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This is a relatively new movie at netflix with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson. I can't comment on it because I'm watching it now. I'm about 30 minutes in now and near as I can figure out Woody Harreldson and Kevin Coster are old Texas Rangers "That always get their man". But, the Texas rangers were disbanded years ago because of all the dead bodies of men "That they always got". So, this is where all this begins. This is actually a very well done movie. I think the research about this movie was excellent because they depict the Texas Rangers a lot like people were that I knew in the 1950s who were still alive and just like the people you see in this movie.
Someone who was 20s in the 1930s would be in their 40s in the 1950s when I was a child or if they were in their 50s in the 1930s they would be in their 70s in the 1950s. However, living to 70 wasn't very common until at least the 1950s. Some people did it but it wasn't very common and many or most people in the 1950s wore false teeth if they were above 40 years of age. So, what you see in people often in their 70s now was like what people in their 40s and 50s were like during the 1950s. It's true that if you were educated enough and had the best food and traveled all over likely you might live to be 70s to 90s then. But, if you were in the lower 50% of income and education you were lucky to make it to even 50 or 60 in the 1950s. This is what I saw as a child which was a whole lot of people dying young or at any age when they didn't have to just mostly because of ignorance more than anything else then in the 1950s.
This changed a lot during the 1970s when boys went to college that didn't want to die in the Viet Nam war from the draft and the girls all followed them to marry a "College Boy". This is how my generation actually got so very very educated that their children then did too for the most part and so on and so on.
Interesting note: The Texas Rangers were disbanded long before Bonnie and Clyde but then were reformulated after this incident of two ex-Texas Rangers getting Bonnie and Clyde in Louisiana with the help of local Louisiana Law enforcement. Sometimes the only way to get justice it seems in some cases is to "machine gun down" the lawless (at least this appears to be true in the 1930s and before).
Woody recounts as the character a time when in one night they had to shoot 54 people on a raid. The law enforcement were polite and lost a deputy every day until they just decided to wipe out the bandits on that occasian and gunned down 54 during the night when most of them were drunk and partying. But, he said this group had burned down many ranches and killed and raped and pillaged before it came to this. So, this group had already murdered a dozen people or more and were brought to account by the Texas Rangers.
It's likely all the stories in this movie are true by the way. It's part of the kind of research that would go into filming something like this if Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson were involved.
Someone who was 20s in the 1930s would be in their 40s in the 1950s when I was a child or if they were in their 50s in the 1930s they would be in their 70s in the 1950s. However, living to 70 wasn't very common until at least the 1950s. Some people did it but it wasn't very common and many or most people in the 1950s wore false teeth if they were above 40 years of age. So, what you see in people often in their 70s now was like what people in their 40s and 50s were like during the 1950s. It's true that if you were educated enough and had the best food and traveled all over likely you might live to be 70s to 90s then. But, if you were in the lower 50% of income and education you were lucky to make it to even 50 or 60 in the 1950s. This is what I saw as a child which was a whole lot of people dying young or at any age when they didn't have to just mostly because of ignorance more than anything else then in the 1950s.
This changed a lot during the 1970s when boys went to college that didn't want to die in the Viet Nam war from the draft and the girls all followed them to marry a "College Boy". This is how my generation actually got so very very educated that their children then did too for the most part and so on and so on.
Interesting note: The Texas Rangers were disbanded long before Bonnie and Clyde but then were reformulated after this incident of two ex-Texas Rangers getting Bonnie and Clyde in Louisiana with the help of local Louisiana Law enforcement. Sometimes the only way to get justice it seems in some cases is to "machine gun down" the lawless (at least this appears to be true in the 1930s and before).
Woody recounts as the character a time when in one night they had to shoot 54 people on a raid. The law enforcement were polite and lost a deputy every day until they just decided to wipe out the bandits on that occasian and gunned down 54 during the night when most of them were drunk and partying. But, he said this group had burned down many ranches and killed and raped and pillaged before it came to this. So, this group had already murdered a dozen people or more and were brought to account by the Texas Rangers.
It's likely all the stories in this movie are true by the way. It's part of the kind of research that would go into filming something like this if Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson were involved.
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