Films/DVD Asylum

R.I.P. Tom Laughlin - aka Billy Jack

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Loved this movie when I was a kid ... The character Billy Jack just seemed so cool to me back when I was 12 years old. Watching the movie some years latter (after the idealism of youth faded) it just seemed kind of hokey.
Hard to believe that Tom Laughlin was 82 years old.
Requiescat in pace

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
--Zen Proverb

Tribute to Tom Laughlin (Open in New Window)

Edits: 12/15/13

Follow Ups:

I remember it.... - grantv 11:27:10 12/16/13 (1)
Also liked it. Thought it very cool at the time. Mind you I also watched some Chuck Norris movies around the same time. :)
Billy Jack.
- RE: I remember it.... - mark.korda@myfairpoint.net 20:09:38 12/17/13 (0)
  Hi, Billy Jack came out in 1971 when I was entering the 9th grade.It kind of got me interested in the martial arts. Kung Fu,David Carridine,then Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee 1974.Barring the martial arts,what makes that movie unique is the (Freedom School) giving you a perspective of hippie communes. Billy Jack was a movie of the times,I don't think younger kids would get it,they would say!Gramps,we want to watch Destroyers...Mark Korda.....God Bless Tom L.
"I'm going to put my foot on the side of your face and you can do nothing about it" - PhilJ 04:37:46 12/16/13 (3)
for sure hokey but I enjoyed it too back then

RIP
- In the rather fucked up hippie world, it made sense to be extremely violent while professing peace and love. n - tinear 13:50:09 12/20/13 (2)
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  - RE: In the rather fucked up hippie world, it made sense to be extremely violent while professing peace and love. n - Condorsat 13:59:01 12/20/13 (1)
    That point was actually covered in one of Laughlin's latter films (trial of Billy Jack I believe). As I recall ... a hippie girl was vandalizing a car or something ... Billy Jack tired to stop her (saying it was not the way to solve problems) ... she said "why not, that's what you do".
    As stated in an earlier post ... I liked the movie Billy Jack in my youth. Over many years the movie did not age well ... it was a product (time capsule) of it's time. I probably disagreed with Mr Laughlin's point of view on things 80% of the time. But I always thought he spoke to what he thought was right and never backed down.
    It took him 17 years to obtain the financing to make the movie Billy Jack. He was turned down by everybody in Hollywood ... he & his wife were the only ones who believed in the project. The movie was made in 71 and still had to sue the movie companies to get it released in 1973 ... I give him credit for never giving up on his dream.
    He had some interesting (bizarre) points of view for sure. I will miss his passion.
    
    If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
    --Zen Proverb
    
    Edits: 12/20/13
    - Hey, I liked the films, ikn their day. I also liked Easy Rider. Man, have those films aged, and not - tinear 11:16:43 12/23/13 (0)
      kindly.

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