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After Billy Jack in sentenced to four years in prison for the "involuntary manslaughter" of the first film, the Freedom School expands and flourishes under the guidance of Jean Roberts. The utopian existence of the school is characterized by everything ranging from "yoga sports" to muckracking journalism. The diverse student population airs scathing political exposes on their privately owned television station. The narrow-minded townspeople have different ideas about their brand of liberalism. Billy Jack is released and things heat up for the school. Students are threatened and abused and the Native Americans in the neighboring village are taunted and mistreated. After Billy Jack undergoes a vision quest, the governor and the police plot to permanently put an end to their liberal shenanigans, leaving it up to Billy Jack to save the day.
This movie was long,and it was very powerful for its time in both relation to the Native American movement as well as the anti war movement that was common when the film took place and when it first hit the big screen. If you like either of the 2 topics above then you will probably like the movie. All I can say is I am proud to have it and I was proud to watch it.
Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) spends four years in prison for his killing of a sheriff's deputy. During that time, the Freedom School, a hippie commune led by Billy's lover Jean (Delores Taylor) begins to prosper, releasing newspapers and TV that stick it to the man, caring for underprivileged and abused children, and no doubt doing lots of drugs (oh, I'm sorry - drug use is against the rules there). Billy helps the Indians and the Freedom School stick up to the crooked landowner Posner (Riley Hill), who ultimately calls out the police and National Guard, with tragic (I guess) results. "The Trial of Billy Jack" is an atrocious film that has to be seen to be believed. On the other hand, that may be too high of a price. While it maintains some of the camp value of its predecessors, any enjoyment, unintentional or otherwise, is done in by the fact that the movie is THREE FRICKING HOURS LONG!!! The movie's pretentious, overwrought and hilariously un-ironic political and social content isn't the problem here; it's the length, and boy does it drag. The first Billy Jack had a certain purity of form. Clocking in at about two hours, it was a reasonably entertaining film which managed to be watchable, with the camp cheesiness and overwrought hippie world-view only enhancing the experience. The movie could never reconcile its pleas for pacifism with the appeal of Billy Jack's martial arts heroics, but it hardly mattered. The overlong guerrilla theater routines by Howard Hesseman and the interminable music numbers were the biggest flaws, but Laughlin managed to keep himself in check. No such luck here, as Trial of Billy Jack drips with a potent strain of narcissism. Laughlin's film is filled to the brim of self-indulgence, padding the film's running time with self-indulgence and smug posturing. At least a third of the movie is lengthy, droning performances of atrocious excuses for "music", by people with no talent (most egregiously, Laughlin's daughter Teresa). Billy Jack is continually celebrated throughout as a paragon of virtue, albeit a somewhat flawed one, sung about and worshiped by the freedom school kids - yeah, nice humility, Tom. And of course, Laughlin's smug self-assurance that we'll agree with our heroes and their noxious political viewpoint is rather off-putting as well, but he gets around that problem - sort of. The politics are by their nature laughable, accepting and endorsing every bit of radical, leftist conspiracy jargon as concrete fact. But the way Laughlin paints the issues is what makes it truly offensive. He juxtaposes the film's climactic massacre with real life school shootings like Kent State, portraying them as premeditated acts of mass murder by the National Guard. The villains are bigoted, greedy, harrumphing straw-men, not even convincing as caricatures. Laughlin and Co. seem convinced that they're so important that they're being investigated by the FBI, CIA, and the US government at large for their "scorching exposes" (Laughlin would, in real-life, use this excuse for the failure of his later Billy Jack Goes to Washington). The journalist interviewing Jean repeats leftist conspiracy propaganda as known fact. The final massacre is so over-the-top, it's simultaneously appalling and laughable; the idea that someone would actually hold this viewpoint, however, is what's truly appalling here (although, not as laughable as believing that thousands of rounds fired by trained Guardsmen could only result in three deaths in a huge crowd). This is offensive, not