No eulogies for Bob

[@blaisetelfer8499]

"I was only 20 years old then; I couldn't see how it'd look to people" That's ones of the heaviest lines. This movie helps you visualize how much of history has been made by young men acting on impulse

[@lazarusfromabove]

But then again people are impulsive beings, and its a good bloody point. Regardless of this movie and dark story, in some other story, myb brighter, being impulsiveness is quite normal, and recomended otherwise you'd sit on your bottom all the timeand do nothin with your life. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all....

[@RustinChole]

The way the narrator tells you what’s going to happen before it does, gives the story a sever, devastating sense of finality. Combined with the soundtrack, and the acting from the whole cast, still one of my favorite films 13 years later.

[@aclockworkpeon]

I was just thinking about that too as I watched it. It's almost to pay double respect, because yes we know what's going to happen, but it's still shocking nonetheless, but instead of relying on the shock and horror of Bob Ford being gunned down, it relies on the quiet melancholy, as though to say, yes this happened well over 100 years ago and while the shock is gone there's still a lingering sense of melancholy for those lost in time to history... although as long as there are still filmmakers to tell the stories...

[@svenusling]

Main rules of cinema. Never use a narrator and show, don't tell. They do both of those sins in this film, and it works better than any other movie ever made. For me, this IS the greatest piece of cinema ever created.

[@247Weed420]

Yes i love all the scenes with the narrator. So beautiful

[@johnsullivan4580]

It runs like a Greek tragedy. It's the fall of a "great man" with the narrator functioning as the Chorus, and the audience knowing how it ends walking in. Jesse has his fate, and so does Bob, and no matter what they do, they can't escape it. Part of what makes it really special is that one of them, Jesse, seems to know his fate throughout. He talks like a mystic at times, and he sees it all ending in that gorgeous execution scene. But poor Bob is an innocent. We all know history will write him off - when not actively reviling him - but he just can't see it. He really thinks that he can be a "great man," too, by performing this deed, only coming to realization years later and far too late. I love this scene as his anagnorisis, but instead of it being this explosion of recognition, it's all done quietly and with his sad smile. This film was (and is) SO sadly ignored by the general public, which is a shame because it's just so beautiful and brilliant.

[@garad123456]

@@svenusling Very well said! I think film narration is a complicated thing. It's always fake, somehow. Showing moving image is not the same as living through something. Sometimes narration can bring up the events in a more fitting way than just showing it

[@booboo1970]

" what I expected? Applause. I was only 20 years old then. I couldn't see how it would look to people. I was surprised by what happened. They didn't applaud."

[@Redfield982]

Haunting.

[@paulhewes7333]

"A song for Bob" is as beautiful a piece of movie music as has ever been made.

[@niklastorshagen6365]

the whole sountrack is

[@benoliver5776]

thats cave baby

[@Rafaelxt2]

Yep

[@blaisetelfer8499]

My favorite instrumental soundtrack of all time

[@duffsman316]

In my opinion, the greatest film ever made. A psychological look and harsh truth of the “idol” and the “idolator”, the disillusionment of the fan when faced with the celebrity and ramifications of the actions of both. It is a story of severe regret, one that makes you truly feel pity for both men.

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

true, I can't see a single flaw with the film, it may indeed be a pure 10/10, and not even LOTR can claim that given its various flaws

[@SisyphusOfSodom]

Probably part of the reason Hollywood made sure it got wrecked by the critics and did a piss poor job at promoting it.

[@JamesReynolds-cv4re]

It was a harsh time a imagine you had to grow up fast .

[@jonathanwright8025]

NEVER meet your heroes. If you do, always maintain a distance. Smile, shake hands, but remember the person you are meeting is not the persona you see on tv.

[@jon8004]

@@SisyphusOfSodom Hollywood did an OK job promoting it, and the critics largely loved it. I remember. I went to see it in the theater when I was living near Hilton Head Island, S.C. I love the movie. I'd change nothing about it, but there are simple truths. The title is going to alienate A LOT of people. The word on the movie was that it was slow and nearly 3 hours. Both are essentially true. The test screenings of the movie went terribly. The studio wasn't going to pour a ton of money into promotion because they knew that, no matter what, the more they spent on promotion, the more they would lose. On top of that, they had wanted a more straightforward movie, but Pitt, through his contract, basically protected Dominik's version of the film. Pitt protected the movie's creative integrity, but the more he did that, the more he harmed the box office - which I'm thankful for. The movie is a masterpiece. But you can't always have creative integrity and box office profitability, and certainly not when you're making a 3-hour, 19th century meditation on fame and infamy. At the end of the day, both parties did what they should be expected to do: Pitt protected the creative, the studio limited their financial downsides. It became a neglected masterpiece, but it was made, and its reputation grows every year. There isn't much to complain about.

