I have seen this movie a1000 times and know every line by heat. I hunted and traped and fished for 53 years of my life. It's not for the animals or the fish i have taken but the places i have seen and all the adventures i have been on that few people never get to see. Mother q never raised such a foolish child.
Although obviously highly romanticized, the events depicted in this film are basically true. Johnson, Del Gue and his Flathead wife Swan were all real people. Johnson was, so I have read, was actually a deserter from the US Navy. He lived in the mountains for about 20 years. After that he returned to civilization where he served with distinction in the Union Army during the Civil War. As I recall he is credited with killing about 300 Crow warriors.
Seek this film out. Watch it alone. Schedule in some time after the film is done to go for a walk outside. Allow yourself to be open to the film and the messages it has. Look for the deeper meaning of Johnson trying to go it alone, then meeting a mentor and learning the ways. Seek this film out and watch it alone, quietly with time to think about it after.
"Machines are gonna fail, then the system is gonna fail, then............then survival". "Who has the ability to survive". Burt Reynolds: Deliverance (1972).
I saw this when it came out with my father. I would go in the woods behind our house and pretend to be Johnson. My .50 Hawkin gun was my Crosman 761 pellet rifle. I still have the rifle and it still works. They don't make movie like this anymore.
My father is almost 90 and I will be 49 in two months.
When life is stressing me out and I'm feeling kinda low, i often think of packing it all in and living out in the wilderness like Jeremiah Johnson. But the other day it was snowing heavy outside and i thought to myself...maybe not! :)
this is my #1 fav movie ever i want to go to the mountains and live myself one day so i can get away from all society,my faveite part is when he starts buiding his cabin with the indian girl[swan] and his new son [caleb].
He's had enough off the "flatland" life so he heads to the mountains to try find peace within- it's beautiful in it's simplicity, although the last half hour is over the top, it is necessary. Amazing scenery.
What a film! It’s the impression left by such graceful and eloquent filmmaking that makes J. Johnson an unforgettable film. J.Johnson is a simple story about a man's struggle to survive. Despite anachronisms, a few factual & geographic errors, this film is great and unique in its emotional intensity. Not much dialogue but just enough to be carried away by this touching movie. The silences are so expressive, they speak for themselves without any word. R.R is excellent as well as the other actors.
BEAR ,I saw this movie when it 1st came out in the drive -in Those were the days when they made good movies Now a days they have to do remakes and they suck raw eggs
@jennluvsnkotb74 You clearly haven't bothered to scroll back and look at any of the previous posts. The movie is based on the book "CROW KILLER, The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson". (Indiana Press) ISBN 0-253-20312-0. His real name was John Johnson. Six foot two and 250 lb of mountain man who in the mid to late 1800s declared a personal war on the Crow Indian Nation (or should I say they on him) and was reputed to have killed 300 of their warriors.
@nightwing1409 You welcome, it is a mot excellent book, much fiction and little history but it is good nonetheless. I don't know if it is still in print or not I baought it back in 1973. It is a very account , it seems, of living in the wilderness if nothing else
Sorry, I got carried away in my typing. I ment to say give me THEN over now anyday!!!!!!!! Like some others have stated, I believe that i was born years and decades too late. I know things were much rougher then, but I live in and for the outdoors. Once again, i ment to say Give me Then over now
Thanks for the post!! Love this movie!! I spent some time in the Upper Green area of Wyoming. Each year they hold Rendezvous Days each summer as the mountian men (Jim Bridger)and indians did on the Green years ago. I love it out there and hope to live out there again. However, this movie was filmed in Idaho BTW, liked the comment about the foreign photographers and squirrels...aint that the truth. Like others said.....give me now over then ANYDAY
Hell, there are people who won't even venture out into the great outdoor today even with all the technology, imagine doing it way back then. How much we have we lost as people in our knowledge and ability to survive. If civilization ended tomorrow would you survive ?
@prigual I think it would be a brutal existence and you would have to have a real inner fortitude and be prepared to kill and eat anything if necessary and maybe fight for you life all the way. I think those already immersed in the outdoor hunter gatherer culture would be best placed to survive. Living the life style for prolonged periods would be another hurdle.
@nightwing1409 i know...im going to live in the woods once i get older...now im learning how to and how to survive but im worried about the future if there is any situation someone will have to then there likely going to die.but yeah we have lost so much methods and knowledge
@Aawsy Well, until you're ready to make the move there is plenty of material out there in the way of biographies of people who have done it and lived the life style and survival books that will provide plenty of satisfaction. I don't know what your location is or what terrain is on your back door step but even a weekend away roughing it in the bush with the most basic of provisions provides plenty of reward. You don't have to be trained to Special Forces standard to go bush for a few days.
@nightwing1409 The skills might be lost, but there's a part of the brain that's dedicated to the survivalist stuff, maybe that's why he decided to be a mountain man.
@nightwing1409 what "great outdoor"? Congress is allowing the whole planet to flood into the US for new "voters." Soon the country will be one mass suburb.
@GeekBoy03 Yep, you're right. It doesn't matter what country you're from, the world is over populated and it is getting harder to find a piece of wilderness, but it is still there and you can still find your own piece of paradise without anyone else to disturb you. I spend most weekends in the high country in the company of my rifle and my fly rod. Heaven forbid I should ever need a permit or have to pay for what is surely my birthright.
