I was about 14 when Billy Jack came out. I remember seeing the ads on TV and then every evening thereafter I'd wait for the Billy Jack commercial to come on to watch over and over🤭☺. The movie, along with the Bruce Lee movies inspired or influenced to study martial arts not to mention my step-dad encouraged me by paying for my classes. I went on to earn my brown belt and girls took over my interests. But the thing about all this was not kicking people around and or self-defense but the discipline aspect of it, I had a very well trained sensei, not just a master in the martial arts but the teachings of life. Priceless!
Billy Jack is my all time favorite movie. I was 12 when it came to the drive inn and the message that came across is still with me today....Thank you Tom and Delores you made a difference in the world.... RIP.
Billy Jack was a hero of my as a young child. He set my out look on life. Because I have a very very bad child hood coming up. We choose our heros eather in movies or in real life. Sometimes the ones we see on the movie screens can help make us into better adults as we got older & better to others. M
I was 10 when Billy Jack came out and now at 61, it's still my favorite movie of all time. I begged my Mom time after time to take me to see it again ... so She took my brother and me to the movie theater 13 times. My poor Mom & brother ...LOL! 🤣 I have all 4 movies in a special box set and have watched them several times over the years. If I was watching it and my brother came by the house, he'd leave immediately and all you could hear was "Oh nell no". Him 🤮... Me 😍!!!
Who would've thought the cult classic Billy Jack, would ultimately be the blueprint for the production, marketing of all movies to follow! Well played Tom.
I am glad they made this movie, I hope it changed the world in other ways. It made me cry, and showed me how man can treat each other. Most of all though it made my heart yearn for men like this.
Tom Laughlin, Billy Jack had such a profound impact on my life. Anytime I watch that movie, I realize some great lessons that I learned from it. Absolutely one of my top favorites.
JEFFED1977, True , the Laughlin’s impact in Hollywood was / is overdue. Sequels to movies didn’t really exist before then , where the viewers anticipated another release. Though if soured , the comfort of their contribution is a well deserved laurels of their achievements. Thanks.
Everybody's a liar nowadays cover up is the name of the game 🎯 and have you ever tried to get a cop to help you unless it's giving you a traffic ticket 🎫 it's nice to go back and see a movie look this but I don't know if there is a real Billy jack out there🔙
Thank you so much for your reply!..I was thinking about what could I say to you cuz I'm at a loss for words. But I think that covers it..take it easy brother
That was very interesting and a worth while watch. Remember being very young and going to the pictures to see it. Of course my sister cried. Always loved that movie
Even though it was an independent film and Warner Brothers only distributed it, the cover of the soundtrack album still says on the front: Music and songs from the soundtrack of the Warner Brothers Picture. Incidentally while the full version of One Tin Soldier was the first song on the soundtrack album, it was the CLOSING track on Coven's self-titled second album.
We learned alot about abusive behavior comitted against Natives and also recognized it was happening to others. Billy Jack planted the seed of disgust for bad behavior and mistreatment of peoples, all peoples. I lived my life not considering Color or Race a thing. Conduct, Charactor, and culture subsccribed to. Sadly, thinking that way blinded me to other truths. I may have thought that way. Others from all walks of life have their own views. No matter ones intent, anothers perception is their guide.
When I was in high school this was a cult classic already. We would recite the great quotes and imitate some of the fighting scenes in gym class, everyone wanted to be Billy Jack. The 70's was also a time of enlightenment and a return to nature. Earth Day was started, pollution was being cleaned up, the plight of Native Americans was also brought to the forefront, that had a lot to do with the success of the Billy Jack series. I would watch them again today.
I saw "Billy Jack" in Denver CO. in 1974 when it 1st came out, .. I started my training in TANGSOODO/ TAEKWONDO/ HAPKIDO that same year.... The movie was and still is a big sucess, .. I am now a 9th Degree / Dan Black Belt and I owe a lot opf my sucess to the movie "Billy Jack" that encouraged my training!
What extras came in your DVD box set 📀 because the one I have only comes with comments track 📼I didn't know if a different box set might have more bonuses 🎫
The name the hat and the song?? Throw in Tom in the lead roll and right there you have a blockbuster movie, seen it when it first came out in the theater in the 70's did not even know what it was about no advertising back then.
I remember billy jack and early days of billy jack. I worked for LUMMI NATION maintenance for 18 years my nickname was "jimmy jack"!... 🤨 Cause I would watch BILLY JACK one of those movies you never get tired of I guess...
I think the maker of this video misses the point. He doesn't address WHY the file was so captivating to people (not about indians or rights but about a strong willed individual and the power one has when he realizes it). He keeps yammering on about films of today, which make a point of reducing individual power to that of the collective. The theme of the film made it attractive, that's why people see it over and over again. People don't see a film multiple times because of marketing strategy.
When I first saw the movie Billy Jack I believe I was aboit 15 years old and I thought it was great. I watched it again about 8 years later and realized how shitty it actually is.
Man, I loved "Billy Jack" when I first saw it in the 1970's, then again later on video. A couple of decades later I was working on my home DVD collection, and since "Billy Jack" was one of the seminal movies in my life, I wanted to get it. But first I went back and watched it again... and said "nope." The movie had aged so poorly, was so simplistic in its black and white depiction of human conflicts, and just had the most god-awfully awkward, earnest and totally lame dialogue ever produced - I just couldn't watch it again. It shames everyone involved, and is - oddly - a stain on Indian culture because of it's white man appropriation of the culture. I once found it cool, but it'ss not a classic, it's an artifact of its time. I have other movies from that era ("Harold & Maude," "Vanishing Point" and more) that have aged like wine, despite their various 21st century "sins." But "Billy Jack" is just stoopid now that I'm not a teenager any more. (Nice soundtrack with "One Tin Soldier", though... that epitomized the era.) I'm not nostalgic for the early 1970's, but there really was a lot of creativity going on. But a megalomaniac like Tom Laughlin doesn't hold up now. I've moved on, Billy... :)
So a psychologist manipulates the psyche of a nation to make a movie about injustice to native Americans and makes a lot of money. How much did he give to the Indians?
In addition he taught Hollywood how to make more money by advertising movies on television with targeted marketing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions indeed.
We saw Billy Jack at the 'right age', and thought it was the biggest piece of shit we had ever seen. After seeing its sequels, I modified that into ONE of the biggest pieces of shit ever seen. The movie is laughably bad from the childish writing, to the heavy handed directing, to the smug, smarmy and preachy message of self righteous hatred towards the group despised by the Marxist writers. Yeah, Billy Jacks sucks on SO many levels.
" ..these 2 kids .." sued Warner Brothers? In 1972 Tom & Delores were 41 & 40 years old. True, nowadays many 40-year-olds are still basically overgrown children, playing video games & walking around with their cap on backwards & dressed in shorts in the wintertime without a pot to piss in, but at the time of 'Billy Jack' you were an adult at about halfway to 40.