[@jeffadkins5812]

“He kept to his apartment all day, flipping over playing cards…” *music shifts* “Looking at his destiny in every king, and Jack.” Goosebumps, every time.

[@peteocean2848]

"The light going out of his eyes, before he could find the right words". Damn cold.

[@luchobeanzzrgv9530]

I love when he says “ You know what I expected? Applause “…the way Casey Affleck Delivered that line was very very good. Beautifully delivered line.

[@kevinmoynihan8087]

The follow-up line with a downcast, ironic delivery makes it even better - “I was surprised by what happened…they didn’t applaud…” as they both nervously laugh

[@fantasticmrgoat3343]

These four and a half minutes make you feel like you knew Bob ford personally, masterclass in cinema ♥️

[@EasternOutlaw09]

This movie really should’ve been considered a masterpiece. The acting and writing is absolutely amazing. And it provides a good story even if you don’t enjoy the Wild West.

[@brianwilliams6167]

It is

[@npickle54]

I like windows

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

indeed

[@solinvictus1982]

You know that an actor is good when, with a few imperceptible gestures, pauses, words, can move you until the point he draws a teardrop out of your eyes. I can say that Casey Affleck is definitely a good actor.

[@papachungus799]

The way his character grows over the film is fantastic, his mannerisms and overall demeanour mature and change, so good!

[@emmaladouce]

Je suis entièrement d'accord avec toi 👍❤🌎🦁👑

[@BrankoBanee]

Thank the editor for that, too 😁

[@MvximeAlexandre50000]

"that he truly regretted killing Jesse, that he missed the man as much as anybody" heartbreaking 😔

[@nicholasshade]

💔

[@MeAbroad2004]

@@nicholasshade We get older; many of the things we did in youth we regret. well, at least as this welshman goes, it is true

[@S93-x1m]

He wanted to be famous but ended infamy then his regrets set in

[@MrBigotes503]

It broke my heart when narrator said he misses the man

[@didimean]

@@MeAbroad2004 This year it has started hitting especially hard. Especially around Xmas. Looking back at all the times you took for granted with the people you loved... thinking those times would last forever. But they never do.

[@DeadEyedTye]

I could watch this scene a million times over and never get sick of it. Brilliant capture of the real story.

[@WittyDroog]

"The light going out of his eyes before he could find the right words" Even in death Bob wanted to have some cultural impact in the same way Jesse did, even down to the last words, commenting on a dusty picture. Such an innocuous phrase, but steeped in interpretation and meaning and discussion over decades. Bob couldn't manage even that. A tragic, poetic end.

[@daleyfrancis]

I bought the audiobook of the novel because it was read by the narrator of this film. It’s absolutely perfect, just like this film, and the book.

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

where can i download that from?

[@issacjones5440]

Robert Ford: A man so shunned that the movie he was featured in did not win a single thing. No nomination, no award, not even as much as a recommendation

[@luisdaniel7027]

He was a Coward!

[@Tom.Ireland]

@@luisdaniel7027 did you watch the film?

[@Mentis-de]

Nah..Critics loved this movie. It just didn't perform well on the box office because it was "to long" and "boring" for the mainstream. But even in Germany at that time i heard a lot of of good critics about this movie before it even came out.

[@SidGolan]

The movie was nominated for 2 Oscars. Casey Affleck for Best Supporting Actor, and Roger Deakins for Cinematography

[@steveburchill9033]

@@luisdaniel7027 debatable...Jesse groomed him for his act..the interplay between both men actually left Robert Ford with no alternative...was Jesse cowardly in inviting a young starstruck youth to destroy himself? The myth, the complexity are all open to dispute...what people seemingly want is a conclusive understanding..blame syndrome... when the reality is always submerged in the internal psyche and cultivation(s) of manipulation....

