what films/books/fairy tales show motives for revenge - and how it affects the avenger?
73The Alamo opening theme
Theme from Viva Max
Clip from Ride with the Devil
Outlaw Josey Wales
My top 10 Texas Revenge Films, Shows & Cartoons
Since I am not a movie mavin by any stretch of the imagination, the focus of my answer be on revenge films dealing with Texas. With this in mind, this hub will be my top revenge films dealing with Texas.
1. The Alamo films. The main Alamo films that people are familiar with are the John Wayne film of 1960 and the 2004 version with Billy BobThornton and Dennis Quaid. These films show the ugly side of revenge as Santa Anna takes his vengence out on the Texians held up in the mission. The Texians also take their own kind of revenge by sabatoging the Mexican cannons, although it is not nearly as bloodthirsty as Santa Anna's. The second Alamo film is more graphic in how it shows the black flag and features the song Deguello, which clearly shows that he is wanting revenge. It also shows Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid) taking revenge for the Alamo upon the Mexican army at San Jacinto.
2. True Grit (1969). This film shows the extent the young girl Mattie (Kim Darby) is willing to go in revenge for her father's death. Her journey finds her associating with people that she would not otherwise take up with, consisting of a Marshall and a Texas Ranger. During their time together, she develops friendships with those accompanying her. In this case, the young woman is seeking a greivance for wrongs committed against her family.
3. Secondhand Lions (2003). In this movie, the story of the two brothers struggle against a rival in the middle east in the early part of their lives reveals the long lasting aspects of revenge. Although revenge is not the main story, it forms part of the backdrop and becomes an important part of the ending. The long standing desire for revenge has driven their rival to extremes. In the end, the rival pays honor to the two brothers.
4. Viva Max! (1969). This is another Alamo related movie, although a comedy. In the film, Peter Ustinov leads his troops in a comical taking of the Alamo. Although revenge it part of his motive, it does not overpower him or the movie.
5. Tex Avery Cartoons- In many of these cartoons, the characters are involved in comical ploys designed to take revenge on their rival. The wolf is often outsmarted by Droopy. Although the characters and setting of his cartoons change the theme of revenge is a frequent one. By using humor, the painful aspects of revenge become something to laugh at.
6. Urban Cowboy (1980). In this film, there is an on-going rivalry between both male and female characters. The two main male characters attempt outdoing each other. Revenge becomes a factor as the rivaly at times turns into paybacks, with vicious steps taken to hurt the other party. The female figures also have a rivalry going with some limited revenge seen between them.
7. Robocop (1987) Although it's stated location was Detroit, some of it was filmed in Baytown, Texas. In this movie, revenge is assisted by technology as the main character seeks revenge for mistreatment he had received earlier in the film.The image of high-tech law enforcment was scary at the time, especially with revenge being a driving factor behind his use of force.
8. Walker, Texas Ranger-In this television series, there are many episodes that contain revenge as a theme. The revenge is not as extreme as seen in the Alamo films or comical as in the Tex Avery, yet it is revenge all the same. At times the revenge is centered on Walker and his associates, at other times revenge is what drives the criminals into the decisions they are making.
9. Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek Television series. Themes of revenge often surface in the episodes. The main revenge theme that stands out is that of the character Khan. Between the television episode where Khan's plan was thwarted and the motion picture, The Wrath of Khan, the character is seen as obsesses and driven to extremes by his desire for revenge. The movie contains the line, "Revenge is a dish best served cold". Although he was a man of many talents, Khan is driven to obsession by his desire for revenge upon Captain Kirk and the Enterprise.
10. RIde With the Devil (1999). I include this one, since Texas re-enactors were involved in the film. This film shows revenge and depredations committed in Missouri during wartime. The sacking of Lawrence shows how extreme the revenge can be after the wives of many of the men had been killed by the Missouri red legs.Here the revenge is gritty, becasue there is no comdy of science fiction to temper what happens. Since it is a historic topic, the revenge is unsettling. Another film which shares this genre is the 1976 movie, the Outlaw Josey Wales (originally entitled Gone to Texas). In the movie, the main character Josey Wales goes through a time of revenge and then attempts to leave it behind him, yet others do not let him leave it behind.