@wyattsimpson17 I'm lucky. Brought up in the outdoors and a 20 year career in the military I now live in a rural community with the mountains and lakes on my back door step. I can be in the middle of nowhere in less than an hours drive. Park, hide the truck, camp, fish, shoot. Nothing like a meal cooked in the outdoors and a night in a bivi bag under the stars waking to cast a fly on a mist covered lake. Life is good.
@RobertJamesAsmus. You're not wrong. I'm not religious (more spiritual) but for me a night in the high country, standing chest deep in a lake with a fly rod in hand, is my own personal form of Sunday church service. It insulates me against the BS I have to deal with during the rest of the week and keeps me sane.
Great to watch but just imagine; living your life moment to moment, never knowing if you were going to see the week out or going hungry because there just isn't any game through winter; having to ensure you could catch enough to eat just to stay alive, trying to stay warm and dry without the aid of Gor-tex or Polar-Fleece. Knowing that if you got sick or broke your leg that was likely to be the end of it.
@Voltaire4ever Yes I agree completely. What an experience. Even today there are still plenty of places in the world that you can do it and plenty of people willing to try, and with the gear and knowledge available in this day and age you stand an increased chance of success. Having visited there before Alaska would be my preference.
@Voltaire4ever There are the physical challenges but then there are the psychological one as well. It is acknowledged that some people just can't hack it and go mad under these circumstances. City people might as well shoot themselves. There have always been people who choose to live like this, even today, and there are still places in the world where you can do it.
I wish life could be like this nowadays. Now up where jeremiah roamed, there's freaking Asians taking pictures of squirells. I moving out to Montana now becuz of this movie
@markuswv I'd rather have them than honkeees - who fucked every indigenious culture in the world - let's just kill the white man - look what johnson and the rest of his cracker tribe turned this country into - FUBAR!!!
@jblackie47803 BEAR...but is does sound like he said bare beaver because he said its so fast I dont' think proper grammar was in there thought process
@jblackie47803 u idiot there's a common in that don't you know the English language? Best go back to school because there's a clear pause between bear and beaver, plus you misspelled "bare" its Bear!
I watched this movie over and over with my Dad. I think everyone one of us long for a simpler life. Especially this day and age. I wish they still made movies like this.
I built a log cabin by hand when I was 17 after seeing this movie when I was 12.Always felt I was born 150 years late,but I'd a probably ended up being turned into bear crap........I always preferred the quiet,too.Used to be able to recite every word of the movie.even had the soundtrack at one time.Don't know what happened to it. I just finished my third cabin,but I use power tools now........not as much fun,but easier on the back.
Great movie but probably way too slow for this generation.
Dido keymankeys, this is easily my favorite. I'm not into making top 10 lists for myself and such things - this is simply a movie that goes straight to my heart and soul in many ways.
So, a little trivia:
what statement in the movie is never spoken all at once, but only spoken in fragments throughout the movie?
ONe of the best of all time. I have seen it over 30 times. The dialogue is great "grown particular". The casting was outstanding. "Do you happen to know what month it is"? It's always fresh every time I see it. Five Stars...
Fantastic film..I saw this the first time when I was 7 and me and my brother (we grew up on a ranch and learned to hunt and such) got lost on purpose for a week to attempt to be Mountain men haha good times and amazing film
Well we stay out there for a few days till my old man tracked us down with a ranger we were living in a cave hahah we were grounded for a looong time but it was worth it
Well man back then I was really young so I barely knew anything I knew what kinds of plant life u could eat such as sage and different weeds but those will only get you soo far cause u need carbs and protiens such as fish and meats (deer, coyote, boar) Rabbit and squirel are NOT good for survival at all because they are lean meats that take more energy to skin and cook then u will ever get out of them...though I didnt know this at the time..Now days I do alot of backpacking and survival stuff
This is without peer------the greatest movie of all time. These were real men. This once great country is losing this type on a daily basis. If God allows us to start over, and begin fresh, I'd like to think I would have made my way into the mountains as well.
This is one of the great classics! Great story and beautiful photography! It ranks as my favorite film with Robert Redford! I bought my DVD copy a few years ago..love the soundtrack music! The individual who answers Johnson's question about catching 'bear, beaver and other critters' is actor Charles Tyner, from "Little House on the Prairie" fame... "Ride due West as the sun sets! Turn left at the Rocky Mountains!" Classic film dialogue!
this movie actually relaxes and calms me everytime i watch it. with all the fast pace city slicker media junk nowadays, movies like this are priceless gems!!!!!!!
Well "FinestCitizen" each to his own taste but given the little information on your profile I can understand why this material isn't to you're taste and there is a cultural gap between you and your grandfather. By the sounds of it he is a man of good taste. May be you should forget about social misfits like Michael Jackson and think a little more about the real people that made your country great like John Johnson. People that needed real skill and talent just to stay alive.
The movie was filmed entirely in Utah at the following locations - Alpine Loop, Ashley National Forest, Leeds, Snow Canyon State Park, Ivins, St. George, Sundance, Timpanogos, Uinta National Forest, Wasatch-Cache National Forest,
According the book (CROW KILLER) Johnsons story commences in 1843 when he stepped of the steamer at St. Joseph, Missouri and ends with his death in Dec.1900. at the Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles.
