...that maybe Asa Watts was terrorized in prison and was maybe forced to grow his hair long to give the other prisioners a more womanly sex toy. That could be the reason that he just so pathological. Any opinions?
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My opinion is that you are a nitwit. But don't let that keep you from posting more "wing-nut" cr@p- I can use the laughs.
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Augustus,
The boards are supposed to be an open forum in which people should be free to express their opinions and conjecture. Just because you don't agree with what someone has posted or you think their conjecture is just too farfetched to be plausible should not be a reason to call them a "nitwit". Doing so only serves the purpose of putting you closer to being in that category yourself than the original poster.
A more reasonable reasonable response would be to ask the OP to cite some instances from the movie that might have led him to develop this hypothesis. In that vein I think edward posits an interesting proposition and would ask him what he saw in the movie that suggested this to him or whether he was just speculating. Have tou got anything, edward?
jtb01
No big deal. I guess it my lame attempt to create a back story. It keeps my nitwit brain alive. LOL.
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The fact that Asa Watts not only possesses long hair in the film but is actually nicknamed "Long Hair" (and identified that way in the closing credits) is very telling. In that era (the early seventies), long hair constituted a cultural symbol that tended to be either embraced or scorned. The Cowboys is clearly scorning it and suggesting that it represents deviance and immorality, a stance that squared with the political perspective that Wayne broadly represented.
Now, according to his infamous Playboy interview published in May 1971 (around the time when Wayne would have been shooting The Cowboys with director-producer Mark Rydell), the Duke professed to being unbothered by long hair on a male, saying that back in his days as a young adult—before becoming a movie star—he had once sported longish hair himself. But from a broader perspective, The Cowboys arguably serves as a metaphor for Wayne's political paradigm: amid a changing America where old values such as loyalty, commitment, honesty, and trust are supposedly fading and people are deserting the mission, he embodies traditional bedrocks against the "Long Hair" that disregards morality and propriety.
Of course, making "Long Hair" a racist allows the film to avoid simplistic political dogma and dichotomies.
My opinion is that you are a nitwit.
I second your opinion.
I often imagine characters' back stories and sometimes future stories; what would happen beyond the end of the movie. I didn't do that in association with this movie but even if I had I don't know that I'd even come up with that.
It is an interesting take on that character. He was mean and hateful for a reason and that's as good a reason as any. My only question is why he would continue going by that name if he had been terrorized. No, if he kept the name perhaps he didn't really mind what happened in his prison days.
In fact, that may be the reason he was so eager to work with Anderson and all those young boys. Maybe he goes both ways. When Anderson rejected him, he stalked him like a jealous lovesick puppy. He did also keep trying to grab the boys every chance he got; even promising to come and sneak up on that one kid during the night. I could go on but I won't.
Ha ha, where are all those posters who are always suggesting gay undertones in every movie? See how easily anything can be twisted to appear as ridiculous as someone wants?
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