History Film / TheOutlawJoseyWales

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The character of Lone Watie (implied to be a relative of Civil War general Stand Watie). He claims that the Cherokee declared war on the Union because of their sufferings on the Trail of Tears. The Cherokee Nation was actually split among Union/Confederate lines due to preexisting factional warfare; the Confederate-allied Watie faction was in favor of removal to Oklahoma, and many of them had voluntarily relocated there years before the forced removal of the rest.

-=>=- '''Fletcher''', ''The Outlaw Josey Wales''

->"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining."
->-Fletcher, ''The Outlaw Josey Wales''

* HeyItsThatGuy: One of Wales's many victims is [[{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]], here playing a bounty hunter.
** And Fletcher is obviously trying to put Josey Wales on [[AnimalHouse double-secret probation.]]

* RealLifeRelative: Clint's son Kyle Eastwood played Josey's son.

* TooDumbToLive: The two bounty hunters in the forest, particularly the first one, who ignores his friend's sensible advice that Josey probably has another gun on him. [[spoiler:He does]]
* WagTheDirector: In a weird way, the TropeMaker. Early in filming, Clint Eastwood decided that he could do a better job than the original director, Philip Kaufman, was doing. He therefore arranged for Kaufman to be fired and took over the directorial duties himself. This disgusted the Director's Guild of America enough that they [[RuleBreakerRuleNamer created a new rule]] stating that whenever a film's director is fired, their replacement has to be someone with no previous connections to the film. This is why, nowadays, actors are forced to WagTheDirector rather than just outright firing them and directing themselves. More commonly they just hire someone willing to take orders.

* AmericanCivilWar: Specifically the carnage in Missouri, where the guerrilla fighting [[WarIsHell was so vicious]] by both sides that it was practically a civil war within the Civil War itself.

** Then Josey, who has arrived late to the party, gets his hands on it. AmericanCivilWar MoreDakka ensues.

Set during the aftermath of the AmericanCivilWar, '''''The Outlaw Josey Wales''''' follows a man whose whole family was killed, leading him to join a group of Confederate guerrillas to track down the killers. After eventually being sold out, however, he is on the run from bounty hunters and Yankee soldiers (including the group who killed his family). Along the way, while racking up a prodigious body count, Wales meets a group of people whom he [[IneffectualLoner reluctantly]] allows to join him. HilarityEnsues. And by "hilarity," we mean "murder." This is a Creator/ClintEastwood movie, after all.

->Fletcher, ''The Outlaw Josey Wales''

* AuthorTract: The portrayal of the Union soldiers in the film make it quite apparent that this film and the book it was based on were written by a pro-segregationist Southern apologist.

Set during the aftermath of the AmericanCivilWar, '''''The Outlaw Josey Wales''''' follows a man whose whole family was killed, leading him to join a group of Confederate guerrillas to track down the killers. After eventually being sold out, however, he is on the run from bounty hunters and Yankee soldiers (including the group who killed his family). Along the way, while racking up a prodigious body count, Wales meets a group of people whom he [[IneffectualLoner reluctantly]] allows to join him. HilarityEnsues. And by "hilarity," we mean "murder." This is a ClintEastwood movie, after all.

* BadAss: Well, the lead is played by ClintEastwood.

* DueToTheDead: Defied by Josey when two bounter hunters nearly capture him. Josey says "to Hell with them," spits tobacco juice on one and leaves their corpses to be eaten by buzzards.

* ShootTheRope: This is how Clint Eastwood sends his pursuers downriver.

** Interestingly, although the author of the original book (Asa Earl Carter, writing under the pseudonym Forrest Carter) was both an active segregationist and a member of an independent Klan group, he was actually fairly even-handed in the novel. The Union massacre of surrendering guerrillas, for instance, was an invention of the film. In the book, Carter wrote the Union soldiers as simply accepting the surrender as agreed. Also in the book, the Redlegs were a RenegadeSplinterFaction rather than Union regulars.

** Interestingly, although the author of the original book (Asa Earl Carter, writing under the pseudonym Forrest Carter) was both an active segregationist and a member of an independent Klan group, he was actually fairly even-handed in the novel. The Union massacre of surrendering guerrillas, for instance, was an invention of the film. In the book, Carter wrote the Union soldiers as simply accepting the surrender as agreed.

** A more literal comical RunningGag version is Josey spitting on the "mangy hound"

* MagneticHero: Josey, he even lampshades it
-->"I suppose that mangy hound's got no place else to go either"

* RealLifeRelative: Josey's son was played by [[ClintEastwood Clint Eastwoods]] son Kyle Eastwood.

* SnakeOilSalesman: One shows up as a ButtMonkey

* WagTheDirector: In a weird way, the TropeMaker. Early in filming, Clint Eastwood decided that he could do a better job than the original director, Philip Kaufman, was doing. He therefore arranged for Kaufman to be fired and took over the directorial duties himself. The Director's Guild of America was so disgusted by this that they [[RuleBreakerRuleNamer created a new rule]] stating that whenever a film's director is fired, their replacement has to be someone with absolutely no previous connections to the film whatsoever. This is why, nowadays, actors are forced to WagTheDirector, rather than just outright firing them and directing the film themselves. More commonly they just hire someone willing to take orders.

Set during the aftermath of the AmericanCivilWar, '''''The Outlaw Josey Wales''''' follows a man whose whole family was killed, leading him to join a group of Confederate guerrillas to track down the killers. After eventually being sold out, however, he is on the run from bounty hunters and Yankee soldiers (including the group who killed his family). Along the way, while racking up a prodigious body count, Wales meets a group of people whom he [[IneffectualLoner reluctantly]] allows to join him. HilarityEnsues. As does a lot of killing. This is a ClintEastwood movie, after all.

* {{Antihero}}: Wales himself.

* BadassGrandpa: Lone Watie.

* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Little Son and Wife]]: The death of Wales' family pretty much gives him a reason to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* WagTheDirector: In a weird way, the TropeMaker. Early in filming, Clint Eastwood decided that he could do a better job than the original director, Philip Kaufman, was doing. He therefore arranged for Kaufman to be fired and took over the directorial duties himself. The Director's Guild of America was so disgusted by this that they [[SkippyRules created a new rule]] stating that whenever a film's director is fired, their replacement has to be someone with absolutely no previous connections to the film whatsoever. This is why, nowadays, actors are forced to WagTheDirector, rather than just outright firing them and directing the film themselves. More commonly they just hire someone willing to take orders.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Most of the people Josey kills get at least one kick in immediately before he shoots them.

* KickTheDog:
** Most of the people Josey kills get at least one kick in immediately before he shoots them.

** And of course, at the very beginning, the Senator's Union soldiers murder all the surrendering guerrillas. Oddly enough, this extra bit of villainy was not in the original novel, which was ''itself'' written by the man who came up with the "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" speech.