Megan's Thoughts on Young Guns II

[leia131]

-I don't usually like westerns, cause I usually find them hopelessly boring, but this one is very good. 

-Though I'm not going to lie, I started watching it because Emilio Estevez and Christian Slater are both very attractive. And young Kiefer Sutherland isn't exactly ugly. There's also Grisolm from CSI and Viggo Mortensen. In fact, the sheer number of recognizable people in this movie is astonishing.

-I also looked up the real Billy the Kid, and, of course, he wasn't nearly as cool as movies and fables make him out to be. Though he was kind of awesome. But I'm watching this movie, and I'm wondering, what is our fascination with ourlaws? Like, they've made so many movies about these guys, and they were not nice guys in real life, but they're just so cool! I think it's the fact that everyone longs to just say "Fuck you" to the world, jump on a horse, grab a gun, and ride off to the next town. Want something? Take it. You get to hang out with whores and indians and Mexicans and all the cool people. And in the movies they make them invincible. Usually. There's nothing they can't do, and they never get shot until it will move the plot forward. Even though the real Billy the Kid died at 21, I guarntee you Emilio Estevez isn't going to.

-Although, going out in a blaze of glory and bullets is kind of an awesome way to die.

-So, the indian and Christian Slater get in a knife fight (because men are idiots) and CS put his very very large knife all the way through the indian's arm. And he didn't even flinch. Then, after the fight, he looks at CS, calm as can be, and says, "You want your knife back?" It was AMAZING. In fact, I have just decided that the indian is my favorite character. Wish I knew his name. 

Indian Guy: *shouts something not in English*
Horses: *run full tilt down an almost vertical cliff*
Christian Slater: *safely, at bottom of cliff* How'd you get them to do that? What's that word mean?
Indian Guy: It's an ancient Navajo word. It means stop.

- Alan Ruck would be my last choice for someone to play a cowboy. Especially an outlaw.

-I want to be the kind of woman who can ride out of town completely naked on a horse.

Comments

[spazenport.livejournal.com]

Young Guns and Young Guns 2 are awesome westerns, I love them. But I love most westerns.

[leia131.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed it, though I wish so many of them hadn't died.

I want to see the first one now.

[spazenport.livejournal.com]

Historical fact. The second young guns was based off of the fact that a man (around 1910) came up to a judge and said "I'm Billy the Kid." They laughed at him until he told things that only Billy the Kid would have known. A man interviewed him, decided he was the real deal, and wrote an article to be published. They laughed the article out of the newspaper. To this day, we still don't know. It's generally accepted that he died. But let's think about it. A best friend of his, from the past, shot him. Everyone idolized him. And faking your own death was easy back then, everyone was doing it. I'm not saying the old man was really him, but I am saying that discounting him would be foolish. Just some food for thought. The old man confessed because he was too old to care what happened to him and said he wanted a clean conscience so he could at least look St. Peter in the eye.
Neato!
--matt

[leia131.livejournal.com]

I did actually know that, but only cause I looked up Billy the Kid after watching the movie. :)