New Billy Jack film (Anti-Bush, Anti-War): "Billy Jack's Moral Revolution"

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http://www.billyjack.com/index.php?menuID=Page&pid=70

In Billy Jack’s Moral Revolution, Billy Jack and Jean are recruited by mainstream Americans, Moderate Republicans, Democrats and Independents who hate both Parties and believe Congress has become so systemically corrupt it can’t possibly represent the people any more, to form a new mainstream – not fringe – 3rd Party, with exciting reforms to give real power back to the people (see 3rd Party enclosure). Throughout the film Billy Jack and Jean are under a horrendous siege in their struggle to try to save the heart and soul of America–and Its Constitution--before it’s too late.

Billy Jack is under siege from Three Extremist Groups that Control the President and the Government: Corporate Oligarchy, the Neo-Cons, and the False Evangelicals.

… and one of the elements that makes this film so unusual is the interaction between real people and fictional characters

In the film, the President is controlled by 3 groups that form the most dangerous White House clique in American history -- 3 fanatic Groups who are either thoroughly corrupt, seriously disturbed, or delusional men and women who have created – and continue to create – through the most massive and complex machination of lies – a constant environment of fear, repression of all criticism and dissent, and propaganda to manipulate Americans into continuing to support the Iraq war.



What makes this film so unusual for a feature film is that unlike other feature films where the characters are all given fictional names, and the other Party is referred to as the “Loyal Opposition,” in this film we’ll show real players, and use their real names – Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Libby, DeLay, etc. - and deal with real issues and people of deceit and corruption destroying Americans today, not fictional ones.

Under the control of these three groups, the President has created a soaring, out-of-control increase in the worldwide hatred of America and an equally soaring recruitment of insurgents and terrorists at a time nuclear weapons will soon be available in suitcases and pickup trucks. In the film we see clearly from Pentagon and CIA experts who are not allowed to speak today that the reason North Korea and Iran, among others, were given the green light to develop nuclear weapons pushing us towards another nuclear catastrophe is because of Bush and Cheney’s delusions, incompetence and corruption which chose to invade Iraq for Its oil instead of focusing all our resources on bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and by spreading our troops so thin there is little we can do if one million North Koreans invade South Korea, or if Iran and Hamas team up in Iraq. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld’s delusions and incompetence have stripped us of our military power leaving us only our nuclear weapons.

The film shows clearly Bush is the cause of the escalating danger of terrorism – and the least equipped man to protect us from terrorists.

[rucky]

1. Billy Jack is Back!

My father-in-law gave me the original tapes as a gift a couple of years ago.

Bring back the ass-kicking hippie cowboy!

[shadowknows69]

3. Ass kicking hippie American Indian IIRC

n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. Why don't his kind go back where they came from?

Oh, wait....

[shadowknows69]

2. I would watch this

Is the original Billy coming back for it? Screw it, Stalone at past 50 did another Rocky and has another Rambo on the way. I'd rather see Billy than Rambo. It would be groovier.

[blitzen]

4. yeah, it's from the original guy's website...he seems to be the brains behind it

[IChing]

14. Me too, the orginal was a cult film in my time.

Cult films are made by the audience and I think I saw the original about 6 times in different places when it came out.



How are you feeling by the way?

[H2O Man]

5. Good.

I have the boxed set of the four previous Billy Jack movies. I think he has a good message.

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6. I'm gonna take my left foot, and kick you right here...

I gotta see this:

How can a live Billy Jack Debate George Bush?

Think of Forrest Gump whereby Forrest appears on screen and talks with John Kennedy, and then imagine Billy Jack debating with George Bush, and you’ll get a hint of how unique this film will be.

[shadowknows69]

9. A really good digital artist

could make Billy kick Bushie right in the schnozz. Instant academy award.

[lectrobyte]

12. Yes indeed. I got the quote wrong, but close enough...

Billy Jack: I'm gonna take this right foot, and I'm gonna whop you on that side of your face...
<points to Posner's right cheek>
Billy Jack: and you wanna know something? There's not a damn thing you're gonna be able to do about it.
Mr. Posner: Really?
Billy Jack: Really.
<kicks Posner's right cheek, sending him to the ground>

[deutsey]

7. I loved Billy Jack when I was a kid; I saw the original recently on DVD

and was embarrassed by it. What a difference a couple decades make, eh? :evilgrin:

It was a huge hit back in the early '70s when I saw it a number of times at a California drive-in with my family. My parents were young working-class folks who weren't hippies, but were sympathetic to the prevailing countercultural values of the era.

