one of a few people left in a building right before a major holiday break. It was cold and snowing. As I was heading out, I passed a cube of a fellow worker, also getting ready to leave. We exchanged a few words and as I turned to leave he said out of the blue, "watch your top knot"... now I promise you there was not a person within 300 miles who would know the reply to that...I said, "watch you'rn" and turned and made way back home...
When Jeremiah passed through the grave site the first time all of the dead skulls were looking at the sky. When he came back they were all facing the trail he would have to use. That is how he knew bad things had happened.
"Touched" is an expression that means one has lost their mind. In this case the trauma was too great for the woman and her small boy was so traumatized that he never spoke again.
@LiberPater777 Thunderbirds and Wakinyan was near, catching a glimpse of a Thunderbird meant you became Heyoka... Man who laughs historically, eats grass, and walks on all fours.
The older actor who played Bear Claw is Will Greer. After this he acted in a made for TV movie called “The Homecoming”. It was about a poor family living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia during The Great Depression. It’s Christmas time and the family is waiting for the patriarch of the family who is away from home looking for work to support his family. That Movie spun off into a TV series called “The Waltons” that was one of the most popular TV series in the 70’s. It’s about the only program on TV that explored life in America during The Great Depression. That era now is just history in books kids might read about today and not really understand just how difficult life was during that time in the 1930’s. I’m in my 60’s now and both my parents were children during the Great Depression and often spoke about how everyone was poor back then and how hard families had to work just to put food on the table. My Grandparents were emotionally scarred for life by the Great Depression. Anyway my point being is I recommend watching The Homecoming. It’s a very heartwarming Christmas story during a truly difficult time.
Yes, this movie is character driven and absent all the CGI BS garbage pawned off on audiences today. If TikTok is your main source of entertainment, your attention span is TOO short to handle this iconic movie.
It always struck me that as the movie ends he starts meeting people in the reverse order of how he met them in first part of the movie, sort of unwinding it to how he started.
Same. I love the symmetry of that. Took me a couple of watchings to notice that (or maybe I got older). It has that great arc of early contempt "He says, You fish poorly" to the respect at the end from the Crow chief and the others.
My favorite aspect of the movie is the circular structure of the plot. He meets Paints His Shirt Red, Bear Claw, Crazy Woman, Del Gue, Swan. Once Swan is passed he encounters Del, back to Crazy Woman’s cabin, Bear Claw, and ends with Paints.
I was born in SW Missouri, the Ozarks. We lived way back in the hills on a homestead. We had a few conveniences, but pretty much raised our own meat and veggies. This was in the 70s. I'm 60 years old now and not very good health, but I live alone and much like that. Jeremiah Johnson was one of my top 5 movies. My Dad and I would catch it on tv and Dad would say" Pay attention, he knows what he's doing. " Dad was born not 7 miles from where I'm sitting. He grew up during the great depression. I learned a lifetime from him.
@@mega00760I agree with Three Days of The Condor and I'll add to that The Hot Rock, and Brubaker...... As for Faye Dunaway for me it's a slam dunk The Thomas crown affair..... That was some major league chemistry between those two and a great storyline 😎🥃
That great scene at the end with RR and Cliff Robertson, "How do you know they'll print it?" The look of doubt from Redford, brutal. I think we know the answer if it happened today.
When he lays the bodies of his family by each other in that bed and covers them like he's tucking them in, it nails me no matter how many times I've seen it.
I grew up on the reservation and this is one of my favorite movies. A Man Called Horse, Winter Hawk, Grey Eagle, The Outlaw Joesy Wales, Tombstone, Young Guns, and my all time favorite Is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Also the Cowboys was a personal favorite, I miss being young. It would be a blessing to turn back time and be with family watching my hero’s.
Grew up watching these with my grandpa in the 80's. You've got great taste. He didn't wanna give a "way too modern" Young Guns a chance, but ended up laughing his butt off and loving it.
I saw this in the theater with my first love, Theresa. She watched the movie on my shoulder and would look away and bury her face in my shoulder when things got intense and cried when he got back to the cabin. She was a very pretty blonde like you, 18 at the time. Thanks for the memory.
"Watch your Topknot" means keep an eye out, so's you don't get scalped. "Because you are... Touched" means that The Crazy Woman went mad because of her grief over losing her girls. The Crow probably killed them, but because she's crazy the Crow think she's now possessed by evil spirits. Many men went into the uncharted wilderness Lewis and Clark explored, driven by the lucrative Beaver trade and their good prices, being used back East and in Europe for expensive hats and coat collars. Same with Buffalo. Actor and musician Tim McIntire wrote the music and sang the Theme. He had a few roles in Film and TV.
19:25 This meme will live on in internet culture forever. Thank you, Robert Redford. The sideways posture, the zoom...that is the epitome of a "nod of approval".
Robert Redford starred in a movie, "The Last Castle", in 2001 that I think you would love. He is a good bit older but it's just a great movie. Thank you for another great reaction Cassie. 😄
The slow pace of the movie is to help show the isolation, loneliness and vastness of the wilderness. Great reaction. Keep that open mind when it comes to these classic movies and it will serve you well pilgrim.😉
I believe Robert Redford’s Hollywood debut was in a 1962 episode of The Twilight Zone called Nothing in the Dark. A wonderfully acted episode with great writing, that showcased a young Redford’s talent. I feel it’s definitely worth a watch.
This movie along with "The Outlaw Josey Wales" are tied for my favorite westerns. If you havent watched that one you should. At the end of this movie, the iconic scene of the Indian chief raising his hand in friendship and then Jeremiah Johnson coming to the realization of what it was and reaching back with every fiber of his being is just a masterful piece of directing and acting. You can see the desire in Robert Redford's face for the truce and him reaching out to grab it as if he will never let go, and the scene grabs at your emotions because you want it for him to. This was a great choice for you to watch and please consider also doing "The Outlaw Josey Wales" which is similar in that it is a story of a man who looses everything but finds peace at the end.
I'VE WAITED SO LONG FOR THIS! One of my favorite movies of ALL TIME! This movie, along with the book Hatchet got me into survivalism, outdoorsmanship and self reliance as a kid.
At the same time that this movie came out, the US was also experiencing the John Denver, hikey climby, Colorado/Utah-centric subculture movement. We had just left Vietnam and we (American society) was divided and lost, and this movement sprung up from that recentering/come to terms with our recent past movement. Like you, I got caught into it. Our uniforms were hiking boots, jeans, and flannel shirts with the sleeves rolled twice up our arms. We invested our money in Kelty packs, NorthFace sleeping bags, and just about anything from REI (when it still had a heart) and Gander Mountain. And this movie helped give that movement flavor. I went to Alaska for the first time to backpack the Bush for two weeks, alone, as a 17 year old one year after I saw this movie, in part because of this movie. I had a layover in Seattle, so I opted to extend the layover for a day and go into the city (actually I had to make a pilgrimage to REI - the original, 3 story warehouse that was on Capital Hill). College, then the military, then more college and eventually I went back to Seattle where I could still find that movement. I’m still there, but its flavor is gone. The subculture of this movie only lives now in memory - and crazy, boring old men. 😊
Judging by how many young homesteaders, survivalists and outdoorsmen I've seen online and IRL in just the last 3 years, the movement is still there, people, disillusioned with the state of things, still want to get out and see what they can see and live out on their own terms.