A List of Texas films: Filmed in Texas
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The Alamo
The Life of David Gale
Miss Congeniality
The Rookie
Second Hand Lions
Lone Star State of Mind
Spy Kids
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Hope Floats
Dazed and Confused
Courage Under Fire
The Faculty
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
Slacker
The Newton Boys
Red Headed Stranger
Heartbreak Hotel
Lonesome Dove
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
D.O.A.
Fandango
Nadine
Raggedy Man
Songwriter
Texas Chainsaw Massacre II
On The Road Again
Roadie
The Great Waldo Pepper
The Getaway
A Perfect World
Where the Heart Is
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Waiting for Guffman
Picnic
Screen Door Jesus
The 25th Hour (Disney)
Texas: The Big Picture (IMAX)
Yorick, Fool of Denmark
American Outlaws
Texas Justice
The Underneath
Two For Texas
Blank Check
Home Fries
Michael
The Soul Collector
Love and a .45
Waking Live
True Women
Flesh and Bone
Just Sue Me
Office Space
Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times
A Slipping-Down Life
A Texas Funeral
The Whole Wide World
The War at Home
Piranha
The Whole Shootin' Match
Lovin' Molly
Outlaw Blues
Leadbelly
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
San Antonio areaARMAGEDDON
Dallas area, Houston areaBOTTLE ROCKET
Dallas areaANY GIVEN SUNDAY
Dallas areaDANCER, TEXAS POP. 81
Fort DavisRUSHMORE
HoustonSONS OF THUNDER
Dallas areaSELENA
San Antonio area, Corpus Christi, PortAransas, LajitasFATHER HOOD
San Antonio, Houston areaACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS
Kerrville, San Antonio areaGRAND CHAMPION
Snyder, Marfa, Alpine, MidlanCAST AWAY
CanadianBARNEY & FRIENDS
1992 - 1999, 2002 Dallas area ( PBS)JERICHO
Brackettville, Del RioJIMMY NEUTRON,BOY GENIUS
DallasKINGPIN
El Paso (NBC)PEARL HARBOR
Houston, CorpusChristiTEXAS JUSTICE
HoustonSLAP HER...SHE'S FRENCH
Dallas / Fort Worth areaTOO LEGIT: THE MC HAMMER STORY
HoustonJFK
Dallas / Fort Worth areaTHE WAY SHE MOVES
Houston (VH-1)WAKING UP IN RENO
AmarilloAT ANY COST
Houston (VH-1)WALKER, TEXAS RANGER
Dallas / Fort Worth area (1993 - 2000, CBS)GOING TO CALIFORNIA
Austin areaA FACE TO KILL FOR
HoustonTHE EVENING STAR
Houston, Texas City, GalvestonJAG
Corpus Christi, Paramount Pictures / NBCLAST MAN STANDING
El Paso areaNECESSARY ROUGHNESS
Dallas areaTHE OPERATOR
Dallas areaLOLITA
Houston area, El Paso, San Antonio areaTHE RAGE WITHIN
Dallas areaLONE STAR
Eagle Pass, Del Rio, LaredoPOWDER
Houston areaSIMPLE MEN
Houston areaDALLAS
Dallas (1978 - 1990, CBS)TO SERVE AND PROTECT
DallasBLUE SKY
El Paso, Van Horn, Salt FlatSTREETS OF LAREDO
Terlingua, Alpine, Del Rio, BrackettvilleUNIVERSAL SOLDIER: THE
RETURN Waxahachie, Caddo LakeMERMAIDS
Midland, San AngeloSTREAMERS
Dallas areaA PAIR OF ACES
AustinTERMS OF ENDEARMENT
HoustonPROBLEM CHILD
DallasTHE YELLOW ROSE
San Antonio, Del RioTHE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
Dallas areaROBOCOP 2
HoustonTEXASVILLE
Archer City, Wichita FallsEDDIE MACON'S RUN
LaredoWILD AT HEART
El PasoBORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
DallasTHE JESSE OWENS STORY
Dallas areaLOCAL HERO
HoustonTHE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN
Corpus Christi areaSILKWOOD
DallasLOST IN AMERICA
Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, West TexasINDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
Amarillo areaSYLVESTER
Marfa, Alpine, Fort DavisINDEPENDENCE DAY
AnsonTENDER MERCIES
WaxahachieCALL TO GLORY
Del Rio areaBACK ROADS
BrownsvilleBARBAROSA
Lajitas, Brackettville, FredericksburgTHE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN
Houston areaROBOCOP
Dallas areaPARIS, TEXAS
West Texas, HoustonPLACES IN THE HEART
Dallas areaTHE LONG HOT SUMMER
Marshall, East TexasSOUTHERN COMFORT
Caddo LakePEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE
San AntonioTHE LONG RIDERS
Palestine / RuskMIDDLE AGE CRAZY
Houston, DallasURBAN COWBOY
Houston, PasadenaTHE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Houston area, Harlingen, BrownsvilleCENTENNIAL
