The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Movie Review
Monday, March 24th, 2008
Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) is the one of the members of the James crew on the last train robbery before Frank James (Sam Shepard), Jesse’s older brother, quits the crew. Jesse (Brad Pitt) seems to take an unusual liking to this new outlaw who doesn’t seem too fit for this ruthless job. However, after a while Robert must part with his childhood idol and this is when the real tale begins. This film is not really about the assassination of Jesse James, or about how Robert Ford accomplishes this feat, but rather about the degeneration of Jesse James until he becomes so paranoid that he can’t trust even his longest standing crew members, and at the same time Robert Ford’s disillusioning his childhood idol [Jesse James] to make him no longer into a hero but a villain. (more…)
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