Afterward, Johnson returns home by the same route and notices that the graves are now adorned with Swan's blue trinkets; he rushes back to the cabin, where he finds both Swan and Caleb have been killed. Johnson sets off after the warriors who killed his family and attacks them, killing all but one, a heavy-set man
I loved this movie as a kid. Not overly dramatic just good steady storytelling as it narrated the journey of man weary of the world and the need to test his limits. Strong movie from first to last
this movie has always been considered one of the first to have a relative sympathetic view towards native Americans problems...came out around the time of the Wounded Knee uprising
My favorite line from the movie, that's never said at any time in a complete sentence: "Can't cheat the mountains, Pilgrim. The mountains got its own way". That is the full sentence, yet it is never said completely during the movie - only in parts at different times. That's a real cool sneaky Easter egg.
The Crazy Woman was played by Allyn Ann McLerie, a character actress with film credits such as "All The President's Men" and "The Way We Were". She also did a alot of TV work, including playing Gordon Jump's wife on "WKRP In Cincinnati". She's gone now, passed away back in 2018, aged 92.
In recent years I joke that Paints-His-Shirt-Red had no problem sending other braves to attack Johnson, but when faced with the man himself, quickly offered a truce.
Hey Cassie, an overture is a piece of music for the orchestra to play at the beginning of an opera or ballet. The word comes from the French word for "opening" because it "opens" the show. Overtures usually have tunes which are going to be heard during the opera or ballet. In this way it prepares the audience for what is to come. They usually run approximately 5 minutes. The intermission's original purpose was pretty practical. Back when movies were projected from reels of film, the intermission gave projectionists time to switch between reels without forcing the audience to sit in a dark, silent theater. It also let's people run to the bathroom to relieve their bladders after drinking gobs of giant-sized movie theater sodas. 🤡 Intermissions range in time but I think they also run about 5 minutes in length. 🎥
Such a great movie. This was one of my dad’s favorites when I was a kid, still is. And now, one of mine. Redford was in another good movie a few years later called “Three Days of the Condor” that I think you would like.
I am 56 now, but used to be allowed to stay up late sometimes when there was a good movie on TV, back when I was a kid. I watched this more than a few times with my Dad, up past my bedtime, back in the early to mid 70's. Still one of my favorites to this day.
This is one of my father's favorites, and always reminds me of him growing up hunting, fishing, and fur trapping. My mother and I jokingly say that if he hadn't met her he would have been another "Bearclaw" living in the wilderness. 😄 Info tidbit for you Cassie, the "smell" Jeremiah spoke about teaching Caleb how to trap; it's a lure usually made with the oils and other glandular excretions of the animal you're trying to catch. Trust me, they stink to high heaven but they DO work. 😂
Mountain men were trappers in the early 1800s when beaver pelts were high value to make felt hats. They tended to know one another because they would attend an annual rendezvous, where they could sell their pelts and get into all sorts of mischief. The stuff the boy was sprinkling on the beaver-trap set was castorium, which beavers secrete to mark their territories. A beaver, smelling the scent of a strange beaver would investigate and get in the trap. "Watch your topknot." Don't get scalped. This version is actually pretty sanitized. They called him "Liver-eating Johnson" because supposedly he ate the livers of the Crow he killed.
Redford was at the height of his popularity when the following year he made "The Way We Were" with Barbara Streisand. One of his earliest appearances was in a Twilight Zone episode in which he plays Death/The Grim Reaper. He also made a film with Jane Fonda called "Barefoot in the Park" before launching into mega star status as the Sundance Kid.
He wanted to escape the the pitfalls and troubles of everyday life and escaped to the mountains. But no matter where you go, the troubles will always be there, if people are there.
You're right, in the scene near the end when Bear Claw happens upon him, it seems Jeremiah almost misses life 'down there' when he asks "would you happen to know what time of the year it is", as if it's relevant, Bear Claw is slightly taken aback, seems as if he regrets his choice to be a 'Mountain Man' 'cause it weren't no differnt' than the normal trials and tribulations of life in general.
Life is hard for it's duration. What is joyful, love and good is like the seasons. They begin and end, and we just live thru them the best we can. (I smile at my chemo treatments.)
This film never fails to remind me of my grandpa. While Grandma usually selects what is watched on tv at their home, Saturdays are reserved for his westerns, especially John Wayne films. This is his favorite and is the only DVD he owns.
Same here. Except the last time I got to watch a western with my grandpa was nearly 23 years ago. I think of him often, especially when I watch movies like this.
I love the historical fiction. Being a civil war enthusiast I like the reference to many of the gorilla fighters if the civil war like Bloody Bill Anderson and Quantei
@@michaelmccoy8059 John Wayne references Captain Quantrel in True Grit when arguing with Glen Cambell’s character over who they each fought with during the war.
Filmed in Utah, that so impressed Redford that he bought property on Timpanogos mountain and named it Sundance. Now a world famous film festival held annually.
This is my favorite movie of all time. Saw it when it came out, and probably 8 times or so over the next 50 years. Happy to watch it here again. Thanks.
I first saw this in the theater when i was 9 years old with my Uncle and cousin. It was PG back then. Anyway, it stuck with me after all of these years. I have fond memories because of my family. Still watch it every now and then
This is one of my favorite films, among a few others. I usually watch this around late fall or early winter. Very relaxing and calm film, but a film I feel that fits me. Enjoying solitude and relying on yourself, and continuing even when faced with hardship and loss.
Jeremiah Johnson was the rawest movie Robert Redford ever made. Maybe the most intelligent thing said was by Johnson's old friend, "You've been in these mountains too long". He became a god to the local tribes, and eventually killing him became away for a young brave to prove himself. After awhile his life was tied to the tribes. That's an amazing story you can't make up. It also proved Robert Redford to be one of the great stars.
A beautiful movie because of everything you said. You get the feeling of life as a mountain man. Nature at its finest. A look back in time at another era and lifestyle. I absolutely love this. Seeing it on the big screen was totally immersive. I saw it twice in the theaters and many more times on TV. Great reaction. I like that you're honest about not knowing if you liked it or not. It is an unusual film and that makes it all the better for me. (P.S. the little girl in the corn hide near the end is a young Tanya Tucker.). Thanks!
