This, Frenchy, is to All of Us as well. Though it Happens to be Addressed to you, here in this Thread. I Caution that it will be one of my Longish Ones. I'm Sorry that it's Turned Out to be so.
But on the Topic of Favorite Outdoor and Survival Movies!, What would some of our Favorite Outdoor and Survival Movies be!? What is Special, Beloved, or Inspiring to you?! Or perhaps just Plain Enjoyable?! Disaster, Rescue, and Escape and Such!, can Qualify as Well! So Do Westerns!
I Know that Dorgy Zombie ones Aren't Exactly One of mine! But if any Number of you Enjoy that, -Fine!
There's Jeremiah Johnson Ones and Everything Else!
Alas, Many of These just Don't Readily Come to Mind. I Do Have one of those Big Leonard Maltin paperback Movie Guides, from back around 1987 or so. But Alas!, I Think it may be over in Storage! There or Here, I'll Try to Soon Find it. And then begin Getting Together a More Complete and Comprehensive List of my Own Favorites / Some of the Greatest Ones Around! And Post Back Further with Such!
I Can, however, Say that my Very Favorite One, Both, (actually "Throth"), of Survival-Outdoors / Westerns / and of All Movies of All Time!, is "True Grit"!!! (Though "Apollo 13" has Come to Occupy a Co-Number One Place there! -See a Similar Favorite Movies Post as I shall soon Post under "Space Resolve")
Yes it's True Grit!, with of course John Wayne as Marshall Rooster Cogburn!, Glen Campbell as his Sidekick Texas Ranger Lawman La Bouef, and the Strong and Central Supporting Role of Kim Darby, Playing Good Ole Mattie Ross! Of course there's also Guys like Lawyer Dagget, Lucky Ned Pepper, the Chinaman Chen Lee, and "That was Not my Meaning!" Tom Cheyney! And Oh Yes!, his Cat, -"General Price". And Mattie's Beloved Horse "Little Blackie"!
There's Something Distinctly Special and Great!, about John Wayne!, and John Wayne Westerns / and his Movies in General!
He is an Acquired Taste with me!, or rather, an Uncovered, Once Under Surface One,-with me! For Much of my Life, I Reacted, -"John Wayne?,-So!", or "John Wayne?,-So What?!" But Once you Get to Know John Wayne!, and What He's All About!!!,....!
He, However,-is Only a Part of What I Find so Great and Special in this Movie!, -1969's True Grit! -As Great, Special, and Central a Part as he and his Rooster Character Plays!
True Grit is so Great, Special, and Spando an Outdoors and Western Movie All Around! Just Look at some of that Spectacular, Spandiferous!, Western Scenery Thruout!, to Name Just One!!! Magnificent Golden Aspens just Being a Sub-One of Those!
The Movie so Self Evidently Speaks for Itself!, in This and so Many Other Great, Special, and Spando of Ways! Outdoors and Otherwise!
Foremost of These, is What can Loosely be "Described",-as it's Overall, Central Spirit!
And the Story Itself, Rooster Himself, the Spandiferously Great American West!, the Great Western Outdoors!, the Added Specialness of Two Very Special People to me, namely John Wayne and Glen Campbell!, Glen's Very Nice and Special Song of mine, from the Movie, also Going by the Title "True Grit", the Movie's being from a Very Special Year of mine, 1969! (My Personal "Golden" or "Classical Age", High Time, Star at Zenith!, Etc!) -And so Much More!, as True Grit Goes!
But True Grit would be Just as Great and Special to me! Even Without the Additional Great Specialness of Things like John Wayne Himself, Glen Cambell, with his So Nice and Great Song "True Grit", or of it's being Of and From 69! Let Alone with These!
True Grit, along with the Much Later Co-Placeing Apollo 13, has Always Been Hands Down!,-my Very Favorite Movie of All Time! Of Survival-Outdoor Movies, Of Westerns, Of All Movies!
You can Just Feel!, the Urgency and Drama!, -in Scenes like when Mattie Ross is Trapped Down in the Snake Pit! To Again mention Just One! True Grit is by Far, the Favorite Oudoor, Survival, and Western One of Mine! Indeed, once again, -of All Movies!
Now to Tie Up a Few Loose Ends on This.
The Movie Comes with a Great Soundtrack Album as Well, -Featureing Glen's Great Title Track Song, -True Grit! Elmer Bernstein Conducts these Great, Moving, Western Themes so!
Glen's also had another Movie and Song by the Name of Norwood, Out at about the Same Time. "Ole Norwood's Coming Home!" Joe Namath also Appeared in This.
The Song Itself, True Grit now, was a Household "Word"!, Back in that Time! An Old, Warm Friend! It's within my Top 10 Most Special Songs!, of All Time! It Very Warmly, Smoothly, and Inspiringly Speaks of Mattie's Noble and Determined Quest! To Single Mindedly and Relentlessly Find the One who Killed her Father.
"-And so you Look Around to Find!, Someone Who's Kind!, Someone Who is Fearless like you!.....,The Pain of It, Will Ease a Bit!, When you Find a Man with True Grit!....,The Sadness Will Leave your Eyes!.....,You'll Wake Up and See!, a World that is Fine and Free!.....,Though Summer Seems Far!, Away!, -You'll Find the Sun! (And Here I Add a Quick and Determined "Yes you Will!",-of my Own), -One Day!" It Sensitively Speaks of Her Noble, if at Times Obstinately Bullheaded, (Far from Always a Bad Thing!), Quest So!
It's of Such a Smooth, Warm, Mellow, Easy Flowing, Upward yet Realistic Looking, Western Spirit and Flavor!