Highly recommended reading for the survivalist and back to nature wanabe mountain man the book is based on fact but a lot of the information is gleaned from stories and legends around the character of John Johnson. Although I read a couple of unnecessarily harsh reviews of the book, never the less it is a totally absorbing tale of an American legend and long since dead lifestyle.
Thanks for the tip, NightWing. Soemtimes it's hard differentiating tales of the Old West, fact from fiction. In the end, I wonder if it really matters?
Sometimes I go exploring for lost mines, according to legend and records, in the wilderness. Haven't found one yet, but I've never found a better way of getting off the beaten path with a purpose. ;)
@huckstered Thanks for your comments. I suffered a similar problem with "Crow Killer", which incidentally received a poor review. Although I very much enjoyed the book and was thoroughly absorbed by the story, unless such events are a mater of historical record they become a matter of conjecture open to the poetic license of the author. I suspect this is a problem faced by most authors of historic material and therefore I try not to be too critical.
@nightwing1409 History is documenatation, period. Histrical fiction is basedon history, which is a good , tongue in cheek approach. But his mountain man book by Fisher is complete fantasy drawn from a lifestyle an does not even remotely approach a factual accounting of any tale. This will be obvious to anyone of
an objective mindset that attempts to take this as serious reading. It is a fantasy
like star wars or avatar. Entertainment and nothing else. John Wayne run amuck
If you love the movie try the book it was based on. CROW KILLER The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson. (Indiana Press) ISBN 0-253-20312-0. His real name was John Johnson. Six foot two and 250 lb of mountain man who in the mid 1800s declared a personal war on the Crow Indian Nation (or should I say them on him) he was reputed to have killed 300 of their warriors. YOU WILL LOVE THE BOOK, I PROMISE.
Easily my favorite movie of all time, even with the sometimes stilted Redford performance. But hey ... he was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none.
One of my favorite Robert Redford films!!! Such an emotional film. I loved everything about it. I loved the sad music by Tim McIntire who starred in American Hot Wax in 1978 and died of congestive heart failure due to drugs in 1984. John Milius also helped write the screenplay. Great direction by Pollack who also died not too long ago. I just loved how the film tracked his progress from situation to situation and how he grew more experienced with time and still wanted to remain alone. Great!
I thought the movie was awesome and I'll never forget it. There is a flaw. I'm sorry to say this... but wasn't it kinda, you know, long? The movie should have ended when him and the skinhead were parting ways with that giant mountain in the backdrop. But noooo, they have to go on for another hour with Johnson killing indians and having useless conversations with people. The whole last hour should have been cut. Other than that, great film.
M&M, I agree. I love the concept of the movie - a man with personal issues, torn by war, seeking a new path of independence - but it stopped being enjoyable for me when he hooked up with those soldiers and his family was killed. My only fav point after that was when he and Del Gue parted ways.
@methodandmadness yeah man i saw this and i loved it i mean i dream is to live in the mountains...and i will but the story got boring after the boy and the indian girl died i didnt like the ending either
@Aawsy I bought a very nice Cold Steel fighting tomahawk (a rare find in my country) two weeks ago and have been motivated to re-read "Crow Killer" (if you can follow logic). As is always the case a book usually allows you to exercise much more imagination than a film.
I am sure if one of your friends leaves your acquaintance your life doesn't suddenly end....the story is supposed to be about the guy's life...the last wasted half hour is about how he has finally been accepted by the Indians and is a vindication of his decision to go into the mountains. Last half hour is the best.
this movie gets me fired up to go hunting and fishing its comming on amc saturday night at 8pm too even though i got it on vhs and dvd il still watch it.
There are few movies, especially from the 70's and into today that can compare with Jeremiah Johnson. Especially if you fancy life in the western era, or something to Native American culture. The movie is priceless. Then and now still. I just wish there were more like it.
I am watching the movie tonight. 1001
818981 1 week ago
I have seen this movie a1000 times and know every line by heat. I hunted and traped and fished for 53 years of my life. It's not for the animals or the fish i have taken but the places i have seen and all the adventures i have been on that few people never get to see. Mother q never raised such a foolish child.
818981 1 week ago
Although obviously highly romanticized, the events depicted in this film are basically true. Johnson, Del Gue and his Flathead wife Swan were all real people. Johnson was, so I have read, was actually a deserter from the US Navy. He lived in the mountains for about 20 years. After that he returned to civilization where he served with distinction in the Union Army during the Civil War. As I recall he is credited with killing about 300 Crow warriors.
curlybobz 1 week ago
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BankruptMonopoly 2 weeks ago
If a man needs permission to grieve after a death or that no good lady left him,, this is a good movie, to do the trick
JazzKeyboardist1 2 weeks ago
I was born and raised in the woods still live in the woods there about ten feet from my house middle of the woods what could be better
Warcraft650 5 months ago
@Warcraft650 I envy you. I love woods. Greetings from Spain.
lekunberriko1 3 months ago
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camolegand 6 months ago
Who's the narrator? The narration itself placed a lot of meaning in this scene
ElectroLua 6 months ago
ha I just saw the guy who gave directions on law & order,,
yukiyama87 7 months ago
whats the song called? I LOVE IT!
acutefluffybeaver 7 months ago
@acutefluffybeaver th eballad of jeremiah johnson
thtsritesun1212 7 months ago
@acutefluffybeaver. "The Ballad of a Mountain Man" Song by Tim McIntire
nightwing1409 7 months ago
Seek this film out. Watch it alone. Schedule in some time after the film is done to go for a walk outside. Allow yourself to be open to the film and the messages it has. Look for the deeper meaning of Johnson trying to go it alone, then meeting a mentor and learning the ways. Seek this film out and watch it alone, quietly with time to think about it after.
fahnke 8 months ago
Wow. Talk about going back in time. The pioneers were tough and hard.