The real Jeremiah Johnson was one of the longest living mountain men on record, having lived to his 80s. In his lifetime, it's estimated he killed some 1200+ natives with 300 of them being Crow in single combat. He was a cannibal, known to eat the livers of his adversaries and had a particular knack for taking scalps.
I read an interview that Robert Redford gave about Jeremiah Johnson where he talked about trying to catch a fish in the winter stream. He said they only did one take and he was glad he had no lines as that water was so cold, he could not have gotten the line out. This is a favorite movie of mine that I love dearly. How about Three Days of the Condor soon?
"You cook good rabbit pilgrim". "I aint never seen'em, but I hear the Andes is nothing but foothills compared to the Rockies" Just a couple of quotes that I will always remember from this wonderful movie.
@@imahoare4742 "Were it worth the trouble?" "Ha? What trouble?" Is one of my favorite exchanges in the movie, given the way Redford delivers his response and the way Will Geer ever so slightly changes his expression in acknowledgement. Love that scene.
"Liver Eating Johnston". Still one of my favorite characters from history. Crazy Woman Creek is still one of my favorite places. Nostalgic, I know. And my 50 cal Hawkin is one of my favorite possession.
Jeremiah Johnson was a real man, his life as a mountain man is set in 1800's. This film was extrodinary. I first watched it in a theater when it came out. I was just a 11 yrs. The movie is one you can't take your eyes away from.
Great pick. This is one of the rare movies that gets you directly in the soul. Maybe one day you'll do Three Days of the Condor, also by Pollock and Redford or Spy Game because we know you love Brad Pitt.
I was just going to recommend 'Spy Game'. An older Redford, but he lost none of the charm and intelligence and wiliness that he has portrayed in so many of his films.
Just don't watch "Sneakers" (1992). Even though it's rated 7.1 on IMDb, with Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sydney Poitier, and Ben Kingsley, ... it's not worth it. The movie aged so quickly, and in a bad way. It had some decent ideas, even good ones at times. It simply lacks "coherence". From the techno nonsense, to the convoluted, ridiculous plot of the later half, the potential was lost in duct-taped, wayward/cliché, underthought execution. Could've been a classic, if only someone had a proper global vision for it, from start to finish.
One of my all time favorite films. The mountain men opened up the west for the rest. They had to be tough physically and spiritually to survive in the wilderness. I envy them for they saw the continent untouched in all its glory. ✋🏻
The continent hasn't been "untouched" since people first settled in the Americas millennia ago. Humans have always modified their environment to better suit themselves. It's just that people with less means to change the landscape can only do so much.
First time I seen this was back in 1974 when I was 10 years old when it came on TV and me and my Dad watched it together...I loved it and was in awe of the setting and of course Robert Redford was so well known back then....It was pretty mature movie for my age but that is what made it fascinating for me ........ one of the "classics" for me....
"3 Days of the Condor" (1975) is a spy thriller co-starring Faye Dunaway that moves along nicely, so it might be the Redford film that you are looking for (young handsome Redford, good action, some romance, good director). Otherwise, maybe a new direction wold suit you, like the 1981 essentially true story of 2 runners in the 1924 Olympics which was nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture, "Chariots of Fire" (1981).
Thank you for watching this movie. It is one of I and my father's favorites. Another great one from Robert Redford is "The Last Castle" which provides lessons in character, loyalty, integrity, honor, courage, and self-sacrifice. Let your father know that he has great taste in movies and you do him proud.
Thank you for watching this movie. Redford wanted badly to tell this story, but the studio wouldn’t give him the full budget he asked for, so much of this film he shot at his Sundance ranch. I have loved this movie since I watched it in the theater. It was not a big box office hit, but if you get this movie, then it is huge. “Civilized Man” wounded his soul, so he was on a journey to escape from his past and find his own world. In that last scene, Jeremiah finally made peace with his past (or more correctly, his past made peace with him). Wow! The way he portrayed his recurring battles with his past is brilliant. But to make peace with his past, it cost him everything (like it did for Thanos, but different. 😉)
I just learned that the meme was actually old. For all these years I thought that was Zack Gallafinakis doing the meme. I had no doubt it was Zack, until i Saw the thumbnail for this thing. I played myself in some kind of mandala effect. I still cant believe its a real person, or part of something "not funny" and not a meme. Incredible.
The fastest I have ever clicked on a PiB video. This is my fathers favorite movie, and became mine, through him. Some random trivia: Jeremiah is wearing “Swan”’s clothes when he gets his revenge, and the beads on the skeleton (according to the book at least), were either hers, or reminded him of hers. Also, she was pregnant, which makes it even more tragic. This was partially filmed on Robert Redford’s own land, and the actress for “Swan” was the very last to audition. I love this film, tragedy and all. Thanks for giving this film a chance and watching it, Cassie! PS Papa Popcorn does indeed have great taste, as do you and the rest of the fam 🙂
My favorite line in this movie is when Jeremiah says to the boy, "Nothing wrong with quiet." ....taking all pressure off the kid, and letting him just be himself
I love that you are watching this movie. I have only seen one other person react to this one. This is one of my personal favorites and still have a memory as a 10 year old boy seeing this movie at the Dundee theater in Omaha NE. I saw many movie as a child, some I remember but most I don’t, this one however, left an impression that endures to this day. Such a simple story of a man trying desperately to make his way in an oftentimes cruel world but still manages to find some piece and beauty in the simple things. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. 0:30
I saw that at the theater in my hometown in 73ish, I can now put the DVD in, and it still brings back memories and feelings of a 10-year-old small-town boy. 👍✌
A Mexican-American War veteran, Johnson (Redford) heads to the mountains to live in isolation. Woefully unequipped for the task at hand, his fortunate to come across a seasoned mountain man Chris (Geer) willing to teach him the necessary survival tactics. As life continues in the mountains, he finds himself a native bride Swan (Bolton) and an adopted son Caleb (Albee). However, their peaceful existence is threatened when he incurs the ire of the Crow Indians.
A good "companion movie" to J.J. is "The Mountain Men", with Charlton Heston. It is also based on history/ a mountain man's diary. There is a "love interest" in it, too, but it's not nearly as tender as the story between JJ and Swan.
Good choice and great reaction. So many great films were made in the 70's and this is a classic American western film. I'd love to see more reactions from you to more 70's classics. Clint Eastwood's, The Outlaw Josey Wales is a good followup to this film. It has a somewhat similar tone: a man on his own, out in the wild west. 🥂
Originally his name was "John Johnson" but he changed it after punching an officer and deserting from the Navy. Though he was also known as "Johnson the Crow killer" because it's thought he killed between 150 and 250 Crow Indians. Also known as "Johnson the Liver eater" because he was known to remove, cook and eat in a cannibalistic way the livers of some of the Crow Indians he killed. All-in-all a fascinating story.
