Wild Bill as played by Jeff Bridges

[Pancho]

I just caught a little bit of "Wild Bill" as played by Jeff Bridges. He looks a lot like Bill. The main scene I was able to see was when Calamity Jane fetches his nickel plated navies and Bill goes to a stable to have it out with the bad guys. I sure wish I'd counted his shots from the beginning because it sure seems he shot a lot. Does anyone have the tape or disc so they can count them for me?

 

[Titanvk56]

I caught some of that last night as well...thought it was kinda cheesy.

Deadwood has spoiled me I guess......hmmmm, may have to break open the box set again tonight.

 

[Pancho]

I didn't get a chance to see much of Deadwood what I did see was great. Maybe I'll ask for the set for Father's day.
I didn't see much of "Wild Bill" and considering the number of shots Bill got out his brace of navies cheesy could be accurate.

 

[Titanvk56]

If I had a dollar for every time I have watched Deadwood....I would have a very large gun collection!

I am still upset with HBO for schitcanning the series....

 

[Mausermike]

Keith Carradine was excellent in Deadwood. Wild Bill was really portrayed as being in the dumps by this stage of his life.

I was watching "The Quick and the Dead" yesterday on the dish. The guns were a little over the top (all chrome and engraved) but the first gunfighter that fought deCaprio was shown preparing his percussion revolver. I think it may have been a LeMat because it had more than 6 shots in the cylinder. Russell Crowe shot an 1851 Navy cartridge conversion. (the crappiest gun they had in the gun shop)

 

[Doc Rizzi]

Deadwood was great....

Deadwood got some things right. They did a good job capturing the depression that Wild Bill was going through as a result of his failing eyesight. He went to Deadwood to try his hand as a miner. There never was a barn shootout and Calamity Jane and Bill were never as close as the Deadwood show made them out to be. He did know her and although she was crazy about him....he never returned the favor. Jane's surviving family made more of the relationship that there was. They even went as far as having her buried close to him. They are closer in the cemetery than they ever were in real life. The real Bullock ran a hotel in Deadwood.

 

[StrawHat]

Another mention of the failing eyesight was when he shot his own deputy in a gunfight as the man was running to aid Hickock. Hickock saw a man with a gun running toward him and could not see well enough to recognize him.

I read somewhere, that by the time he went to Deadwood his eyesight had failed to the point he held the cards only inches from his face to count the spots.

 

[J.T. Gerrity]

While Jeff Bridges was outstanding as "Wild Bill", the story (and number of shots from a cap-n-ball Navy) had very little to do with reality. I made the mistake of buying this turkey on DVD, and I've only watched it once. All of that malarkey about Jack McCall confronting WB and telling him he was going to kill him... the real WB would have dropped him on the spot! And McCall getting the gang together to help him get Bill... AND the totally gratuitos sex scene between "Calamity Jane" (some speculate she got her name from the unfortunate condition she left her "Johns" in after she serviced them). It was so totally over the top, I didn't even finish it. Too bad, because Jeff Bridges put in a masterful portrqayal of WB, far better than David Carridine (who was good in his own right) in capturing the essence of Bill.

 

[Pancho]

J.T. If you get a chance, take a look at the barn shoot-out scene and count the rounds shot by Bill. It should be easy because the camera in on Bill for every shot. It didn't occur to me to count until the gunplay was nearly over and still I counted 4. At the very least the Hollywood Bill didn't believe in loading 5. It sure seems that Hollywood pulled a "Roy Rodgers". It's always pissed me off that the Hollywood Liberals thinks that no one knows or cares about accuracy in detail let alone how they screw with history.

 

[sundance44s]

Hollywood is just another example of how each time a story or folklore is told it just gets bigger and better each time it`s told ...and heck they got to sell tickets ..Somehow they have to make DeadWood sexy ..truth be told , it would be depressing .
I enjoyed the movie because it wasn`t slow and dull ...and I took it as what it was..... good movie .

 

[Mausermike]

I don't know if I agree. Deadwood looked like a pretty harsh place to live! Its the political intrigue that makes it sexy and that's involving a handful of people maintaining control over a huge majority of nobody's, keeping them in line with a steady flow of booze, dope and women!

 

[MK11]

I agree on Jeff Bridges. David Carradine was fine in Deadwood but seeing "The Dude" as a pretty believable Wild Bill was great. Most of "Wild Bill" is awful but the flash backs are pretty good, especially when he stops off at a shack/saloon in the middle of a snowstorm and gets into a nasty close range gun fight.

 

[Pilot]

I liked both Jeff Bridges and Keith Carridine as Wild Bill. Deadwood was a great series and somewhat more believable than other Hollywood westerns, but we have to remember this is about entertainment and profitability and has little to do with reality.

Keith Carridine and his brother David due a show on the History Channel that I like called "Wild West Tech". They sometimes throw in references to Keith's Deadwood character and David's "Kung Fu" past. Pretty funny.

 

[scottw]

I taped the movie and went back to the barn scene and quit counting after Wild Bill fired 16 shots. I would like to have those guns.

 

[BigG]

Jeff was the spitting image of WILD BILL

 

[DrLaw]

uh-huh

I taped the movie and went back to the barn scene and quit counting after Wild Bill fired 16 shots. I would like to have those guns.

16? Must have been two of those new-fangled double stacked Colt Navy's.



The Doc is out now.

 

[Titanvk56]

That reminds me of the scene in Open Range where Charlie fanned about 12 shots from his Peacemaker.

 

[J.T. Gerrity]

I agree with the flash-back scenes... made it almost worth the price of the DVD. Too bad that the story went straight to S*** the second Bill stepped off the stage in Deadwood. Tying Jack McCall into Dave Tutt (supposedly Jack's father!) was a bizarre twist, too. Too bad, because, as was portrayed in the series "Deadwood", the real story was good enough to make a great movie, and Jeff Bridges incredible performance wouldn't have been wasted.

In this case, the legend definitely wasn't made bigger OR better.

Pancho, I know what you mean by the miraculous never-ending Navy Colts... I guess Wild Bill must have been so fast on the move that he reloaded without us being able to percieve it! (and please limit the "liberal" remarks... some of us take offense).

 

[BigG]

JT Gerrity, you are right about the Dave Tutt, McCall inanity but Jeff Bridges really did Wild Bill proud in the flashbacks. The other storyline was total fabrication. I did love it when he hit that Chinese pipe, though. The Chinese were looking at him with wide eyes. That is Wile Bio !

 

[pohill]

if I were a freakin' Conservative, I'd keep it quiet and slink away to hide my head in shame

But that's not offensive...

 

[bigbadgun]

Jeff Bridges Did a good job but the story line that Hollywood apted to take was garbage. The flash backs were good but thats about it. And I agree Jeff Bridges does look alot like Wild Bill.

 

[J.T. Gerrity]

Pohill, in my neck of the woods that's known as a "taste of your own medicine". You will find no unsolocited commentary of this ilk from me, but we liberals get plenty of it from others. I've said my piece regarding this; let's not hijack this thread, if it's not too late.

 

[pohill]

The only liberals that I have a problem with are the ones that want to take my guns and my money. Otherwise, live and let live.