No light bulbs, not even a clock radio. Yet they survived, and grew.
seeingthesigns 8 months ago
"Machines are gonna fail, then the system is gonna fail, then............then survival". "Who has the ability to survive". Burt Reynolds: Deliverance (1972).
nightwing1409 9 months ago
I saw this when it came out with my father. I would go in the woods behind our house and pretend to be Johnson. My .50 Hawkin gun was my Crosman 761 pellet rifle. I still have the rifle and it still works. They don't make movie like this anymore.
My father is almost 90 and I will be 49 in two months.
hotfish2101x 9 months ago 3
@hotfish2101x I agree we are about the same I turned 49 in August. One of my all time favorite movies. I played a mountain man as a kid too.
texasleprechaun 1 week ago
Never mind, the Judith River is in Montana.
banner1835 10 months ago
Where is the Judith?
banner1835 10 months ago
if you watch the special features you can tell its a dummy...
esoxkid06 11 months ago
I was alway's wondering if that frozen guy,,,, with the Hawken Rifle,
hatchet jack was a dummy made up?
or a real guy with makeup on?
I was alway's looking to see if he flinched an eye,
or made some slight movement?
Mann when He fired that .50 cal Hawken?
what a blast,
kirkconway 1 year ago
I love that show and I'm 14 lol
TheGlowFox 1 year ago
LOVE THIS MOVIE IM 13 AND I TROMP ALL THROUH THE WOODS WITH MY HENRY RIFLE ACTING LIKE JERAMIAH.
COUNTRYBOB12341 1 year ago
When life is stressing me out and I'm feeling kinda low, i often think of packing it all in and living out in the wilderness like Jeremiah Johnson. But the other day it was snowing heavy outside and i thought to myself...maybe not! :)
broderD1 1 year ago
Lol, "Turn left at the rocky mountains"
joshonator12 1 year ago
Great Movie ! Oustanding actually ! :)
breffnipark 1 year ago
i want to leave the city and eat what i kill and such.bare,beaver
marsJOHNYmars 1 year ago
Is the man portraying the trader the same actor that is the unscrupulous trader in Josey Wales?
kit40 1 year ago
@kit40 Correct: Charles Tyner. He has a long list of impressive credits to his name.
nightwing1409 1 year ago
this is my #1 fav movie ever i want to go to the mountains and live myself one day so i can get away from all society,my faveite part is when he starts buiding his cabin with the indian girl[swan] and his new son [caleb].
matmat187 1 year ago
Ride due West as the sun sets. Turn left at the Rocky Mountains.
steelhooves90 1 year ago
bear, beaver AND OTHER CRITTERS not bare beaver lol
coolhandluke170 1 year ago
@coolhandluke170 ;-0
irish89055 1 year ago
one of the finest movies ever produced
coolhandluke170 1 year ago
He's had enough off the "flatland" life so he heads to the mountains to try find peace within- it's beautiful in it's simplicity, although the last half hour is over the top, it is necessary. Amazing scenery.
julesbrownz 1 year ago
What a film! It’s the impression left by such graceful and eloquent filmmaking that makes J. Johnson an unforgettable film. J.Johnson is a simple story about a man's struggle to survive. Despite anachronisms, a few factual & geographic errors, this film is great and unique in its emotional intensity. Not much dialogue but just enough to be carried away by this touching movie. The silences are so expressive, they speak for themselves without any word. R.R is excellent as well as the other actors.
berbersissi 1 year ago
BEAR...but is does sound like he said bare beaver because he said its so fast I dont' think proper grammar was in there thought process
GLDHUNTRS 1 year ago
BEAR ,I saw this movie when it 1st came out in the drive -in Those were the days when they made good movies Now a days they have to do remakes and they suck raw eggs
GLDHUNTRS 1 year ago
I saw this movie when they had drive-ins Now those were the days....2 movies cartoons popcorn for around $5
GLDHUNTRS 1 year ago
omg, i saw this movie in school, the ending was kinda sad
archery411 1 year ago
I know this is probly a stupid question but is this a true story?
jennluvsnkotb74 1 year ago
@jennluvsnkotb74 You clearly haven't bothered to scroll back and look at any of the previous posts. The movie is based on the book "CROW KILLER, The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson". (Indiana Press) ISBN 0-253-20312-0. His real name was John Johnson. Six foot two and 250 lb of mountain man who in the mid to late 1800s declared a personal war on the Crow Indian Nation (or should I say they on him) and was reputed to have killed 300 of their warriors.
nightwing1409 1 year ago
@nightwing1409 The movie is based on" Mountain Man" by Vardis Fisher,
an excellent book as is Crow Killer.
huckstered 1 year ago
@huckstered Thanks very much for that information. That is another book I shall research and attempt to order in.
nightwing1409 1 year ago
@nightwing1409 You welcome, it is a mot excellent book, much fiction and little history but it is good nonetheless. I don't know if it is still in print or not I baought it back in 1973. It is a very account , it seems, of living in the wilderness if nothing else
with a lot of hyperbole thrown in.