[@OleBoyJenk]

This music is simply amazing. I didn’t realize until a little while after watching that the composers for this film also composed the music for The Road. Its just so powerful

[@OldFartFilms]

Cave & Ellis (The Bad Seeds) Also recommended, the soundtrack they did for ‘The Proposition’. Cave wrote the screenplay 😊

[@sludge_factory_foreman]

'Wind River' is another of their scores. Unbelievable talent and ability to convey emotion.

[@mikejames4961]

They did the score for a Turkish film called 'Mustang' aswell, one of their best imo

[@rjm463]

Perfect movie; the writing, directing, acting, cinematography, narrating and soundtrack. All flawless.

[@JackOfSpades7300]

The narrator, the background music are what makes me keep watching the movie more

[@condemnedpotbelly8491]

Me too

[@walterhartwellwhite4890]

This movie is masterpiece.

[@Johnnysmithy24]

So is Breaking Bad

[@sassk3227]

“Just cause you shot Jesse James, don’t make you Jesse James.”

[@sublime2craig]

This and Gangs of New York, best modern movies ever made!

[@doct0rnic]

I only hope that one day the directors cut will be released, the original movie was almost 4 hours long

[@shawnking3337]

It's the best... I love this movie sooooooooo much

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

I'm just mesmerized by Casey's performance. It's perfect and real in a way that I feel I could just reach through the screen and be right there in that place with him. His way of talking and mannerisms are exactly like friends I've had.

[@patriotaRBC]

It still bugs me how this movie didn't receive the recognition it deserves. It will became a lifetime classic like The Shawshank Redemption

[@johnsullivan4580]

I'll watch Shawshank any time it comes on, but I have to say it's much easier to digest for a lot of people. It runs about 20 minutes shorter; the characters and their desires are much more one-dimensional; and it has that feel-good ending with everyone getting what they deserve. This one is much more dense. It demands something from the audience, and Lord, that ending. So beautiful but so, so sad. It'll always be the better movie because it's better written and better made, but Shawshank will always be the more popular, I think.

[@trawlins396]

This movie deserved every award on earth. It was an impeccable film.

[@Wi11liamMunny]

IT Did . From us WHO felt IT. Its no 1 … masterclass

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

indeed, it's of a similar calibre as Shawshank, even surpassing it in many ways

[@MattVincentNYC]

“A Song for Bob” will always give me goosebumps… this film is perfect

[@kingsleyroberts8226]

This has to be one of the finest (and woefully underrated) denouements in film history. The score is f*cking astounding (tip of the cap to Mr Cave).

[@scotrose6298]

This film was Andrew Dominik’s masterpiece. Such an under appreciated work. How Roger Deakins did not win for best cinematography is also a huge injustice. This film did so much more than I feel is realized.

[@247Weed420]

"Even as he circulated his saloon, he knew that the smiles disappeared when he passed by" Something about that line just seems so depressing. A man who has it all but emotionally has nothing at all.

[@CB-mv2kg]

Yeah it's a lovely line and the way they shoot it is like he's moving through water but there's no ripple effect from his movements, if that makes sense? Like as soon as he moves by it's as if he wasn't there...

[@hj-ct2qi]

Something I never noticed before is that as he flips open his newspaper at 3:43, you can see for a split second that he's reading the St. Joseph Gazette. As if looking for news about Jesse's family, even ten years later.

[@Southern_Agrarian1930]

Thanks for noticing! I watched the movie multiple times, and I didn't catch it.

[@Kalanioccc]

dated in march

[@sublime2craig]

I literally think of Bob Ford on a daily basis. Such a true American story of Teen angst and the pitfalls of celebrityism and fame...

[@adamelam6385]

Bob Ford was a coward.

[@sublime2craig]

@@adamelam6385 Your just showing how dumb you are when it comes to his and the story of Jesse James. Robert Ford was a teen when all of this happened. So tell me at the age of 18-19 did you hijack and rob a train? Did you join and ride with one of the most feared gangs and outlaws of the time. Did you find the courage to draw down on and kill one of the most notorious and deadly Western Outlaws? Did you open a bar and show your face every day in public even though you know everyone around you is calling you coward and murderer? Jesse was extremely paranoid at the end of his life that one of his gang members would kill him for the reward money. He even killed a couple of his old gang members due to suspicions he had. Bob and his brother Charlie became paranoid that they’d be next, so no doubt this played into their reasoning to kill Jesse, so with all that said I would say Robert Ford was in no way a coward, maybe not brave in the real sense of the word, but in no way a coward.