Brackettville, Del RioCOTTON CANDY
DallasTHE BAD NEWS BEARS IN
BREAKING TRAINING Houston, El PasoBIG WEDNESDAY
El PasoSEMI-TOUGH
DallasSHE CAME TO
THE VALLEY MissionTHE SWARM
HoustonFUTUREWORLD
HoustonLOGAN'S RUN
1975, Dallas / Fort Worth, HoustonBENJI
1973, McKinneySUGARLAND EXPRESS
1973, San Antonio,THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK
1972, TexarkanaTHE THIEF WHO CAME TO DINNER
972, HoustonTHE LAST PICTURE SHOW
1971, Archer CityTHE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
1970, ShafterBREWSTER MCCLOUD
1970, HoustonHELLFIGHTERS
1969, Houston area
Texas Media Links
- Jeffrey Murrah's Texans Always Move Them: A True History of Texas
Your Source for True Texas History including Texas writers, actors and movies. - The Ten Best Films of SXSW 2008
- Films About Texas
- List of films set in Dallas, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Amazon.com: "Great Texas Movies"
- Texas Governor Rick Perry - Film Commission
- Texas Association of Film & Tape Professionals
- Texas Film Festival
- Texas Black Film Festival | 2008 Dallas, Texas
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Bozyslawa,
Thank you for your kind words. I have enjoyed your hubs, although I am more intrigued by the thought provoking questions you ask. In terms of how to work the photo issue, you might want to start with Wikipedia. Look for photos in the public domain. The article on the subject has some sites that have many photos. Once I find photos that I like, I use photoshop on them. Since I am still learning photoshop, some of the photos are still not where I want them to be.
On the Amazon items, click on the module. Once it is in place, I play with the tabs. I often limit the selection to books or movies categories I am focused on. Once I have made that limitation, then I do a keyword search for a particular topic. There are often a few items that I did not want, but I figure it may help with exposure and possible sales. Let me know it this helps.
Sorry i took so long to reply and show my appreciation - too many things on my back, like a monkey grab.
It feels great to receive such thorough reply and willing help from you. I am not sure to what degree i will be able to follow your advice, and so it is most encouraging to know i can always get back to you for more friendly help!
thanks for being such a nice person and a good remote friend.
all my questions are "loaded" and part of my reasearch either into my lectures or workshops, or planned works or chapters in my book. Peaople are such a mine of incredible sources of information, thought, inteligence, creativity, one can find gold nuggets in the least expected places. i really take my hat off to all the unsung heroes of research, creativity, inspiration and ingenuity that the hubbers provide with so much enthusiasm.
what do you think i could do with my hubs to make them more appealing? your opinion would be deeply valued.
thanks again, Bozyslawa
Boyzyslawa,
I have enjoyed your hubs about stories, nightmares, etc. I find myself struggling with the loaded questions for hub requests though. I started writing a response to the legal history of slavery, but stopped when it became several pages long. I could have written hubs on Slavery laws in the Holy Roman Empire, Slavery in Scotland, Roman Slavery Laws, The legal dangers of abolitionsism, Modern Slavery and Religion, Mesoamerican Slavery Customs, etc. The presupposition you put on it regarding Christian beliefs twisted everything around. It is almost as if you are fishing for a pre-determined outcome. So in terms of feedback, it would help if there was more focus in the requests and less extreme loading of presuppositions. Going with the movie themes and best movies that convey particular ideas was a good theme. People enjoy things like that. Somehing that would combine ideas is what jokes people use to convey paraticular themes (suffering, punishment, philandering, etc.). It deals with a heavy topic in a light hearted manner.