He was known a "Liver eating Johnson". He hunted down and killed every one of the Indians who killed his family. The Crow hunted him for years. Another movie that came out about the same time was "Man in the Wilderness" it was an epic also. Good reaction. You keep surprising me.
I worked on this movie. I helped build the town that is in the beginning of the movie. It was built on the banks of the Green River in Utah in the town of Dutch John. We just built false fronts of buildings, not the whole buildings, I have visited Dutch John numerous times since to fish the Green River and always make it a point to walk up to where the town used to be. All that is left now are a pile of rotten boards and several rocks circles for fires which are now full of empty beer cans and bottles. I was allowed to dress up in era costume and walk with the townspeople when they shot that village scene. It was a favorite time in my life!
I've been to Dutch John when I worked in Rock Springs. People there I met were very nice.
Great story. Good for you. Always nice seeing people talk about their glory days and sounds like that was yours.
Thanks for sharing, we live close to Canada, Montana border. A little bit of a mountain man. With a good wife, very blessed, wach your back trail. Great movie. My wife gives me a hard time when I put it on.😅
Wow
Thank you for helping make one of my family's favorite movies.
I saw this in the theater when it was first released. It is still my favorite movie. ‘’You’ve come far pilgrim. Feels like far.’’ What an understatement.
She lucked out. Lol
Same for me. I saw it in the theater as a kid and it has always been my favorite movie.
@@Jonno2summit I as well saw this in 1972 when it 1st came out, Valencia Theater, Evanston, IL.
When I took my girlfriend to a drive in movie theater when I was young she got so upset that all I did was watch the movie which I gladly made her forget about over the next hour. Those were some of the Best days in my life. When I was 23 I became a Respiratory Therapist because of a discussion I had with one when I was in traction for a back injury. There was a 200 to 1 ratio of women to men and if you took into account the gay men and those men already married the ratio was 350 to 1 . What else can I say.
@steveturner3999 saw it too when it first came out in the theater...been my favorite movie of all time ever since...
"She weren't no trouble," is low-key one of the saddest most romantic lines in film.😥
Mountain man speak is always understatement. They both knew it meant she was wonderful!
Breaks my heart every time. 😢
He loved his family.
No, she weren’t no trouble. Her death and the boys death were big trouble on his soul which the Crow tribe soon found out how much trouble. One of the greatest vengeance retribution movies ever made. The Outlaw Josey Wales was definitely in the same ballpark in the revenge department. I think Clint might have borrowed a little of the idea for Josey Wales from Jeremiah Johnson. Robert Redford is one of the best actors of the past 60+ years. For me Jeremiah Johnson is his finest film with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid second, at least films guys like. My wife likes Barefoot in the Park and The Way We Were. I did enjoy Barefoot, Roberts comedy side was very good in that film.
Such a sad line..so simple....so sad
The older one gets, the more a person understands this great film.
I've appreciated it since I was a teenager. Great movie.
73 here, and I have loved this movie since it came out in 1972, 3 years after I graduated high school.
Also, since I was at UCLA I’ve been partial to the Crow.
“Watch your topknot.” = Don’t get scalped!
I remember watching it as a kid with my grandpa, not really knowing what was totally going on. Then watched it up north with my friends a couple years ago and i couldnt believe i didnt remember the movie. One of my favorites.
A lot of veterans have done the same thing, both my grandfathers did, which is why this is such a compelling human story. His soul was wounded by war, he wanted to get away from everything to find peace, but instead conflict chased his every step, so he had to find peace within himself instead.
Deeply accurate and wise.
My dad was in the Pacific Theatre during no WW II but he was armed with no a hammer and saw he said the Marines would be fighting at one end of a runway while they the Seabees were at the other end repairing the runways and clearing the trash
I had an uncle who was a SeaBee, rebuilt the airfield on Tinian, He was good natured but you could see the stress and melancholy in his face.@@patbrewer4205
@@patbrewer4205 Your comment got me thinking how my dad spent WW2 in the Pacific Theater as well, though he was "repairing" marines (at both Iwo Jima and Okinawa). He was 18 years old and a corpsman! 😊Gotta say that those Seabees were serious badasses!!! When I was growing up it seemed like most every adult male of my dads age was a WW2 veteran. I think that war being an experience shared by so many made it a little easier for them to handle the experience, but both my dad and uncle (a marine in the Pacific) saw and experienced things that I can only say I'm glad to have avoided.
Yeah that's what I was wondering. I assumed he wanted the mountain life to get away from war and conflict. Then it just followed him there.
"Was it worth the trouble?"
"What trouble?"
Big life lesson right there, distilled to purity.
Perfection
seeing and hearing this as a 11 year old boy made an impreddion that has lasted a life time
What a world we would have if that type of attitude could return, en mass!
If you want to find more about John "Liver-Eating" Johnson, you can Goggle him. Good article on him. He died in 1900 and buried in the Veterans graveyard in L.A., CA. After the film came out, a group of 25, 7th graders, fought and won, on having his body moved from L.A. to Cody WY. Robert Redford was one of his pallbearers, when they reburied him. Two Books about him are "Crow Killer" and "Liver-eating Johnson".
Also, it's a 50 year old film and it still holds up beautifully!
Both excellent books, totally different stories and both better than this film.
I read them both many years ago. Excellent reads.
@@stefanlaskowski6660 I'm pretty sure Johnson had a big hand in promoting his own story. Back then it was all word of mouth, sharing stories that got bigger with each telling...including Johnson telling his own "big fish" stories. Funny the film made no mention of his time with wild west shows.
Johnson began one of the Old West’s most brutal vendettas.
The murder of his wife and unborn child sent Johnson into a rage and changed the trajectory of his life. People living in the region - Native Americans and white mountain men - started finding the bodies of scalped Crow warriors.
Not only were these victims scalped, but their livers had been cut out. As the body count piled up, some of the other mountain men learned of Johnson’s one-man vendetta against the Crow people and put two and two together: Johnson was hunting and killing Crow warriors.
And he was eating their livers. Without onions! They began calling him Liver-Eating Johnson.
Cassie you chose a movie much loved by a lot of people. Glad you have learned to never judge a fim by its age. Some of the greatest lines ever written.
In my opinion, the absolute best Western sound track, I found a CD copy of the sound track a few years back.
A few years ago I was just one of a few people left in a building right before a major holiday break. It was cold and snowing. As I was heading out, I passed a cube of a fellow worker, also getting ready to leave. We exchanged a few words and as I turned to leave he said out of the blue, "watch your top knot"... now I promise you there was not a person within 300 miles who would know the reply to that...I said, "watch you'rn" and turned and made way back home...
Ride due west of the Sunset And turn left at the Rocky Mountain!
