Word: pusser
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Since the film is loosely based on a true story of good triumphing over evil, Johnston was also sensitive to maintaining the integrity of the legendary Buford Pusser story and obliged himself to truthfully adapt the film after personally meeting with the Pusser family...
...according to Johnson. He insists that Walking Tall cannot encourage unjustified violence because its main character, Pusser, had a legitimate reason for his actions...
Johnson claims that Pusser actually showed great restraint in his actions. “He was always a reluctant hero—he was pushed to those circumstances,” he says...
...familiar tropes: fiddles and steel guitars, drawling humor and tight harmonies, a pounding melody echoing Neil Young's Love Is a Rose and some "yeahs" filched from Ray Charles. There's even a snatch of rap, square-dance style, as it might be rendered by a cheerleader at Buford Pusser High...
...seems to lack full-blown heroes, but Tennessee's Buford Pusser tried in his own inimitable fashion to fill the bill. Pusser did not like what he saw when he came home to rural McNairy County from the Marines in the early '60s. He got himself elected sheriff and began a six-year crusade against moonshining, prostitution and gambling. Some opposed his methods, which occasionally bent the law in the course of upholding it, but none doubted his courage. He survived seven attempts on his life, including a 1967 ambush in which his wife was killed and half...
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