I hope this helps,
Jeff Murrah
Jeff, i am indeed "fishing" for help on the idea of what makes one person feel superior to another - which is an ever present problem. Today, people feel "better" than others for all sorts of reasons, but i actually wanted to see the extreme of it, that is, what makes one person feel entitled and within some kind of a 'RIGHT' to enslave another. It is really never done lightly, there is always a philosophy or law or religion behind it. And it is that part that fascinates me - the point at which something that is just a vice, a fault in character, becomes legalised and sanctified as the law, that is, how does malice, emptiness, selfishness, greed become legitimised.
So i am fishing for the laws that allowed slavery - and the conditions, that is, religious beliefs which supported and allowed malice and greed to be elevated to something one can be proud of - like owning a hundred slaves or so and feel "good" "rich" "good" Christian" etc.
Can you see my point?
OK, so this is the serious part of me, the child with the endless "why?" questions and i so much hope to find company for this pursuit.
Have you seen the movie "AMISTAD"? It poses the questions about who can be considered human or not, and who can own whom. What do you think?
i will definitely take up your suggestion about lightening up my themes and am most grateful for the trouble you took to analyse my style.
Bozyslawa,
I have not seen Amistad. So I can not address that.
In terms of the origin of the laws regarding slavery, in western civilization, you have to consider the origin of legal systems. Since Judiasm, Christianity, and Islam cite the source of their legal system as their Supreme Diety, that is the source. The same is true of many mesoamerican belief systems. Since I do not know about other Eastern or Oriental systems I can not speak to them. I am puzzled by your focus on Christianity when slavery still continues in Sudan, Mali and other largely Islamic nations and it was the Islamic slave traders that sold many people into the African slave trade or the New England slave traders who owned the slaving ships used in United States. There is also how the English justified thier enslavement of the Irish and Scottish populace.
Since I am not an expert, I can only offer my observations. In addressing the morality of the issue, slavery was often a punishment. At other times it was a consequence of bad choices, or even loosing a war. Even in modern culture, financial bondage related to bad choices continues although it is not called that.
Even the penal system holds to the idea of 'ownership' to some degres. The criminal asserted they were superior to the legal system or another person in committing a crime and then they have to endure the consequences of losing their freedom in order to protect society from further travesties.
As to one person thinking they are superior to others, that is a trait within mankind. Most families, cultures, religions and nations believe they are superior and have a superior way of life to 'others'. Problems arise when the dominant culture in a nation changes and there is a rivalry or contest over which culture will dominate. History is filled with records of cultures vying for domination with each sincerily believing their way was superior. Even when they forced their culture on others, it was justified by saying, it was "in their best interest."
Within the area of history I have studied, the slave owner only had a right to the labor of the slave, not to the body, etc. of the slave. There was also a responsibility for the clothing, feeding, shelter and care of the slaves. Some legal systems gave the owner rights to the slave in terms of their body and life.
I hope this helps.
I am focusing on Christian approach to slavery, because that is the one i know and understand. I am fascinated by the angle of human rights and slavery, whereby the "right" to own another person could only be justified on religious grounds, that is, by alleging that the other, "different" people were not exactly people, not equal, and in fact, it was alleged by the Christians that the "others" had not possessed a "soul" and therefore could not be "God's children" and therefore were in between humans and animals, and could be treated as such.
it is the issue of alleged "superiority" of one human over another and the grounds on which such claims are made that interests me. That is, not the actual issue of slavery, but the philosophy behind it.
While ya'll are getting philasophical. I just wanted to share how much I loved Robocop. I use to love that show as a kid in the 80's. I can still watch the movies over and over till this day! Anyway, carry on!
Breanna,
Thank you for your input. The Robocop series was definitely one focused on revenge. The whole storyline about his transformation to half machine is an excelent metaphor for revenge.
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Bozyslawa says:
2 years ago
Well, what a gold-mine of help and info, i am so thankful! just imagine what you could do if you ventured outside Texas!
if you would be so kind, could you pleasae help me a bit with working out how to find suitable and copiable photos and amazon items - i have not succeeded in making it work by myself, even when trying to follow HELP steps, just a bit slow, i suppose!
do you like my hubs? i love yours!