huckstered 1 year ago
i wish i was in the 1800s. those were great times 20th century sucked and right now isnt better 1800s ruled 1800s were great times
mikejones3rfs 1 year ago
@mikejones3rfs Go live out there like Desertphile. He is here on you tube.
huckstered 1 year ago
Watch yer topknot!
alcoholofamer 1 year ago
You watch Youren!
fivechildren 1 year ago
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radlmc 1 year ago
Sorry, I got carried away in my typing. I ment to say give me THEN over now anyday!!!!!!!! Like some others have stated, I believe that i was born years and decades too late. I know things were much rougher then, but I live in and for the outdoors. Once again, i ment to say Give me Then over now
coldh2ocarp 1 year ago
Thanks for the post!! Love this movie!! I spent some time in the Upper Green area of Wyoming. Each year they hold Rendezvous Days each summer as the mountian men (Jim Bridger)and indians did on the Green years ago. I love it out there and hope to live out there again. However, this movie was filmed in Idaho BTW, liked the comment about the foreign photographers and squirrels...aint that the truth. Like others said.....give me now over then ANYDAY
coldh2ocarp 1 year ago
Hell, there are people who won't even venture out into the great outdoor today even with all the technology, imagine doing it way back then. How much we have we lost as people in our knowledge and ability to survive. If civilization ended tomorrow would you survive ?
nightwing1409 2 years ago 35
@nightwing1409 ..not me, but I 'd like to learn how to do it :)
prigual 1 year ago
@prigual I think it would be a brutal existence and you would have to have a real inner fortitude and be prepared to kill and eat anything if necessary and maybe fight for you life all the way. I think those already immersed in the outdoor hunter gatherer culture would be best placed to survive. Living the life style for prolonged periods would be another hurdle.
nightwing1409 1 year ago
@nightwing1409 i know...im going to live in the woods once i get older...now im learning how to and how to survive but im worried about the future if there is any situation someone will have to then there likely going to die.but yeah we have lost so much methods and knowledge
Aawsy 1 year ago
@Aawsy Well, until you're ready to make the move there is plenty of material out there in the way of biographies of people who have done it and lived the life style and survival books that will provide plenty of satisfaction. I don't know what your location is or what terrain is on your back door step but even a weekend away roughing it in the bush with the most basic of provisions provides plenty of reward. You don't have to be trained to Special Forces standard to go bush for a few days.
nightwing1409 1 year ago
@nightwing1409 The skills might be lost, but there's a part of the brain that's dedicated to the survivalist stuff, maybe that's why he decided to be a mountain man.
Tenientemani 1 year ago
@nightwing1409 what "great outdoor"? Congress is allowing the whole planet to flood into the US for new "voters." Soon the country will be one mass suburb.
GeekBoy03 9 months ago
@GeekBoy03 Yep, you're right. It doesn't matter what country you're from, the world is over populated and it is getting harder to find a piece of wilderness, but it is still there and you can still find your own piece of paradise without anyone else to disturb you. I spend most weekends in the high country in the company of my rifle and my fly rod. Heaven forbid I should ever need a permit or have to pay for what is surely my birthright.
nightwing1409 9 months ago
@nightwing1409 Know alot of people that wouldnt thats for sure
BubbaJ47fg 7 months ago
@nightwing1409 yes i would
wyattsimpson17 7 months ago
@wyattsimpson17 Good for you. That would be two of us.
nightwing1409 7 months ago
@nightwing1409 i even dream of living in the wilderness
wyattsimpson17 6 months ago
@wyattsimpson17 I'm lucky. Brought up in the outdoors and a 20 year career in the military I now live in a rural community with the mountains and lakes on my back door step. I can be in the middle of nowhere in less than an hours drive. Park, hide the truck, camp, fish, shoot. Nothing like a meal cooked in the outdoors and a night in a bivi bag under the stars waking to cast a fly on a mist covered lake. Life is good.
nightwing1409 6 months ago
@nightwing1409 they say when the bs of life is getting you down 'there ain't nothing like a campfire and a can of beans". yah. yah
RobertJamesAsmus 3 months ago
@RobertJamesAsmus. You're not wrong. I'm not religious (more spiritual) but for me a night in the high country, standing chest deep in a lake with a fly rod in hand, is my own personal form of Sunday church service. It insulates me against the BS I have to deal with during the rest of the week and keeps me sane.
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Great to watch but just imagine; living your life moment to moment, never knowing if you were going to see the week out or going hungry because there just isn't any game through winter; having to ensure you could catch enough to eat just to stay alive, trying to stay warm and dry without the aid of Gor-tex or Polar-Fleece. Knowing that if you got sick or broke your leg that was likely to be the end of it.
nightwing1409 2 years ago 4
@nightwing1409 I think that kind of freedom would be worth the risk. At least for me, anyway.
