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Narrator: He was ashamed of his persiflage, his boasting, his pretensions of courage and ruthlessness; he was sorry about his cold-bloodedness, his dispassion, his inability to express what he now believed was the case- that he truly regretted killing Jesse, that he missed the man as much as anybody and wished his murder hadn't been necessary. Even as he circulated his saloon he knew that the smiles disappeared when he passed by. He received so many menacing letters that he could read them without any reaction except curiosity. He kept to his apartment all day, flipping over playing cards, looking at his destiny in every King and Jack. Edward O'Kelly came up from Bachelor at one P.M. on the 8th. He had no grand scheme. No strategy. No agreement with higher authorities. Nothing but a vague longing for glory, and a generalized wish for revenge against Robert Ford. Edward O'Kelly would be ordered to serve a life sentence in the Colorado Penitentiary for second degree murder. Over seven thousand signatures would eventually be gathered in a petition asking for O'Kelly's release, and in 1902, Governor James B. Ullman would pardon the man. There would be no eulogies for Bob, no photographs of his body would be sold in sundries stores, no people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege, no biographies would be written about him, no children named after him, no one would ever pay twenty-five cents to stand in the rooms he grew up in. The shotgun would ignite, and Ella Mae would scream, but Robert Ford would only lay on the floor and look at the ceiling, the light going out of his eyes before he could find the right words.

Dyk ner i den gripande berättelsen om ’Mordet på Jesse James av ynkryggen Robert Ford’, en film som skildrar den legendariska laglöse Jesse James, mästerligt porträtterad av Brad Pitt, och hans oväntade fall orsakat av den ambitiöse Robert Ford, spelad av en oförglömlig Casey Affleck. I 1880-talets USA, där Jesse James är en folkhjälte likt Robin Hood, efterlyst i tio stater, introduceras vi till den okände Robert Ford. Ford, en 19-årig man brinnande av ambition, beslutar sig för att göra sitt namn känt på det mest dramatiska sättet möjligt. Denna film är inte bara en visuell fest för ögonen, tack vare dess stämningsfulla cinematografi, utan också en djupdykning i teman som berömmelse, besatthet och svek. En av filmens mest minnesvärda repliker, ’Jag kan inte räkna alla lögner som har spridits om mig’, ekar känslan av den missförstådda hjälten och den tragiska skurken, vilket gör filmen till en omedelbar klassiker. Med stjärnspäckad skådespelarinsats inklusive Sam Shepard, är ’Mordet på Jesse James av ynkryggen Robert Ford’ en film som inte bara filmälskare, utan alla som uppskattar en berättelse väl berättad, bör se. Missa inte denna episka skildring av en av de mest fascinerande händelserna i amerikansk historia.