As Also is Glen's Other Great Song and Album, "Galveston"! -My Favorite Song and Album of All Time!, Bar None! Glen is incidentally my Favorite Musician / Artist of All!, as well! Other Great Songs of His, such as Wichita Lineman, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, and Gentle on my Mind, -are also Such Spando Standouts in This Way!, as Well!
As Quickly and Basically as Possible, I'll List some of my Others! Caution, the List is Longish, but then again he Did Have a Lot of Very Quality Songs! As Extensive as it is, I Do Not mention them All.
So Some of my Other Topmost Favorites of His would be;-Everything a Man Could Ever Need!, Without Her!, Oh What a Woman!, Try a Little Kindness, Dreams of the Everyday Housewife, Honey Come Back, Sunny Day Girl!, Sunflower!, Until it's Time for you to Go, If You Go Away as I Know You Must!, Friends, Where's the Playground Susie?!, I Wanna Live!, Houston I'm a Comin to See You!, Honestly Loved, I Love my Truck!, Ole Norwood's Coming Home!, Country Girl!, For My Woman's Love!, Where Do you Go When You Come to the End of the Line!?,Back in the Race! Cold December in your Heart!, And the World Keeps on Spinning!, The World I Used to Know!, Just Another Piece of Paper!, Dream Sweet Dreams About me!, Dream Baby How Long Must I Dream!?, Mary in the Morning, Arkansas!, Less of me!, A Lady Like You!, Freeborn Man!, She Understands me!, Today is Mine!, Unconditional Love!, If This is Love-Who Needs It!?, Take my Hand for Awhile!, Southern Nights!, Folk Singer, Hey Little One!, As Far as I'm Concerned!, Ah But I'd Mayswell Try and Catch the Wind!, Today While the Blossoms Still Cling to the Vine!, Gotta Have Tenderness!, Time Where Did you Go!?, Private John Q, Little Toy Trains, Little Alter Boy, and His Great Duet with Bobbie Gentry,-Sunday Morning!
He also Does some Absolutely Great Standout Versions of Other Artist's Famous Tunes! Such as "My Way" and "The Impossible Dream-To Reach the Unreachable Star!" (Frank Sinatra and Jack Jones). Or "He Ain't Heavy He's my Brother!" and "Where Do I Begin?! (-To Tell the Story of How Great a Love can Be!?)". (Which is by the Youngbloods and) Or "The Straight Life"! (Bobby Goldsboro)
In the Same Spirit and Way!, -He Shud Have also Done Versions of Songs like "I'm a Drifter!", (Bobby Goldsboro), "Homeward Bound", (Simon and Garfunkel), "Don't It Make you Wanna Go Home Now!?", (Joe South), "Traces of Love!", (Classics Four), "This Girl is a Woman Now!", (Gary Puckett and the Union Gap), "Happy Heart!", (Andy Williams), "Muddy Mississippi Line!" and "California Wine!", (Again, Both by Bobby Goldsboro), and Maybe "Walking in the Rain!" (By Both Jay and the Americans, and the Ronettes) But Evidently, Neither He Nor Anyone Else, Ever Thot of This!
I can perhaps Dig Out my Old List of Glen and His Music's Upstanding and Noble Qualities, Spirit, Flavor, Feel, Message, and Overall Persona!, -that I sometime a Wowl Back have Made! I'd be Very Happy To! Of What He and His Music are Really All About! But in that it's Stashed somewhere!, and Out of Respect for Overall Length considerations, -I'll Refrain from Such now. But They are There!, and I'd be Glad to Come Back and Share Them sometime!
Another Song of Glen's, that has been of Some Note, is his "I Knew Jesus Before He was a Superstar!" Which Came out around 70 or 71's Movie of somewhat the Same Name.
Likewise, It can Very Well be Pulled Out of the Vault or Archives Today!, and Apply to Today's Current Overdone, Over Raved Over Movie!, Along the Same Lines and Theme. It's Precisely Out of my Personal Respect and Reverence, that I Think People shud Really Cool It!, with that!
Also, in Such Close In Post September 11th Times as These! -We Shud be Far More Prudent and Careful!, of "Rubbing various Religious Sores", around the World! The President and Billy Graham were Careful about Not using the Word "Crusade"! We Shud be Likewise just as Careful and Mindful here! I Wonder if Many Have Thought of That!, that Way?!
Both Such Prudent Care there! And Glen could now again Very Well Say!, -"I Knew Jesus!,-*Before* He was a Superstar!"
I've Heard that there is a Blooper in the Movie True Grit! That someone had Left a Coke Can on a Fencepost. I've since Looked for it!, in several Reviewings, but as of yet have been Unable to Spot it!
The So Great!, Special and Spando!, American West! As another Song I Grew Up With says, -"There's a Feeling I Get!, -When I Look to the West!"....And also the Famous Phrase, -"Go West Young Man!"
Beyond just the West, though! (Which is Certainly A Great Placeing Part of Outdoor, Survival, and Such Movies as a Whole!), -What may be Some of your Great and Special Outdoor and Survival Movies?!
I've just Fondly Given my Own Very Topmost Ranking One!
I Doubtless also Have Others! But They're just Going to Have to Wait until I Dig Thru that Book! I Aim to Get Back to us on That! I Don't Beleive it will be as Long as this one. I am Sorry for another Somewhat Long One here!
Doubtless some of you Have Your's as Well! What Might they Be?! How Enjoyable? How Special? How Inspiring?! What Might have you Learned from Such? How is It a Part of your Overall Life and Experience?
Take your Times and Relay Them as They Come!, if you Wish. There is No Undue Rush!
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Edited by ScottRezaLogan (03/24/04 06:09 PM)
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