[@adamelam6385]

@@sublime2craig it literally says it in the title. He's a back shooting coward.

[@adamelam6385]

@@sublime2craig I like how you glorify brutalizing and murdering innocent people for financial gain. Do you still feel that way about murderers and robbers today? Or does it not have the allure of the old west? He was a back shooting coward and his worthless brothers did the more honorable thing instead of living and being known as the brother of a back shooting coward.

[@sublime2craig]

@@adamelam6385 and we don't do that now with celebrities? What would you call rap music? I would say they "glorify" violence and murder a lot more than the myth of the golden Wild West. Your trying to pick a fight like a little petulant child and an internet tough guy, so again your dumb and uninformed on pretty much everything your commenting on. So fuck off and try to look like a "Cool Guy" somewhere else...

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

honestly the saddest and most beautiful western I've ever seen, and in my Top 5 movies of all time

[@abubakryasin3997]

You watch this and each time something else comes out, like anything of quality, you find many layers, superb film !

[@cnote2458]

The pain in every line and facial expression is just phenomenal. I really think Cassey Affleck should have got an Oscar for this. One of the most powerful performances in cinema history in my personal opinion. He showed how complex the young man was. And all the diffrent emotions his character is feeling we are feeling it with him. Edited: Also I love a little detail in this film. If you see in this scene his Saloon is in a tent. That was because he brought the property and it burned down 6 days later. So he erected a temporary tent saloon. And he died 3 days after the fire.

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

it's the best performance I've ever seen, it's criminal he didn't win

[@rickardblane8369]

Underrated describes this movie perfectly the movie is the Robert ford of the western drama living in the shadow of films like Django and true grit.

[@travb705]

I love how Ford seems to pause and stare for a long moment at the entrance as he walks around the bar to sort thru his mail. Almost like he has a premonition. I only noticed that on the 80th or 81st time watching this scene. 😁And the newspaper is such a nice touch. News stories contributed to the James’ myth that seduced Ford, and it also hints at the beginning of a new era - mass communication and commericialism (the ad for baking powder) - as another old west legend is about to die. Great, great movie.

[@hj-ct2qi]

Not to mention that he's reading the St. Joseph Gazette, as if looking for news about Jesse's family, ten years after turning their lives upside down.

[@simonburgess3003]

This film and soundtrack are a masterpiece and so under appreciated at the time, would love to see this at the cinema.

[@justinwillingale2086]

Edward O'Kelly came up from Bachelor at one P.M. on the 8th. He had no grand scheme. No strategy. No agreement with higher authorities. Nothing but a vague longing for glory, and a generalized wish for revenge against Robert Ford. Edward O'Kelly would be ordered to serve a life sentence in the Colorado Penitentiary for second degree murder. Over seven thousand signatures would eventually be gathered in a petition asking for O'Kelly's release, and in 1902, Governor James B. Ullman would pardon the man. There would be no eulogies for Bob, no photographs of his body would be sold in sundries stores, no people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege, no biographies would be written about him, no children named after him, no one would ever pay twenty-five cents to stand in the rooms he grew up in. The shotgun would ignite, and Ella Mae would scream, but Robert Ford would only lay on the floor and look at the ceiling, the light going out of his eyes before he could find the right words. When I first watched this at the theatre simply brilliant.

[@SuperMontana2008]

Brilliant writing and narration, brilliant music, brilliant actors, brilliant movie.

[@davidmorris8434]

One of the greatest films ever made!An acting,direction and film score masterclass!

[@MikeStuchbery_]

One of the great film endings of all time.

[@sd21z]

Totally agree

[@joelmartinez2278]

This movie doesn't get the credit or attention it deserves. Fantastic acting by everyone, mood of the storytelling and sequence is damn near perfect.

[@tesspadmore5367]

One of the best movies and soundtracks ever.

[@williamcole960]

just wanted to say i love all of you. you beautiful people who recognize beautiful art.

[@mffl2002]

This song. Makes this scene that much greater.