When Jeremiah passed through the grave site the first time all of the dead skulls were looking at the sky. When he came back they were all facing the trail he would have to use. That is how he knew bad things had happened.
His wife beads are also there
I appreciate you pointing that out, as I'd missed that despite multiple viewings. Thanks
@@Dularr damn, that just made the entire scene fall into place for me, as before now I merely figured he just felt a sense of dread. Appreciate it.
@@skylinerunner1695- Same. I've seen the movie many times, and never noticed either of those details.
Thanks, @jamiegagnon6390
I've seen this movie many times and never noticed. You just blew my mind. Thank you
"A tribe's greatness is judged by how mighty their enemies be" love that quote
Not the most accurate statement, but one can see how a savage would think it is.
"Touched" is an expression that means one has lost their mind. In this case the trauma was too great for the woman and her small boy was so traumatized that he never spoke again.
"Touched by madness"
Some Indians didn't mess with those who weren't all there mentally. Bad medicine/juju doing so, so to speak.
@LiberPater777 Thunderbirds and Wakinyan was near, catching a glimpse of a Thunderbird meant you became Heyoka... Man who laughs historically, eats grass, and walks on all fours.
@@LiberPater777 " Don't mess with " Joe Boo's rum. "
The older actor who played Bear Claw is Will Greer. After this he acted in a made for TV movie called “The Homecoming”. It was about a poor family living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia during The Great Depression. It’s Christmas time and the family is waiting for the patriarch of the family who is away from home looking for work to support his family.
That Movie spun off into a TV series called “The Waltons” that was one of the most popular TV series in the 70’s.
It’s about the only program on TV that explored life in America during The Great Depression. That era now is just history in books kids might read about today and not really understand just how difficult life was during that time in the 1930’s.
I’m in my 60’s now and both my parents were children during the Great Depression and often spoke about how everyone was poor back then and how hard families had to work just to put food on the table. My Grandparents were emotionally scarred for life by the Great Depression.
Anyway my point being is I recommend watching The Homecoming. It’s a very heartwarming Christmas story during a truly difficult time.
@@Mottleydude1 I remember that it was also the plot for the movie " Spencer's Mountain ".
Movies in this era were much more pensive, unlike the non-stop manic action demanded today. The contrast is indeed stark.
the actors are not strong enough to keep focus,,, they have to rely on shock and awe
Sadly, neither is the audience.@@RichFrye
Yes, this movie is character driven and absent all the CGI BS garbage pawned off on audiences today. If TikTok is your main source of entertainment, your attention span is TOO short to handle this iconic movie.
It always struck me that as the movie ends he starts meeting people in the reverse order of how he met them in first part of the movie, sort of unwinding it to how he started.
Same. I love the symmetry of that. Took me a couple of watchings to notice that (or maybe I got older). It has that great arc of early contempt "He says, You fish poorly" to the respect at the end from the Crow chief and the others.
solid screenplay construction, and like life, we end where we start
I grew up with this movie. It’s one of my dad’s favorites. To me this is a nostalgic type movie. Thank you for giving it a chance. Love it. ❤️
Great movie. One of the first movies my father took me to.
My favorite aspect of the movie is the circular structure of the plot. He meets Paints His Shirt Red, Bear Claw, Crazy Woman, Del Gue, Swan. Once Swan is passed he encounters Del, back to Crazy Woman’s cabin, Bear Claw, and ends with Paints.
I was born in SW Missouri, the Ozarks. We lived way back in the hills on a homestead. We had a few conveniences, but pretty much raised our own meat and veggies. This was in the 70s. I'm 60 years old now and not very good health, but I live alone and much like that. Jeremiah Johnson was one of my top 5 movies. My Dad and I would catch it on tv and Dad would say" Pay attention, he knows what he's doing. " Dad was born not 7 miles from where I'm sitting. He grew up during the great depression. I learned a lifetime from him.
Three Days of the Condor is one of Robert Redford's best films. You should check it out.
it's his best and Fay's
@@mega00760I agree with Three Days of The Condor and I'll add to that The Hot Rock, and Brubaker...... As for Faye Dunaway for me it's a slam dunk The Thomas crown affair..... That was some major league chemistry between those two and a great storyline 😎🥃
That great scene at the end with RR and Cliff Robertson, "How do you know they'll print it?" The look of doubt from Redford, brutal.
I think we know the answer if it happened today.
When he lays the bodies of his family by each other in that bed and covers them like he's tucking them in, it nails me no matter how many times I've seen it.
I grew up on the reservation and this is one of my favorite movies. A Man Called Horse, Winter Hawk, Grey Eagle, The Outlaw Joesy Wales, Tombstone, Young Guns, and my all time favorite Is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Also the Cowboys was a personal favorite, I miss being young. It would be a blessing to turn back time and be with family watching my hero’s.
Wow…a man called horse is a little remembered gem!
The mountain men, Will Penny,
Black Robe, Windwalker and a A Man Called Horse are my favourite first nation movies.
Grew up watching these with my grandpa in the 80's. You've got great taste. He didn't wanna give a "way too modern" Young Guns a chance, but ended up laughing his butt off and loving it.
Josey Wales is another favorite of mine as well.
Chief Dan George's performance is such a classic! 🤙😎
I saw this in the theater with my first love, Theresa. She watched the movie on my shoulder and would look away and bury her face in my shoulder when things got intense and cried when he got back to the cabin. She was a very pretty blonde like you, 18 at the time. Thanks for the memory.
"Watch your Topknot" means keep an eye out, so's you don't get scalped. "Because you are... Touched" means that The Crazy Woman went mad because of her grief over losing her girls. The Crow probably killed them, but because she's crazy the Crow think she's now possessed by evil spirits.
Many men went into the uncharted wilderness Lewis and Clark explored, driven by the lucrative Beaver trade and their good prices, being used back East and in Europe for expensive hats and coat collars. Same with Buffalo.
Actor and musician Tim McIntire wrote the music and sang the Theme. He had a few roles in Film and TV.
19:25 This meme will live on in internet culture forever. Thank you, Robert Redford. The sideways posture, the zoom...that is the epitome of a "nod of approval".
until now i thought that was Zach Galifianakis ......
Robert Redford starred in a movie, "The Last Castle", in 2001 that I think you would love. He is a good bit older but it's just a great movie. Thank you for another great reaction Cassie. 😄
Yes I second that love that movie it's on Netflix
The slow pace of the movie is to help show the isolation, loneliness and vastness of the wilderness. Great reaction. Keep that open mind when it comes to these classic movies and it will serve you well pilgrim.😉
Great review! Robert Redford has stated that this is his favorite movie that he ever did.
His best. Inevitability of war, no escape from conflict, revenge.
Redford built his home in Sundance, Utah. Many of the mountain scenes were filmed in the area before the town of Sundance was built.
