who is Billy Jack?

Answer 1

BILLY JACK IS TOM LAUGHLIN.

LAUGHLIN IS A WRITER, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, AND STAR OF THE BILLY JACK FILM SERIES. HE IS ALSO AN EXPERT IN JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY AND HAS WRITTEN MANY BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT AND ALSO ON CANCER.

BILLY JACK APPEARED IN FOUR COMPLETED FILMS:

BORN LOSERS 1967

BILLY JACK 1971

TRIAL OF BILLY JACK 1974

BILLY JACK GOES TO WASHINGTON 1976

FOR COMPLETE INFO ON TOM LAUGHLIN / BILLY JACK GO TO:


http://www.billyjack.com

LAUGHLIN IS CURRENTLY TRYING TO RAISE MONEY TO MAKE ANOTHER FILM. IF YOU GO TO HIS WEBSITE ABOVE YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE.

I SHOULD ALSO NOTE HE WAS THE VERY FIRST INDEPENDENT FILM MAKER.

BEFORE LAUGHLIN, ALL MOVIES WERE MADE BY MOVIE STUDIOS. HE BROKE THROUGH THE STUDIO SYSTEM AND DEFIED THE SYSTEM BY FILMING AND RELEASING HIS OWN FILMS.

THE FIRST TWO FILMS HE MADE WERE NOT BILLY JACK FILMS...THEY WERE THE PROPER TIME AND THE YOUNG SINNER.

BILLY JACK IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY. WHEN HE WANTED TO MARRY HIS WIFE SHE TOOK HIM TO MEET HER PARENTS....SHE LIVED ON AN INDIAN RESERVATION IN WINNER, SOUTH DAKOTA. LAUGHLIN COULD NOT BELIEVE THE RACISIM AND BIGOTRY TOWARDS THE INDIANS BY THE WHITE PEOPLE....HE WROTE DOWN EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED THAT WEEKEND WITH ONE DIFFERENCE...HE CREATED THE BILLY JACK CHARACTER TO DEFEND THE INDIANS. HE WAS SO OUTRAGED BY WHAT HE SAW THAT HE DECIDED TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT IT AND HE MOVED TO HOLLY WOOD TO DO IT. AND HE DID!!!!

BY THE WAY, TOM LAUGHLIN RAN FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1992.

Answer 2

Who Played Billy Jack

Answer 3

The Legend Of Billy Jack

Answer 4

OMG! If you don't know about the Billy Jack movies, you really are missing something. He was like a superhero for a bunch of kids that lived in a school in the southwest. He was of American Indian descent, but could do martial arts like Bruse Lee. You've got to see those movies!!!!

Answer 5

Billy Jack Haynes. Actor. Billy Jack played a native American green beret in Vietnam in one of his movies. He just kicked so much butt it is pitiful!

Answer 6

Billy Jack is a half indian/half white man who knows a little martial arts.

Answer 7

He was an ex army soldier, karate expert, friend ot the hippies dude who kicked all those Redneck's asses back in the early 70's. I love that movie, Billy Jack!

Answer 8

Tom MacLaughlin

Answer 9

it made me cry and i am a tough 63 year old man thank you for billy jack

Answer 10

Billy Jack is a Native American Green Beret Vietnam War veteran, hapkido master, and gunslinger. The character made his début in The Born Losers (1967), a so-called "biker film" about a motorcycle gang terrorizing a California town; Billy Jack rises to the occasion to defeat the gang by defending from their wrath a college student who has evidence against them for gang rapes. The first film was considered the typical drive-in theater fare of the period, described by Entertainment Insiders reviewer Rusty White as "pure exploitation, but with something extra."[1]

This changes with the second film, Billy Jack, in which the hero must defend the hippie-themed Freedom School and its students from the machinations of racists. The school is organized by Jean Roberts, played by Laughlin's wife, Delores Taylor, who also appears in each subsequent film.

The movies go to some length to explain how the anti-establishment pacifist philosophy of the Freedom School can be reconciled with the martial arts and gunplay featured prominently in the plots of the films. Billy Jack hit on a potent formula with this message in 1971, and the film went on to become one of the highest grossing of its time, and remains among the top 100 when the list is adjusted for inflation.

Billy Jack helped launch the martial arts craze that swept the United States in the 1970s. It was arguably the first American film to feature a non-Asian lead character who used the martial arts as his primary weapon of defeating the villians. The style of martial arts used in the film is the Korean art of Hapkido. Though Laughlin, a Brown Belt in the art, performed many of his own fighting stunts, it was Hapkido Master Bong Soo Han, who performed the advanced techniques.

Two controversial scenes were noted by filmgoers and reviewers. In one, Jean (Taylor) is raped by Bernard (David Roya), the corrupt son of the county's most successful (and ruthless) businessman. The scene includes a wide-angle establishing shot of Jean tied to stakes on the desert floor, nude. In the second scene, as Bernard sits with a woman in his car at a lake, he uses a switchblade to cut her bra and demands she take it "all the way off." Billy and Jean arrive, rescue the woman ("Will you look?" she asks Billy, to which he responds, "Probably."), and force Bernard to drive his Corvette into the lake.

Billy Jack's wardrobe (black T-shirt, blue denim jacket, blue jeans, and a black hat with a beadwork band) would become nearly as iconic as the character. The film's theme song, "One Tin Soldier" by Coven, became a Top 40 hit in 1971, and featured the chorus:

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowin' come the judgment day
On the bloody morning after, one tin soldier rides away
Later films in the series featured increasingly political plots and tended to rely less on the martial arts and more on the message, which quickly lost its resonance with increasingly apolitical audiences of the 1970s (the second sequel never made it into theatres).