A Jesse James review - by the James family!
So some critics love The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and some don’t. That’s pretty standard, not every movie is to every person’s tastes, after all. However, if the actual James family is giving it a positive review, I’d have to say that’s pretty impressive!
According to the review on their website, the movie is an excellent testament to the story of Jesse James’ life. This is what they said about Brad in the role of Jesse James:
“Brad Pitt has stripped away the myth. He stripped away the legend and the lore. He stripped away the western and all its gratuitous violence.
What he left us with is the man himself, Jesse James.
For anyone who wants to meet Jesse James on a personal level, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is the Jesse James movie to see.
Well, goodness. If Jesse James’ own descendents are standing behind this film, then I’d say that’s inspiration enough for people to check it out!
I am really very eager to see the movie!
(Thanks to reader dapyro for the link)
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6 opinions for A Jesse James review - by the James family!
Mary Ann
Sep 24, 2007 at 4:55 pm
What a great feeling Brad will have when he hears that the family approves. I believe that will mean a lot to him. I hope this movie does well in the movie theaters. I would love to see him nominated for an Oscar. The older Brad gets the more appealing I feel he is. I believe that he is truly more happy now than he has been in the past. Love and family looks good on him.
lori
Sep 24, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Well Bravo!!!!!!
mercedes
Sep 25, 2007 at 5:55 am
I feel very good for Brad because it is nice for everyone to see that their efforts are being recognized. However, I never read the critics: I think that critics are very pretentious, arrogants, and what’s more: they are like literary critics: most of the time they are frustrated because thay aren’t good enough to write novels or do films themselves and when a former critic does a film himself, it is usually very bad.
The fact of liking or not a film, like in any other artistic disciplines, is very subjective, so I think that the best way of judging a film is by actually watching it.
so instead of asking for other people’s opinions, I think that we should watch the film ourselves.
naty
Sep 26, 2007 at 4:36 am
I FEEL GOOD FOR BRAD its because he wok so hard and hes a good actor hopingHIS MOVIE WILL BE NOMINATED in academy awards next year. we should watch this films!
Robert C. James
Oct 8, 2007 at 9:56 pm
I am a Great Grandson of Jesse Woodson James and have written the movie screenplay of THE SECOND LEGEND OF JESSE WOODSON JAMES (c) 1993. The REAL Jesse lived to be 107 years age. He was still alive when I was born in 1951.
The cover up by the James family was that Robert Ford killed Charlie Bigelow, and not Jesse James.
I believe Brad Pitt as Jesse James will not portray the character of the “hardened veteran” of the civil war and one of Quantrill’s guerrillas whom the REAL Jesse was. His close knit family life was full of strife and tension because he was a “Wanted Man, Dead or Alive!” After his freedom from his supposed death, he even sang at his own funeral.
He was a desperado and traveled as far as Argentina, South America. He had over seventy five aliases he used during the 72 following years of his life. I beleive that another actor other than Brat Pitt would have depicted the character of Jesse W. James not to be a rating of R, but a XXX.
Perhaps, not only are there two versions right now, and IF I may suggest, there should be a third version, which would be my TRUE movie screenplay of THE SECOND LEGEND OF JESSE WOODSON JAMES (c) 1993, as a sequell wherein Brad Pitt would act as a 107 year old Jesse W James.
robertcjames7@aol.com
Eric
Mar 9, 2008 at 8:10 am
Neither the James family, nor the James Preservation Trust, endorses the the screenplay “The Second Legend of Jesse Woodson James.” Its author, Robert C. Jamaes, is not a relation to the historic America icon Jesse Woodson James.
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