Mark wrote:
I figured out very quickly that God Is A Bullet was a
contemporary version of The Searchers if rewritten by James
Crumley. Substituting for the Indians in John Ford's classic
film is the Manson Family, with Cyrus standing in for
Charlie. Unlike Paul Shrader's Hardcore (another updated
remake of Searchers), it retains a southwestern setting, but
like that movie it splits the John Wayne character into two,
"Bob Whatever" the judgemental father and Case the
streetwise, degraded young woman who simultaneously helps the
father and serves as an object lesson on what the daughter
will become if she is not saved.
******** I did the imdb thing and found out that the movie
The Searchers is based on the same-titled book by Alan Le
May. I put the movie in our Netflix queue. Aside from simple
plot similarities, comments on the characters in the movie
sounded close to the Teran book also. I think Le May's book
came out in 1954 and the movie in 1956.
miker
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