Remember Billy?

[_Markk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVX-voqWuwY

I was in 7th grade, and this was the coolest movie out.

[_MeDotOrg]

I always thought of the Billy Jack movies as the liberal equivalent of Charles Bronson's Death Wish movies.

[_subgenius]

I always thought of the Billy Jack movies as the liberal equivalent of Charles Bronson's Death Wish movies.

+1

[_Res Ipsa]

i know I saw at least one, but it must not have made much of an impression. i remember the hat.

[_Markk]

I always thought of the Billy Jack movies as the liberal equivalent of Charles Bronson's Death Wish movies.

When it came out, Vietnam was winding down, and I had two brothers over there, one an enlisted bad ass, the other drafted and 100% anti war...so I was all over the place as to what to think. Kinda like Billy I suppose, an ass kicker...yet hippie.

I actually had a crush on "Carol."
https://www.google.com/search?q=Teresa+ ... 3hCm-aGQHM:

The Death Wish movies were great.

[_subgenius]

I highly doubt they remake the Billy Jack movies...for a host of reasons...but the remake of Death Wish is looking good.
http://deathwish.movie

[_Markk]

I highly doubt they remake the Billy Jack movies...for a host of reasons...but the remake of Death Wish is looking good.
http://deathwish.movie

It looks good.

[_MeDotOrg]

I always thought of the Billy Jack movies as the liberal equivalent of Charles Bronson's Death Wish movies.

When it came out, Vietnam was winding down, and I had two brothers over there, one an enlisted bad ass, the other drafted and 100% anti war...so I was all over the place as to what to think. Kinda like Billy I suppose, an ass kicker...yet hippie.

I actually had a crush on "Carol."
https://www.google.com/search?q=Teresa+ ... 3hCm-aGQHM:

The Death Wish movies were great.

Well my brother fought in Vietnam and I was a draft dodger/resistor (take your pick), so I certainly get the zeitgeist of the times. In the way that Death Wish movies gave Bronson the rationale for behaving brutally and sadistically, I think the Billy Jack movies tried to paint an either/or world.

Looked up "Carol" on IMDB. Her name is Teresa Kelly, and the Bill Jack movies were the high point of her cinematic career.

[_Markk]

Well my brother fought in Vietnam and I was a draft dodger/resistor (take your pick), so I certainly get the zeitgeist of the times. In the way that Death Wish movies gave Bronson the rationale for behaving brutally and sadistically, I think the Billy Jack movies tried to paint an either/or world.

Looked up "Carol" on IMDB. Her name is Teresa Kelly, and the Bill Jack movies were the high point of her cinematic career.

I think the Billy Jack movies were about as left as one could be looking back. As a 7th grader and a son of a WW2 vet, the underlying message about the school was just just stupid, the karate was what we identified with. I related with the Green Berets and John Wayne maybe more...in that it was how I was raised.

I think she (Carol) might be Tom's real daughter.