[@randytoye6657]

I have recommended this movie to around 20 people and each had said how great it was and they never ever heard of it before…It’s a classic

[@trawlins396]

This movie was impeccable. It deserved every Oscar on earth.

[@NPC_-mf4dw]

"The shotgun would ignite, and Ella Mae would scream..." This is pure poetry. It's so simple yet gets right to the bone of the matter. Wow.

[@redriver6541]

One of the best movies I've ever seen. How it's not more well known is baffling.

[@neilpemberton5523]

The studio didn't want the movie to be so long and so lavished with brilliant production values, so it didn't promote it. Sad but true.

[@JL-rx7ou]

This movie was absolutely the epitome of storytelling and cinematography. Yet did it receive accolades? Did any actor here get nominated? Did the director or producers get awards? Did the cinematographer even get a mention?

[@jmack3411]

Roger Deakins is such a great cinematographer.

[@saturatedcranium]

A film that I ,can confidently say, is unjustly under-rated.

[@Johnnysmithy24]

True

[@jamison023]

I pray for the man Robert Bob Ford...a cursed world he lived in...never meet your idols and familiarity breeds contempt...Bob's no worse than Jesse...rip bob

[@Plathismo]

One of the most haunting endings in modern film.

[@mfvreeland]

This film is so underrated. I keep coming back to it, and it always blows me away.

[@dannydeece513]

I read a review where this film was described as “majestic.” I can’t think of a better description.

[@nateds7326]

Oh so *THATS* what depression feels like.

[@didimean]

Honestly, it is one of the best depictions of depression I have seen. Alongside Manchester by the Sea. Casey Affleck is a hell of an actor.

[@shaundeverson2163]

I think what this story tries to convey about Bob is that sometimes the time and context can get the best of anybody, that when confronted we can all be 'cowards', we're human and we're designed to make mistakes. Forgiveness is key and that, if anything, is what this movie hopes to impart to us all for Bob.

[@TalonsOfFire]

Some of the best cinematography and music of any film from the 2000s. Great script and acting too. Would love to see an extended cut. Interesting ending too.

[@petec5135]

Just wonderful cinema. Thank you for sharing. I do however wish someone would post the same clip + the credits which do add to the class of the films ending. Genius is an understatement.

[@poo1352]

This is my favorite movie of all time. The epitome of a masterpiece.

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

indeed

[@aztro4010]

The best Western ever made.

[@bryansteele832]

Funny thing is..Its not really a western. Not in the conventional sense.

[@Leomendoncacampos]

LMAO this movie just has a beautiful score and cinematography. It's not even that good.

[@Davids677-e1w]

​@@LeomendoncacamposIt's one of the greatest movie ever made

[@sadeaton]

Frank James saw right through Bob at the beginning of the movie, never understood why Jessie didn't.

[@hj-ct2qi]

There are a few lines in the book that explains it better than the movie, perhaps, describing Jesse as "a faulty judge of character" and having "a callow need for attention," which may be why he agreed to be around Bob in the first place. Being confronted with someone as obsessive as Bob fascinated him and stroked his ego, especially as he came to grips with the fact that his own career as an outlaw was coming to an end and his list of loyal men growing thin. Toward the end of the story he actually becomes envious of Bob, telling him, "If I could change lives with you right now, I would," and wishing he could have a clean slate without the burden of his crimes.

[@hj-ct2qi]

Also, if you believe the theory that Jesse had been contemplating suicide and allowed his assassination to happen because of that, you could argue that he always saw in Bob the possibility that he would be the one to kill him and kept him around BECAUSE the idea interested him. I was listening to The Cine Files podcast episodes about this film and they described it better than I could: That for Jesse, Bob was like the gun that you buy when you're considering shooting yourself. In your more lucid moments you hate the gun, you despise it and wish it were gone, but you just can't get rid of it because you know one day you're going to be pushed over the edge and use it. When they came to the scene where Jesse gifts Bob a new handgun, they said, "If Bob is like a gun, then Jesse just bought bullets, too."

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

I think Jesse did, but he enjoyed toying with them too much

[@Daniel-sh3os]

So many great character actors in this film. The actors in Jessie's gang did great job with their smaller roles. The casting director did a hell of a job. They really should give awards to casting directors.