Voltaire4ever 1 year ago
@Voltaire4ever Yes I agree completely. What an experience. Even today there are still plenty of places in the world that you can do it and plenty of people willing to try, and with the gear and knowledge available in this day and age you stand an increased chance of success. Having visited there before Alaska would be my preference.
nightwing1409 1 year ago
@Voltaire4ever There are the physical challenges but then there are the psychological one as well. It is acknowledged that some people just can't hack it and go mad under these circumstances. City people might as well shoot themselves. There have always been people who choose to live like this, even today, and there are still places in the world where you can do it.
nightwing1409 1 year ago
I wish life could be like this nowadays. Now up where jeremiah roamed, there's freaking Asians taking pictures of squirells. I moving out to Montana now becuz of this movie
markuswv 2 years ago 5
@markuswv I'd rather have them than honkeees - who fucked every indigenious culture in the world - let's just kill the white man - look what johnson and the rest of his cracker tribe turned this country into - FUBAR!!!
gomergilligan 1 year ago
a 50 caliber hawken.
rimmerthon1981 2 years ago
At 1:51 he asks a guy where he can find "bare beaver"
jblackie47803 2 years ago 22
jblackie ... LOL! Good one. ;)
Lojikbom 2 years ago
@jblackie47803 Love your sense of humour jblackie47803. That is the question most of us blokes would like an answer to isn't it ?
nightwing1409 2 years ago
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@jblackie47803 BEAR...but is does sound like he said bare beaver because he said its so fast I dont' think proper grammar was in there thought process
GLDHUNTRS 1 year ago
@jblackie47803 Most of us are always on the hunt for bare beaver. LOL
mondo78 1 year ago
@mondo78 unfortunatly not everyone gets their peice or atleast not enough LMAO!!!!!!
leanmuscleking 1 year ago
its bear as in the animal
Mermaid1517 1 year ago
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Forysan 1 year ago
@jblackie47803
I believe what he actually asks is where he can find "bear, beaver and other critters,etc."
Flyrite2 1 year ago
@Flyrite2 thank you for pointing that out to the idiot jblackie
Polaris01Rider 1 year ago
@jblackie47803
He asks where he can find bear, beaver and other critters worth cash when skinned.
nathanrozelle 1 year ago
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@jblackie47803
He asks where he can find bear, beaver and other critters worth cash when skinned.
nathanrozelle 1 year ago
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@jblackie47803
He asks where he can find bear, beaver and other critters worth cash when skinned.
nathanrozelle 1 year ago
@jblackie47803 u idiot there's a common in that don't you know the English language? Best go back to school because there's a clear pause between bear and beaver, plus you misspelled "bare" its Bear!
Polaris01Rider 1 year ago
@jblackie47803 no it was bear,beaver and other critters
survivalgun 11 months ago
@jblackie47803 Well, we've all asked that question at some point ! Lol.
raspberrybaggio 10 months ago
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@jblackie47803 Well, i think we've all asked that question at some point ! Lol
raspberrybaggio 10 months ago
@jblackie47803 bear and beaver ...
steechluva 8 months ago
I watched this movie over and over with my Dad. I think everyone one of us long for a simpler life. Especially this day and age. I wish they still made movies like this.
roman3of23 2 years ago
I built a log cabin by hand when I was 17 after seeing this movie when I was 12.Always felt I was born 150 years late,but I'd a probably ended up being turned into bear crap........I always preferred the quiet,too.Used to be able to recite every word of the movie.even had the soundtrack at one time.Don't know what happened to it. I just finished my third cabin,but I use power tools now........not as much fun,but easier on the back.
Great movie but probably way too slow for this generation.
ksucowdocs 2 years ago 6
i was named after this movie ...caleb
ipinu 2 years ago
yep. crow.
jizdepski 2 years ago
Dido keymankeys, this is easily my favorite. I'm not into making top 10 lists for myself and such things - this is simply a movie that goes straight to my heart and soul in many ways.
So, a little trivia:
what statement in the movie is never spoken all at once, but only spoken in fragments throughout the movie?
Jonno2summit 2 years ago
seriously, i recommend this to anyone who hasn't seen it. brilliant.
yeliabbb 2 years ago
ONe of the best of all time. I have seen it over 30 times. The dialogue is great "grown particular". The casting was outstanding. "Do you happen to know what month it is"? It's always fresh every time I see it. Five Stars...
baxter1002 2 years ago
Fantastic film..I saw this the first time when I was 7 and me and my brother (we grew up on a ranch and learned to hunt and such) got lost on purpose for a week to attempt to be Mountain men haha good times and amazing film
drizzt354 2 years ago 2
drizzt354
What happened when you got lost?
CandelarioGaIvan 2 years ago
Well we stay out there for a few days till my old man tracked us down with a ranger we were living in a cave hahah we were grounded for a looong time but it was worth it
drizzt354 2 years ago 2
drizzt354
Dude you seriously need to log what ya did, how you did it and what you could have improved on.
Their are a bunch of forums that would love to hear your story
CandelarioGaIvan 2 years ago
Well man back then I was really young so I barely knew anything I knew what kinds of plant life u could eat such as sage and different weeds but those will only get you soo far cause u need carbs and protiens such as fish and meats (deer, coyote, boar) Rabbit and squirel are NOT good for survival at all because they are lean meats that take more energy to skin and cook then u will ever get out of them...though I didnt know this at the time..Now days I do alot of backpacking and survival stuff
drizzt354 2 years ago
I love to explore new places and try and see how long I can stay out there (hobbies for the summer time)
I do alot of trapping and huntin
drizzt354 2 years ago
This is my favorite all time movie
keymankeys1960 2 years ago 4
This is without peer------the greatest movie of all time. These were real men. This once great country is losing this type on a daily basis. If God allows us to start over, and begin fresh, I'd like to think I would have made my way into the mountains as well.
lahinch95 2 years ago 6
One of the all time great movies.