because of the politics, but because of the dishonesty; it's easy to paint everyone opposed to you as a brutal, vicious Fascist, and thus (in theory, anyway) renders any possible argument against the film moot. Like, you can't dislike this movie unless you're a paid shill, Man. It's a childish argument, and it says a lot about Laughlin that it's his primary defense against criticism. And we STILL have the problem that Billy Jack is kicking ass is pretty much antithetical to the peace and love message we're supposed to be getting. Okay, the movie has some camp value. The lengthy Indian vision scenes - where Billy Jack confronts his "spirit double" and a cave full of demons - are pretty darn funny, in a trippy sort of way. A lot of the dialogue and acting is pathetically bad (I love the scene where a hippie suggests that the Freedom School "BOMB THE HELL OUT OF THEM!"). But is so pompously self-important throughout - and so LONG - that it isn't even enjoyable. Two hours in, you'll be pining for the original film, with the "epic" karate fight in the lawn, Howard Hesseman's rambling improv comedy, and, yes, Coven's camp classic "One Tin Soldier" - and you'll realize that there's still an hour to go! But overall, this is a film that even the biggest bad movie buff should be leery of approaching. 0/10

Wounded and hospitalized, Jean Roberts (<a href="/name/nm0852255/">Delores Taylor</a>), a teacher at Freedom School, an alternative school for troubled youth on a Native American reservation in Arizona, describes to reporters and writers (in flashbacks) the events that followed the arrest, trial, and release of half-Indian and ex-Green Beret Billy Jack (<a href="/name/nm0490871/">Tom Laughlin</a>), whose attempts to prevent the abuse of Freedom School's students resulted in several deaths. After serving four years of a 5-15 year sentence for involuntary manslaughter, Billy returned to the reservation and to Freedom School, but the troubles started up again. The Trial of Billy Jack is the third movie in the Billy Jack series, preceded by <a href="/title/tt0061420/">The Born Losers (1967)</a> (1967) and <a href="/title/tt0066832/">Billy Jack (1971)</a> (1971) and followed by <a href="/title/tt0075754/">Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977)</a> (1977) and <a href="/title/tt3406608/">The Return of Billy Jack (1986)</a> (uncompleted). The screenplay was written by independent film-maker Tom Laughlin (under the pen name Frank Christina) and his wife Delores Taylor (under the pen name Teresa Christina). While Jean is on the phone with the governor, the military surrounding the school open fires on the students. Jean rushes outside, screaming for the military to stop, but she is shot in the abdomen. Danny (<a href="/name/nm0093066/">Michael Bolland</a>) is shot in the back. When Carol (<a href="/name/nm0446893/">Teresa Kelly</a>) rushes to Danny, she is also shot. Suddenly, a stream of torches is seen approaching the school. The local Indians place themselves between the school and military, reminding them that the school is under reservation protection and that the military will have to shoot them first. Then an odd thing happens. Bunches of the military begin throwing down their guns and joining the Indians. Meanwhile, Billy lies near death from his bullet wounds. He is gifted with a vision from the maiden (<a href="/name/nm0251096/">Sandra Ego</a>) who informs him that he has not yet reached level four and must return, along with Carol, to carry on the teachings. Jean considers closing the school, but Billy and the students convince Jean not to give up. In the final scenes, Jean and Carol, both in wheelchairs, are wheeled into a church where all the students pay tribute to Jean. As the camera pans away from the church, a postscript reads 'Some may feel this picture is too violent, but the real messages which inspired this fictionalized version were a thousand-fold more violent for those innocent people who were its victims. Rather than direct anger at this re-creation, please channel your energy toward those officials who either ordered, condoned, or failed to take action against these events and perhaps toward ourselves for also turning our backs and letting such events occur unchallenged. All we are saying is...give peace a chance. ' When confronted with a slap, a Level 1 person will respond with a similar punch, showing that he is immediately pulled down to an animal level, reacting on instinct. A Level 2 person does not react with brute violence but easily forgets what he was doing and so is pulled away from his own center. A Level 3 person cannot be swayed by another person to react, thus he is his own person. How a person at Level 4 would react to a slap is not disclosed. a5c7b9f00b

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