It's my favorite movie he ever did too.
I believe Robert Redford’s Hollywood debut was in a 1962 episode of The Twilight Zone called Nothing in the Dark.
A wonderfully acted episode with great writing, that showcased a young Redford’s talent. I feel it’s definitely worth a watch.
Yes. He was the Grim Reaper. I think it echoed into inspiration for "Meet Joe Black" decades later.
This movie along with "The Outlaw Josey Wales" are tied for my favorite westerns. If you havent watched that one you should. At the end of this movie, the iconic scene of the Indian chief raising his hand in friendship and then Jeremiah Johnson coming to the realization of what it was and reaching back with every fiber of his being is just a masterful piece of directing and acting. You can see the desire in Robert Redford's face for the truce and him reaching out to grab it as if he will never let go, and the scene grabs at your emotions because you want it for him to.
This was a great choice for you to watch and please consider also doing "The Outlaw Josey Wales" which is similar in that it is a story of a man who looses everything but finds peace at the end.
"Govorments dont live together people do" that and "there is iron in your words and so it shall be life" really good quotes
You have good taste in movies. Those are my two favorite Westerns.
"Watch your top knot." Is an expression essentially meaning don't get scalped.
I'VE WAITED SO LONG FOR THIS! One of my favorite movies of ALL TIME!
This movie, along with the book Hatchet got me into survivalism, outdoorsmanship and self reliance as a kid.
At the same time that this movie came out, the US was also experiencing the John Denver, hikey climby, Colorado/Utah-centric subculture movement. We had just left Vietnam and we (American society) was divided and lost, and this movement sprung up from that recentering/come to terms with our recent past movement. Like you, I got caught into it.
Our uniforms were hiking boots, jeans, and flannel shirts with the sleeves rolled twice up our arms. We invested our money in Kelty packs, NorthFace sleeping bags, and just about anything from REI (when it still had a heart) and Gander Mountain. And this movie helped give that movement flavor.
I went to Alaska for the first time to backpack the Bush for two weeks, alone, as a 17 year old one year after I saw this movie, in part because of this movie. I had a layover in Seattle, so I opted to extend the layover for a day and go into the city (actually I had to make a pilgrimage to REI - the original, 3 story warehouse that was on Capital Hill). College, then the military, then more college and eventually I went back to Seattle where I could still find that movement. I’m still there, but its flavor is gone. The subculture of this movie only lives now in memory - and crazy, boring old men. 😊
Judging by how many young homesteaders, survivalists and outdoorsmen I've seen online and IRL in just the last 3 years, the movement is still there, people, disillusioned with the state of things, still want to get out and see what they can see and live out on their own terms.
hey someone else read hatchet? i learned you can cut an airplane with an axe and that moose are to be feared :)
@@craigbabin7940 My Side of the Mountain another good one along the same lines. Both are excellent books
This was one of my dad’s favorite movies. I’ve watched it more than a couple times with him. It sure brings back memories.
We appreciate you doing this one. My dad watched this with his brothers in theaters when he was 9.
Same age as me when this came out. My dad loved this movie and I watched it with him my first time seeing it.
Afterward, Johnson returns home by the same route and notices that the graves are now adorned with Swan's blue trinkets; he rushes back to the cabin, where he finds both Swan and Caleb have been killed. Johnson sets off after the warriors who killed his family and attacks them, killing all but one, a heavy-set man
Great film written by John Milius. The young girl hiding in the corn crib was future country star Tanya Tucker.
I loved this movie as a kid. Not overly dramatic just good steady storytelling as it narrated the journey of man weary of the world and the need to test his limits. Strong movie from first to last
this movie has always been considered one of the first to have a relative sympathetic view towards native Americans problems...came out around the time of the Wounded Knee uprising
This one, and Little Big Man
@@skylinerunner1695 " A Man Called Sea Biscuit " trilogy.
My favorite line from the movie, that's never said at any time in a complete sentence: "Can't cheat the mountains, Pilgrim. The mountains got its own way". That is the full sentence, yet it is never said completely during the movie - only in parts at different times. That's a real cool sneaky Easter egg.
You just know Cassie is gone cry like never before. It's a heartbreaking movie, based on a true story. But it's still a great movie.
100%
The Crazy Woman was played by Allyn Ann McLerie, a character actress with film credits such as "All The President's Men" and "The Way We Were". She also did a alot of TV work, including playing Gordon Jump's wife on "WKRP In Cincinnati". She's gone now, passed away back in 2018, aged 92.
Delle Bolton was so sweet in this - the smile of pride that she gives him when he pulls the full trap up.
I love his ‘proclamations’ “I shall call you, Caleb.” I guess when you’re living life like that, you can it make up as you go.😂
I remember seeing this when it first came out. I was 12 years old. What a great film. Still holds up after all these years.
The hand signal at the end. The offering and accepting of a truce. He could live in peace.
In recent years I joke that Paints-His-Shirt-Red had no problem sending other braves to attack Johnson, but when faced with the man himself, quickly offered a truce.
Hey Cassie, an overture is a piece of music for the orchestra to play at the beginning of an opera or ballet. The word comes from the French word for "opening" because it "opens" the show. Overtures usually have tunes which are going to be heard during the opera or ballet. In this way it prepares the audience for what is to come. They usually run approximately 5 minutes.
The intermission's original purpose was pretty practical. Back when movies were projected from reels of film, the intermission gave projectionists time to switch between reels without forcing the audience to sit in a dark, silent theater. It also let's people run to the bathroom to relieve their bladders after drinking gobs of giant-sized movie theater sodas. 🤡
Intermissions range in time but I think they also run about 5 minutes in length. 🎥
Such a great movie. This was one of my dad’s favorites when I was a kid, still is. And now, one of mine. Redford was in another good movie a few years later called “Three Days of the Condor” that I think you would like.
Indeed. Condor is easily in my top 10 fave movies. And I've seen a few. I hope The Kernel Kween gives it a look!
Yes! Good recommend. Redford is amazing in Condor.
Was this filmed in tandem with Butch Cassidy? Looks like they used a lot of the same locations and sets.
@@user-jb8qq9fk6m It's alright. Max Bob Sydow has a good ring to it.
I am 56 now, but used to be allowed to stay up late sometimes when there was a good movie on TV, back when I was a kid. I watched this more than a few times with my Dad, up past my bedtime, back in the early to mid 70's. Still one of my favorites to this day.
This is one of my father's favorites, and always reminds me of him growing up hunting, fishing, and fur trapping. My mother and I jokingly say that if he hadn't met her he would have been another "Bearclaw" living in the wilderness. 😄
Info tidbit for you Cassie, the "smell" Jeremiah spoke about teaching Caleb how to trap; it's a lure usually made with the oils and other glandular excretions of the animal you're trying to catch. Trust me, they stink to high heaven but they DO work. 😂
So sad, so lonely, yet so beautiful. I was a teenager when I first saw this movie in 1972. I feel young again...