Imaroughboy2 2 years ago 3
i agree with ceaser360
josh2012 2 years ago
I agree with Titan752.
I watch this movie over and over, I have all the dialogue memorized...even the Native American!!...perhaps that's sad to admit.
The intro is amazing and the score perfection.
Redford is perfect for this...and he plays the character so low keyed, so quietly that it draws you in because you want to know more about him.
"Nobody know whereabouts he comes from and it doesn't seem to matter much"
That's what keeps you guessing what he's really like.
Perfect.
edmonddantes64 2 years ago 5
This is one of the great classics! Great story and beautiful photography! It ranks as my favorite film with Robert Redford! I bought my DVD copy a few years ago..love the soundtrack music! The individual who answers Johnson's question about catching 'bear, beaver and other critters' is actor Charles Tyner, from "Little House on the Prairie" fame... "Ride due West as the sun sets! Turn left at the Rocky Mountains!" Classic film dialogue!
Titan752 2 years ago 7
this movie actually relaxes and calms me everytime i watch it. with all the fast pace city slicker media junk nowadays, movies like this are priceless gems!!!!!!!
cesar630 2 years ago 6
Well "FinestCitizen" each to his own taste but given the little information on your profile I can understand why this material isn't to you're taste and there is a cultural gap between you and your grandfather. By the sounds of it he is a man of good taste. May be you should forget about social misfits like Michael Jackson and think a little more about the real people that made your country great like John Johnson. People that needed real skill and talent just to stay alive.
nightwing1409 2 years ago
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What a boring movie. My grandfather makes me sit through this and watch it with him whenever I come over to visit.
FinestCitizen 2 years ago
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Rockthelove89 2 years ago
ONE OF THE BEST EVER WESTERNS
mal334455 2 years ago 2
One of the best movies ever
JxGxS 2 years ago
best in my opinion i love it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much
JDsCountryStables 2 years ago
The movie was filmed entirely in Utah at the following locations - Alpine Loop, Ashley National Forest, Leeds, Snow Canyon State Park, Ivins, St. George, Sundance, Timpanogos, Uinta National Forest, Wasatch-Cache National Forest,
Zion National Park, Springdale, Utah, USA
nightwing1409 2 years ago 3
According the book (CROW KILLER) Johnsons story commences in 1843 when he stepped of the steamer at St. Joseph, Missouri and ends with his death in Dec.1900. at the Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles.
nightwing1409 2 years ago
The begining of one of the greatest movies ever Im glad someone put this movie on you tube i liked all your clips.
twista558402 2 years ago 2
basically he's a jedi of the 1500's
gamecubeman83 2 years ago 2
1800's
frolicwitme 2 years ago
oops, jedi of the 1800's
gamecubeman83 2 years ago 2
Highly recommended reading for the survivalist and back to nature wanabe mountain man the book is based on fact but a lot of the information is gleaned from stories and legends around the character of John Johnson. Although I read a couple of unnecessarily harsh reviews of the book, never the less it is a totally absorbing tale of an American legend and long since dead lifestyle.
nightwing1409 2 years ago
Thanks for the tip, NightWing. Soemtimes it's hard differentiating tales of the Old West, fact from fiction. In the end, I wonder if it really matters?
Sometimes I go exploring for lost mines, according to legend and records, in the wilderness. Haven't found one yet, but I've never found a better way of getting off the beaten path with a purpose. ;)
Lojikbom 2 years ago
@nightwing1409 It is a very good book but it still is a lot of B.S.
with all of the exaggerated heriocs that are included into the tale.
huckstered 1 year ago
@huckstered Thanks for your comments. I suffered a similar problem with "Crow Killer", which incidentally received a poor review. Although I very much enjoyed the book and was thoroughly absorbed by the story, unless such events are a mater of historical record they become a matter of conjecture open to the poetic license of the author. I suspect this is a problem faced by most authors of historic material and therefore I try not to be too critical.
nightwing1409 1 year ago
@nightwing1409 History is documenatation, period. Histrical fiction is basedon history, which is a good , tongue in cheek approach. But his mountain man book by Fisher is complete fantasy drawn from a lifestyle an does not even remotely approach a factual accounting of any tale. This will be obvious to anyone of
an objective mindset that attempts to take this as serious reading. It is a fantasy
like star wars or avatar. Entertainment and nothing else. John Wayne run amuck
murdering.
huckstered 1 year ago
If you love the movie try the book it was based on. CROW KILLER The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson. (Indiana Press) ISBN 0-253-20312-0. His real name was John Johnson. Six foot two and 250 lb of mountain man who in the mid 1800s declared a personal war on the Crow Indian Nation (or should I say them on him) he was reputed to have killed 300 of their warriors. YOU WILL LOVE THE BOOK, I PROMISE.
nightwing1409 2 years ago
Could anybody post this movie on youtube? I just LOVE IT!
kirillpushkin 2 years ago
Easily my favorite movie of all time, even with the sometimes stilted Redford performance. But hey ... he was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none.
tdkelly10 2 years ago
This movie is better than Oh Brother Where Art Thou which makes it the Best Movie Ever Made.
