• 7 years ago
Comment/review:
This clip shows the trials of Jeremiah Johnson in his journey to become a mountain man. He initially struggles to survive on his own until he meets a grizzly old mountain man(Will Greer) who teaches him the ways of the mountain. He ventures off on his own again & comes across a woman & a young boy whose family has been killed by Indians. The woman grief stricken & unable to look after the boy refuses to leave & Jeremiah reluctantly takes him on the mothers pleas. In their travels they come across Del (another mountain man) who has been robbed & buried to his neck by three Blackfoot Indians. Jeremiah agrees to help Del get his horse, gun & pelts back while the Three Blackfoot are sleeping, though Del ends up firing at the Indians & starting a gun fight, The result being they end up having to kill the three thieves. On the trail the next day Del hides the scalps of the three Blackfoot he has taken on Jeremiahs horse as a band of Indians approach. Fortunately they are a friendly Flathead tribe. They meet the chief who shows interest in the Blackfoot scalps & horses. Jeremiah immediately makes a gift of them to the Chief. Unbeknown to JJ the chief must give him a better gift or be dishonoured. He eventually offers an unwilling Jeremiah his daughter in marriage. Del lets JJ know he must except otherwise they will be slaughtered. After the ceremony Del departs & JJ, the girl & young boy travel on together. Over time the three become close & become a happy family building a cabin as a home. Life is good until a preacher & soldiers arrive on a mission to save some pilgrims stuck in the mountains with winter approaching. Jeremiah is convinced to help guide them through the mountains. They approach a sacred tribal burial site (Crow) & against JJ,s advice decide to go through it rather than make a longer detour. Jeremiah reluctantly takes them through & finds the stranded pilgrims. JJ immediately leaves by himself & gets a bad feeling returning through the burial ground. He races home to find his family slaughtered by a party of Crow warriors for his trespass on their burial ground. After grieving he tracks down those responsible & gets his vengeance. Now the Crow send one warrior at a time to find & kill him as he goes about his life. After about a dozen attempts across the years(all of which Jeremiah kills) the final warrior comes & offers peace as a mark of respect to a great warrior. Jeremiah accepts, ultimately regaining some of his former life & the peace & harmony with the wild he once had.
An excellent movie: 10/10

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Clip:Jeremiah Johnson / Music:Ceremony by Joe Satriani

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