Mountain men were trappers in the early 1800s when beaver pelts were high value to make felt hats. They tended to know one another because they would attend an annual rendezvous, where they could sell their pelts and get into all sorts of mischief.
The stuff the boy was sprinkling on the beaver-trap set was castorium, which beavers secrete to mark their territories. A beaver, smelling the scent of a strange beaver would investigate and get in the trap.
"Watch your topknot." Don't get scalped.
This version is actually pretty sanitized. They called him "Liver-eating Johnson" because supposedly he ate the livers of the Crow he killed.
Redford was at the height of his popularity when the following year he made "The Way We Were" with Barbara Streisand. One of his earliest appearances was in a Twilight Zone episode in which he plays Death/The Grim Reaper. He also made a film with Jane Fonda called "Barefoot in the Park" before launching into mega star status as the Sundance Kid.
He wanted to escape the the pitfalls and troubles of everyday life and escaped to the mountains. But no matter where you go, the troubles will always be there, if people are there.
You're right, in the scene near the end when Bear Claw happens upon him, it seems Jeremiah almost misses life 'down there' when he asks "would you happen to know what time of the year it is", as if it's relevant, Bear Claw is slightly taken aback, seems as if he regrets his choice to be a 'Mountain Man' 'cause it weren't no differnt' than the normal trials and tribulations of life in general.
Life is hard for it's duration.
What is joyful, love and good is like the seasons. They begin and end, and we just live thru them the best we can.
(I smile at my chemo treatments.)
This film never fails to remind me of my grandpa. While Grandma usually selects what is watched on tv at their home, Saturdays are reserved for his westerns, especially John Wayne films. This is his favorite and is the only DVD he owns.
Same here. Except the last time I got to watch a western with my grandpa was nearly 23 years ago. I think of him often, especially when I watch movies like this.
A perfect follow up movie to this would be “The Outlaw Josey Wales” starring Clint Eastwood. Clint said it was his favorite western he ever did
Black Robe would be a perfect follow up.
DEFINTELY
I love the historical fiction. Being a civil war enthusiast I like the reference to many of the gorilla fighters if the civil war like Bloody Bill Anderson and Quantei
Bill Quantrel referenced was the leader of a guarilla Fighting group including Frank and Jessie James
@@michaelmccoy8059 John Wayne references Captain Quantrel in True Grit when arguing with Glen Cambell’s character over who they each fought with during the war.
Fantastic. This film is like life with so much tragedy. It brings me joy. I'm glad you've found it.
Filmed in Utah, that so impressed Redford that he bought property on Timpanogos mountain and named it Sundance. Now a world famous film festival held annually.
This movie make me feel so sad so much heartache and loss For innocent people !
Snow falling from a tree branch and squelching the fire is directly out of Jack London's story "To Build a Fire."
Such an amazing movie. My absolute favorite and it’s my tradition to watch it the night before deer bow season opens. Bear Claw is hilarious
This is my favorite movie of all time. Saw it when it came out, and probably 8 times or so over the next 50 years. Happy to watch it here again. Thanks.
I first saw this in the theater when i was 9 years old with my Uncle and cousin. It was PG back then. Anyway, it stuck with me after all of these years. I have fond memories because of my family. Still watch it every now and then
One of the best films I've ever seen. Great story, great actors and acting,great scenery and what an atmosphere it all sits within. Brilliant!
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This is one of my favorite films, among a few others. I usually watch this around late fall or early winter. Very relaxing and calm film, but a film I feel that fits me. Enjoying solitude and relying on yourself, and continuing even when faced with hardship and loss.
One of the greatest movies ever and one of my favorites
Saying " Lincoln Logs " made me so happy.
Jeremiah Johnson was the rawest movie Robert Redford ever made. Maybe the most intelligent thing said was by Johnson's old friend, "You've been in these mountains too long". He became a god to the local tribes, and eventually killing him became away for a young brave to prove himself. After awhile his life was tied to the tribes. That's an amazing story you can't make up. It also proved Robert Redford to be one of the great stars.
A beautiful movie because of everything you said. You get the feeling of life as a mountain man. Nature at its finest. A look back in time at another era and lifestyle. I absolutely love this. Seeing it on the big screen was totally immersive. I saw it twice in the theaters and many more times on TV. Great reaction. I like that you're honest about not knowing if you liked it or not. It is an unusual film and that makes it all the better for me. (P.S. the little girl in the corn hide near the end is a young Tanya Tucker.). Thanks!
The real Jeremiah Johnson was one of the longest living mountain men on record, having lived to his 80s. In his lifetime, it's estimated he killed some 1200+ natives with 300 of them being Crow in single combat. He was a cannibal, known to eat the livers of his adversaries and had a particular knack for taking scalps.
I read an interview that Robert Redford gave about Jeremiah Johnson where he talked about trying to catch a fish in the winter stream. He said they only did one take and he was glad he had no lines as that water was so cold, he could not have gotten the line out. This is a favorite movie of mine that I love dearly. How about Three Days of the Condor soon?
"It was slow but okay" .... you're learning patience, thats terrific!
"You cook good rabbit pilgrim".
"I aint never seen'em, but I hear the Andes is nothing but foothills compared to the Rockies"
Just a couple of quotes that I will always remember from this wonderful movie.
"You've come far pilgrim..."
"...feels like far."
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"Were it worth the trouble?"
"Ha? What trouble?"
Is one of my favorite exchanges in the movie, given the way Redford delivers his response and the way Will Geer ever so slightly changes his expression in acknowledgement.
Love that scene.
"Twernt Mormons"
@@williammcpeak8800 Are you all right?
Whenever anyone asks me where I'm going, I always say Same place you are. Hell in the end.
"Liver Eating Johnston". Still one of my favorite characters from history. Crazy Woman Creek is still one of my favorite places. Nostalgic, I know. And my 50 cal Hawkin is one of my favorite possession.
I think my favorite Robert Redford "look" is the one he had in "The Way We Were". It was a great movie.
Jeremiah Johnson was a real man, his life as a mountain man is set in 1800's. This film was extrodinary. I first watched
it in a theater when it came out. I was just a 11 yrs. The movie is one you can't take your eyes away from.
Great pick. This is one of the rare movies that gets you directly in the soul. Maybe one day you'll do Three Days of the Condor, also by Pollock and Redford or Spy Game because we know you love Brad Pitt.
Three Days of the Condor! Absolutely!
Downhill Racer and Electric Horseman
I was just going to recommend 'Spy Game'. An older Redford, but he lost none of the charm and intelligence and wiliness that he has portrayed in so many of his films.