[@Thermalburn]

Its amazing how in just this one scene you go from despising a character a whole movie, to feeling sorry for him

[@abhii1000]

The best eulogy ever made❤️

[@NeverDauntedRadioNetwork]

This film was equally as beautiful as it was haunting. It is a perfect film, a dark lullaby to show the line between fame and infamy. I think the film was released 10 years too early.

[@georgedulle6601]

Zooey Deschanel is unbelievable in this for the 20 seconds of screen time she has. Never been better. When she says "so you were scared and that's the only reason?" she really communicates her doubt in him as a man but she watches him with real love. That tells a whole story of a character in two or three shots.

[@RandomDudeOne]

The person Zooey Deschanel is portraying in this scene, Dorothy Evans, committed suicide that night. Robert Ford was raising money for her funeral when Edward O'Kelley shot him.

[@Johnnysmithy24]

Why did she commit suicide?

[@tanveerhasan2382]

Damn....

[@RandomDudeOne]

@@Johnnysmithy24 I tried to find the source I read about it but haven't been able to find it. If I remember right she had asked to work as a prostitute in his club and he declined it. She was an opium or morphine addict as well, I think that's how she died, from an overdose.

[@Johnnysmithy24]

@@RandomDudeOne Damn...

[@sl11tenderhand]

Thanks for this.

[@richardadesmond]

Robert didn't even get his death scene, which I believe, plays into the narration that plays over top of, not only was he never destined for great things, his death didn't even go out "famously" on screen. Nice edit. I also like how the end of the film bookends the beginning, where you have the narrator talk large about Jesse and how amazing he was supposed to be, and here you just get the blunt reality of Bob's lasting memory.

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

I still vividly remember seeing this masterpiece in the cinema with my dad on its release day in 2007, one year before he committed suicide. Still to this day it's the most haunting and masterful movie I've ever seen

[@johnmurphy7674]

One of the most underrated movie ever

[@sullivandmitry1416]

Such a phenomenal movie. Beautiful performances all around.

[@DavidColumna]

What an amazing scene. I just can’t stop watching it.

[@The_Bermuda_Nonagon]

Never meet your heroes. They can never possibly measure up to your preconceived image of them. : (

[@lilgrasshoppah]

Everything is about perfect in this scene.

[@LW-hx3oz]

This is a great movie Casey Affleck should've gotten an Oscar for this IMO

[@notahandle965]

Sheep incapable of thinking for themselves and who need to be told what to believe really have no clue what this movie is about. Robert Ford wasn't a coward; the title of the movie specifically is ironic. It's a reference to how the whole narrative is skewed and how that failure of people to see through it doomed Bob. The title says one thing, yet in the movie, we see Bob isn't a coward at all. He shot someone who clearly wanted to be shot, and who otherwise would have shot him. When Jesse James is assassinated, it's hardly even an assassination. On Bob's part, it's self defense. On Jesse's part, it's suicide. Jesse James did nothing to earn his god-like reputation, Bob Ford did nothing to earn his status as a monumental coward. The movie displays this perfectly outright. At the beginning, his character is described with poetry, as an angelic, larger than life Robinhood who could do no wrong and is utterly magnificent. Yet in all of the scenes with Jesse, he does nothing impressive. In fact, he's kind of an asshole. He's an asshole who just gets worse and worse as he gets more and more stressed out. He beats up a child for not answering his question while holding the child's mouth shut, carrying himself like he's some badass while doing it. That's not the badass noble superhuman god-status Jesse James Renegade Outlaw we know from the stories. And he knows that. He cries after doing something so pathetic, realizing how deep of a hole he's dug himself, and the fact that he's so famed and beloved does nothing to save him from this reality, and underlies every interaction he has with every human being on the planet. He also is suicidal. Similarly, we see Bob as someone who is very relatable and trying to earn his way, yet at the same time no one takes him seriously and he can never do it. He did nothing to deserve getting treated with so much disrespect, let alone treated that way while so ambitious. The reality of trying to become Jesse James is futile, and as times goes on reality kicks in that Jesse very well may murder him. They're both victim to folk tales and reputation. They're 2 sides of the same coin: the reality of fame. Jesse could never leave his criminal lifestyle since it had made him into a mythic figure, Bob couldn't become Jesse because there was never any merit to the myth of Jesse James anyways, and he also couldn't escape the thing that finally made him famous, nor could he escape the type of infamy that would curse him the rest of his life. Both of their fates were sealed and they died the same way and for the same reasons, defeated by their own criminal lifestyle and vices, and accepting their fate with no emotion about it. If you watched this movie and what you took away from it was that Jesse James was God and Robert Ford was an emotionless sociopath, please turn your brain on.