7surplus7society7 2 years ago
i agree
hobosapien97 2 years ago
BEST MOVIE EVER................
ClarksonsinUSA 2 years ago
agreed
CHUMPZ1LLA 2 years ago
Terrific Movie
blehman12 2 years ago
The way that you wander is the way that you choose the day that you tarry is the day that you lose.
photoshopgirl202 2 years ago
Great movie about the West.
Best of Redford's movies.
When the world was straight!
43JumpinGreen 2 years ago
so they removed the whole movie from youtube, that is sad, they'll never stop people uploading movies and they'll NEVER stop piracy. Fuck you
MickeyLove01 2 years ago
I met Robert Redford on a flight from LAX to JFK March 7. I told him he'd always be "Jeremiah" to me. He grinned an approval. I blogged it here:
alancockrell.blogspot..com
yakpilot1 2 years ago 2
One of my favorite Robert Redford films!!! Such an emotional film. I loved everything about it. I loved the sad music by Tim McIntire who starred in American Hot Wax in 1978 and died of congestive heart failure due to drugs in 1984. John Milius also helped write the screenplay. Great direction by Pollack who also died not too long ago. I just loved how the film tracked his progress from situation to situation and how he grew more experienced with time and still wanted to remain alone. Great!
kwadinka 2 years ago
Who sings the song
FreeskierGGBB 2 years ago
Tim McIntire.
ParkerAllen2 2 years ago
I thought the movie was awesome and I'll never forget it. There is a flaw. I'm sorry to say this... but wasn't it kinda, you know, long? The movie should have ended when him and the skinhead were parting ways with that giant mountain in the backdrop. But noooo, they have to go on for another hour with Johnson killing indians and having useless conversations with people. The whole last hour should have been cut. Other than that, great film.
methodandmadness 2 years ago
M&M, I agree. I love the concept of the movie - a man with personal issues, torn by war, seeking a new path of independence - but it stopped being enjoyable for me when he hooked up with those soldiers and his family was killed. My only fav point after that was when he and Del Gue parted ways.
Lojikbom 2 years ago
@methodandmadness yeah man i saw this and i loved it i mean i dream is to live in the mountains...and i will but the story got boring after the boy and the indian girl died i didnt like the ending either
Aawsy 1 year ago
@Aawsy I bought a very nice Cold Steel fighting tomahawk (a rare find in my country) two weeks ago and have been motivated to re-read "Crow Killer" (if you can follow logic). As is always the case a book usually allows you to exercise much more imagination than a film.
nightwing1409 1 year ago
@methodandmadness
I am sure if one of your friends leaves your acquaintance your life doesn't suddenly end....the story is supposed to be about the guy's life...the last wasted half hour is about how he has finally been accepted by the Indians and is a vindication of his decision to go into the mountains. Last half hour is the best.
donnyab 1 year ago
I saw this soundtrack cd for sale on ebay
jbkahl 3 years ago
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jbkahl 3 years ago
I´ve been in this river...It´s Green River (indian name: Siskadee) in Utah...I´ve been in this place where Jeremiah arrives...
venivedichingui 3 years ago
.50 caliber Hawkin!
Anybody notice that his hair doesn't get any longer throughout the whole movie? lol
progressiveecho 3 years ago
It's spelled Hawken, FYI
tdkelly10 2 years ago
It's Jeremiah Johnson.
stevebostonian 3 years ago
the only jeremiah johnson i know is the oreogn duck football player hes also really good. GODUCKS!
OregonFanFunk 3 years ago
i dont know if it came from a book or not, sorry.but i need to get a camp some day up north in pa to get the fuck out of pittsburgh, i hate the city.
angelostallone 3 years ago
I saw it when it first came out in 1972. I was 14 and it blew me away. Loved the scenery.
seeingthesigns 3 years ago 2
great movie!!!
solimiansky 3 years ago
this movie gets me fired up to go hunting and fishing its comming on amc saturday night at 8pm too even though i got it on vhs and dvd il still watch it.
angelostallone 3 years ago
awesome movie
dave1234fuknab 3 years ago 3
Best movie ever, its just too good. I brough it 3 months ago, I cant stop watching it, I bet this movie made millions back then.
GordonFreeman70 3 years ago 2
it actually didnt. it was away from theatres after 2 weeks.
stevebostonian 3 years ago
time2whisperlikdasongfromRobert's Movie-That has all my emotions tied in a knot???
camelback84 3 years ago
great film
nismolord 3 years ago 2
THIS MOVIE IS A CLASSIC
JUNO43 3 years ago 2
best movie ever made
bigbuffjakob 3 years ago 3
It sounds like Keith Carradine (sp)?
cagekicker18 3 years ago
ONE OF THE BEST FLICKS ---"EVER"
walleyrt69 3 years ago 4
amen
MykeWeiler 3 years ago
pelicula de puta madre q todo el mundo deberia ver
aquamati 3 years ago
such a great song for a great movie.if anyone knows the name or the artist let me know>
mbie202 3 years ago 2
There are few movies, especially from the 70's and into today that can compare with Jeremiah Johnson. Especially if you fancy life in the western era, or something to Native American culture. The movie is priceless. Then and now still. I just wish there were more like it.
Keys879 3 years ago 2
Not everyone has their own kickass theme song.
Hooliganza 3 years ago
One of the best movies ever made
richardperaltamiguel 3 years ago 5