Just don't watch "Sneakers" (1992). Even though it's rated 7.1 on IMDb, with Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sydney Poitier, and Ben Kingsley, ... it's not worth it. The movie aged so quickly, and in a bad way. It had some decent ideas, even good ones at times. It simply lacks "coherence". From the techno nonsense, to the convoluted, ridiculous plot of the later half, the potential was lost in duct-taped, wayward/cliché, underthought execution. Could've been a classic, if only someone had a proper global vision for it, from start to finish.
@35:05 My Father used to play this movie on Sunday's... all of us children would watch, while He would nap.
One of my all time favorite films. The mountain men opened up the west for the rest. They had to be tough physically and spiritually to survive in the wilderness. I envy them for they saw the continent untouched in all its glory. ✋🏻
And skinned all the animals
Kept thinking: they would be so screwed if he twisted his ankle bad or something like that. One stray axe swing and they're pretty much SOL.
The continent hasn't been "untouched" since people first settled in the Americas millennia ago. Humans have always modified their environment to better suit themselves. It's just that people with less means to change the landscape can only do so much.
I watched this movie in the late 70's, when I was still very young and it is still one of my favorite movies...
First time I seen this was back in 1974 when I was 10 years old when it came on TV and me and my Dad watched it together...I loved it and was in awe of the setting and of course Robert Redford was so well known back then....It was pretty mature movie for my age but that is what made it fascinating for me ........ one of the "classics" for me....
"His mountains, his peace, his great hunts and his young bride, with all that it should have been different."
"3 Days of the Condor" (1975) is a spy thriller co-starring Faye Dunaway that moves along nicely, so it might be the Redford film that you are looking for (young handsome Redford, good action, some romance, good director). Otherwise, maybe a new direction wold suit you, like the 1981 essentially true story of 2 runners in the 1924 Olympics which was nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture, "Chariots of Fire" (1981).
Wow! Someone actually listened to one of my comments! Thanks! Hope you enjoyed it!!
Niiiiice! I've been waiting for this! Jeremiah Johnson is one of my all-time favorites.
Thank you for watching this movie. It is one of I and my father's favorites. Another great one from Robert Redford is "The Last Castle" which provides lessons in character, loyalty, integrity, honor, courage, and self-sacrifice. Let your father know that he has great taste in movies and you do him proud.
Thank you for watching this movie. Redford wanted badly to tell this story, but the studio wouldn’t give him the full budget he asked for, so much of this film he shot at his Sundance ranch.
I have loved this movie since I watched it in the theater. It was not a big box office hit, but if you get this movie, then it is huge.
“Civilized Man” wounded his soul, so he was on a journey to escape from his past and find his own world. In that last scene, Jeremiah finally made peace with his past (or more correctly, his past made peace with him). Wow! The way he portrayed his recurring battles with his past is brilliant. But to make peace with his past, it cost him everything (like it did for Thanos, but different. 😉)
I just learned that the meme was actually old. For all these years I thought that was Zack Gallafinakis doing the meme. I had no doubt it was Zack, until i Saw the thumbnail for this thing. I played myself in some kind of mandala effect. I still cant believe its a real person, or part of something "not funny" and not a meme. Incredible.
The fastest I have ever clicked on a PiB video. This is my fathers favorite movie, and became mine, through him. Some random trivia: Jeremiah is wearing “Swan”’s clothes when he gets his revenge, and the beads on the skeleton (according to the book at least), were either hers, or reminded him of hers. Also, she was pregnant, which makes it even more tragic. This was partially filmed on Robert Redford’s own land, and the actress for “Swan” was the very last to audition. I love this film, tragedy and all. Thanks for giving this film a chance and watching it, Cassie! PS Papa Popcorn does indeed have great taste, as do you and the rest of the fam 🙂
My favorite line in this movie is when Jeremiah says to the boy, "Nothing wrong with quiet." ....taking all pressure off the kid, and letting him just be himself
I love that you are watching this movie. I have only seen one other person react to this one.
This is one of my personal favorites and still have a memory as a 10 year old boy seeing this movie at the Dundee theater in Omaha NE.
I saw many movie as a child, some I remember but most I don’t, this one however, left an impression that endures to this day.
Such a simple story of a man trying desperately to make his way in an oftentimes cruel world but still manages to find some piece and beauty in the simple things.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. 0:30
I saw that at the theater in my hometown in 73ish, I can now put the DVD in, and it still brings back memories and feelings of a 10-year-old small-town boy. 👍✌
So glad you are finally getting to this great western. So many more await.
A Mexican-American War veteran, Johnson (Redford) heads to the mountains to live in isolation. Woefully unequipped for the task at hand, his fortunate to come across a seasoned mountain man Chris (Geer) willing to teach him the necessary survival tactics. As life continues in the mountains, he finds himself a native bride Swan (Bolton) and an adopted son Caleb (Albee). However, their peaceful existence is threatened when he incurs the ire of the Crow Indians.
Who else thinks that while she's in Canada she should have her Dad on as a guest reactor
I just found your channel, bc of Jeremiah Johnson.
It's a movie I have watched dozens of times. 🙃
Your reaction is so adorable!🙂
A good "companion movie" to J.J. is "The Mountain Men", with Charlton Heston.
It is also based on history/ a mountain man's diary.
There is a "love interest" in it, too, but it's not nearly as tender as the story between JJ and Swan.
One of my all time favorite movies. 😊Thank you, Cassie! 💕
Favorite Line - "You have done well to keep so much hair when so many's after it"
Good choice and great reaction. So many great films were made in the 70's and this is a classic American western film. I'd love to see more reactions from you to more 70's classics. Clint Eastwood's, The Outlaw Josey Wales is a good followup to this film. It has a somewhat similar tone: a man on his own, out in the wild west. 🥂
Stefan Gierasch playing Del Gue was brilliant. Del was a great side character.
Oh wow!!! I've been waiting for you to watch this movie ! This is great! One of my favorite movies of all time !!
Originally his name was "John Johnson" but he changed it after punching an officer and deserting from the Navy. Though he was also known as "Johnson the Crow killer" because it's thought he killed between 150 and 250 Crow Indians. Also known as "Johnson the Liver eater" because he was known to remove, cook and eat in a cannibalistic way the livers of some of the Crow Indians he killed. All-in-all a fascinating story.
He was known a "Liver eating Johnson". He hunted down and killed every one of the Indians who killed his family. The Crow hunted him for years. Another movie that came out about the same time was "Man in the Wilderness" it was an epic also. Good reaction. You keep surprising me.
Thank you. Was just going to comment something resembling your comment.
For another Redford film in town she should check out the 1992 film "Sneakers". Fun story and a great cast.@@skeetercoddiwomple6269
"Man in the Wilderness" was 'remade' a few years ago as "The Revenant."