Looking back on its success, I wonder if the film appealed to so many people at the time who identified with the hippie kids and pacifists at the school, but who also had a lot of pent-up frustration over non-violent protest and secretly enjoyed seeing Billy beat the shit out of redneck bigots.

[deutsey]

8. BTW: I'm taking karate now based in part on my desire to be like

Billy Jack when I was a kid. :-)

[shadowknows69]

11. I almost started it because Chuck Norris and Billy

read a lot about it while I was smoking pot and getting fat lol. I could name almost every move or style a martial artist could kick my ass with.

[blitzen]

10. a lot of 70s movies seem kinda lame now....

my wife and I watched "Deliverance" on the tube the other night--while it was good, we were thinking that I could neveer be a hit today because, by current standards, its rather tame and uneventful.

I remember thinking Shaft was great and then watching it a few years ago and thinking that it sucked. A lot of it has to do with movie technology and the way it can change our expectations.

[deutsey]

20. I agree. The same thing happened with me and "One Flew Over

the Cuckoo's Nest."

I LOVED that movie when I saw it in the late '70s on TV. I saw it a couple years ago and thought it was ploddingly slow. I think it's because edits are so much more rapid in contemporary movies that the long takes of older movies seem reeeallllly sllllllow. I think it says more about us than the movies themselves, huh? :hi:

[drm604]

13. Somehow I never saw the original,

but it obviously had an impact on a lot of people. Hopefully this one will also have an impact. No doubt the sound machine will be gearing up to attack it.

[loudsue]

16. Like an Inconvenient Truth and Fahrenheit 9/11, it will prolly be kept out of mainstream theaters.

You have to remember that the "ownership class" owns all of our media outlets, including the big theaters. I'll be real surprised if it gets shown...except in the smaller, independent theaters.

:kick:

[drm604]

21. I saw both of those movies in mainstream theaters

and they were packed with people.

[walldude]

23. Yup.. I saw F 9/11 at my regular theater after waiting in line

for an hour.

As far as the Billy Jack movie, I do have to warn people that over the course of the last few years Tom Laughlin and Delores Taylor have been announcing new Billy Jack movies frequently. I have gotten my hopes up a couple times and nothing has come of it so I'm not holding my breath.

[H2O Man]

18. The original

was "Born Losers." It plays on Showtime fairly often. It was not particularly good. The second one was "Billy Jack"; it got the most play. The third was "Trial of Billy Jack"; it set a few records upon release, but then kind of disappeared. The last was "Billy Jack Goes to Washington"; it may have had a sincere goal, but seemed a tad self-indulgent.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. The Trial of Billy Jack -- 1974

I remember waiting on line on a Friday night for two hours to get into that movie. And when you got to the ticket office, the price for admission had jumped to $4.00! (Usual price was $2.50 or $3.00 at that time). It was so worth it! I was freaked out about the scene where the cops or the military just shot up the Freedom School, killing the little boy with one arm who just learned to play "I Saw Three Ships" on the guitar.

Billy Jack was controversial and I'm glad he hasn't changed at all.

[kineneb]

19. One Tin Soldier - lyrics

I think I still have the 45 record from the 70s.

"One Tin Soldier (The Legend Of Billy Jack)"

(As recorded by Coven)
DENNIS LAMBERT
BRIAN POTTER

Listen children to a story that was written long ago
'Bout a kingdom on a mountain and the valley folk below
On the mountain was a treasure buried deep beneath a stone
And the valley people swore they'd have it for their very own.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after, one tin soldier rides away.

So the people of the valley sent a message up the hill
Asking for the buried treasure, tons of gold for which they'd kill
Came an answer from the kingdom "With our brothers we will share,
All the secrets of our mountain, all the riches buried there."

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after, one tin soldier rides away.

Now the valley cried with anger, mount your horses, draw your sword
And they killed the mountain people so they won their just reward
Now they stood beside the treasure on the mountain, dark and red
Turned the stone and looked beneath it "Peace on earth" was all it said.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgement day
On the bloody morning after, one tin soldier rides away.

[blues90]

22. I saw the original way back then .

It caused my divorce since my Ex felt he should have been jailed forever .

What bothers me is everything comes back as some sort of remake , can't anyone come up with something original including music these days .

It just ruins the past for me when the best movies were the originals and not remakes or spin off's of days gone by .