[@hj-ct2qi]

Great analysis and I totally agree! Every time I see people saying "The title gives away the whole story" I cringe because they missed the point so badly.

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

well the story of how Jesse was shot is only known from how Bob and Charley told it. For all we know, the reason Jesse took off his gun belt and faced the picture on the wall could have been under duress from the Ford brothers

[@neilpemberton5523]

​@watch-Dominion-2018 Surely, it would have been hard to get the drop on Jesse, especially if he never took off his gun belt as the film says.

[@Alex-pk1iy]

This scene still sends chills through me. Truly the perfect ending for the perfect film.

[@goodstuff8156]

One of the best movies ever made

[@omidfilms]

I love the third person narration

[@WhereIsPancakesHouse]

This isn’t a movie. It’s art. Everything about it is perfect - the writing is poetry, the narration flawlessly delivered, the music is haunting, the cinematography is stunning and the acting is phenomenal. Just a beautiful film.

[@boturner8328]

Love when good music and good cinema align up perfectly as this.

[@MrBastilleDay]

You’re wearin that stickpin again Bob, opals are unlucky.

[@scatterthewinds3126]

Ah yes when Zooey Deschanel was in her late 20s and in every film.

[@krishisel5316]

This is my favorite movie ever made. It is a slow burn, for sure but it is such a good one.

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

Stunning masterpiece of a film like no other

[@alicivrilify]

Where else do you find such cinematography, acting, and music altogether? This movie is a mix of mainstream and high art, closer to high art. This is I believe why it is so underrated.

[@hipsterelephant2660]

I want to meet the narrator and shake his hand because his voice adds so much to the film

[@kyleshiflet9952]

Same here

[@DrEgonCholakian]

If I don't count neo westerns like No country for old men and Hell or Highwater then this was one of the best ive seen since Unforgiven

[@antoniovaldespino6650]

If Christopher Nolan ever makes a western, I believe this is how it would look like. Is one of my favorite films ever.

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

Nolan has never displayed this level of film mastery tho

[@averymartin321]

This is one of my favorite western movies in history. What's the crazy part is that Robert Ford wanted to be somebody so badly. He wanted to be Jesse and when he realized he couldn't, he killed him. Then when he was killed, nobody cared. He died a coward. He did all of that for nothing.

[@Whipspur]

I’ve watched this film a dozen times at least, and just noticed now that as he’s walking into his bar, there is a dead cat hanging by its neck in the doorway.

[@promoteyourfirm7502]

Jesse James American legend ….and the culture of celebrity

[@kyleshiflet9952]

He died the gunslinger way shot in the back like John Wesley Harden,Wild Bill Hickock,and the man he killed in the same style Jesse James

[@gabrielfanin1412]

Even the pushing away of that liquour bottle was amazing

[@johnmurphy7674]

One of the most underrated movies ever

[@nolanmoore4937]

My favorite scene is any movie ever.

[@cheddarandsourcream]

Fantastic movie. The score here is great and you really do feel for Robert even though he is indeed a coward thanks to Casey’s outstanding performance

[@richardmlouis]

One of the greatest movies ever

[@cmfrtblynmb02]

Younger people don't know this now but Zooey Deschanel was such a big name back then. She was "the girl" of those late 2000s early 2010s, the last remnants of the time before social media took over our lives. She was the crush of most millenials. Seeing her in such a small role in this movie in a mostly unrecognizable costume and make up was very surprising. I realized only after watching the movie and checking on internet about the movie. I was like "wait, that was her?"

[@emptyblank099a]

She was never a big name. She did a few indie movies and was popular in that scene. She wasn't a box office actor.

[@cmfrtblynmb02]

@emptyblank099a she was not. But she was a phenomenon among millenials. Still that's why it was surprising to see in a role that was so invisible.

[@jonasf1275]

the legend Edward O’Kelley

[@christianperez7846]

The film shows violence in its truest form and nature. Cold and without prejudice, it deviates completely.