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Jeremiah Johnson pretends to be the saga of a tall, tough mountain man who takes tetuge items civilization in the Utah wilderness Sydney Pollack, hailed for They Should Houses Don't They". directed: he cast his old friend. Robert Redford, in the title tole Redford comes to the mountains a young creenborn, enters the tutelage of an old grizzly hunter named Bear Claw, and gets roped into wilderness domesticity when an Indian code of honor forces a wife upon him. Civilization does catch up: a cavalry detachment enlists him to help rescue a party of settlers trapped high...
...Pollack admitted as much in an interviews shortly before the film's Boston premiere. His hero, he told me then, is "a man who turns his back on civilization because he wants to find a place where it's totally unnecessary for him to conform to a code of ethics...
...Says Pollack, "I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth but I don't want to believe it is..." Like Redford, who built his own resort and personal retreat in the same Wasatch range where Jeremiah Johnson was filmed. Pollack has a vacation "cabin" with running water, heat, and a dishwater...
...Pollack feels his film crew struggled with the wilderness much as Jeremiah Johnson did. Jeremiah Johnson's flight from civilization emerges in Pollack's telling, from a battle between cinematic technology and the Utah high country. "Meanings," he says, ought to emerge from the "mood and feel" of a film. The primary fascination which directing holds for him is with "the technical aspects of shooting, what certain lenses can do, how each shot...
...newsmen. Indeed many reporters, barred from the climactic scene, hesitated when word of the captives' safe release first came from the Bavarian state police, who were responsible for security at the airport in Fürstenfeldbruck. A few journalists were apparently misled when a local pub owner, Ludwig Pollack, passed a rumor near the airport gate that the terrorists had been seized; from this it was inferred that the hostages were safe. But it was only after receiving confirmation from Conrad Ahlers, official spokesman for the West German government, that many reporters sent firm-and wrong -stories...