![]() ![]() Buck didn’t have the same power and notoriety in the real Old West as he did in Netflix's 2021 movie, plus he was only a teenager, had no relations to Nat Love, nor a vendetta for his own father. In real life, Idris Elba’s character did truly lead the Rufus Buck gang from 1895-1896, a group of five men who robbed country stores and killed several people during their short crime spree. The opening scene in The Harder They Fall shows Rufus murdering Nat’s mother and father, only for the movie’s ending to reveal they were half-siblings, and Rufus was getting revenge on their father. The Harder They Fall depicts Rufus Buck as a brutal gang leader and brief prisoner, having gone into the criminal life after years of being abused by his father. A decade later, The Harder They Fall's real historical figure decided to quit the cowboy life, where he lived the rest of his life in California as a security guard and courier (via ). He became an excellent marksman and cowboy, with his most famous exploit being an escape from a Pima tribe that captured him, though he noted that the tribe wanted to adopt him into their group due to their respect for his heritage. Love had a gift for breaking horses, so he headed west to work cattle drives. The Harder They Fall also doesn’t mention that Nat Love was born into slavery before being emancipated, having been taught to read (which was against the law) by his father. In real life, Jonathan Majors' character was known for taking part in the legendary Black cowboy cattle drives in the 1870-80s, where his run-ins with death and gunslinger were based on confrontations with Indigenous tribes. For starters, Love’s exploits as a cowboy didn’t begin until well after the Civil War ended and he was never actually an outlaw or gang leader. Here’s how much of the movie accurately portrays what happened to the characters and the events it explores.Īside from Nat Love being a notorious cowboy in the Old West, the events in The Harder They Fall aren’t too faithful to his real life. The overall story is original and crafted by Jeymes Samuel, but many events are inspired by occurrences from the characters' real lives. ![]() While The Harder They Fall’s characters typically come from real figures, most were active as outlaws or cowboys in very different times, so the gangs overlapping in the film is fictional. Related: Every Fall 2021 Movie & TV Show Coming To Netflix While the specific story being told in Jeymes Samuel’s movie doesn’t necessarily come from a corresponding historic event, the experiences of The Harder They Fall’s characters are inspired by real occurrences and the lives of Black cowboys and outlaws in the Old West. ![]() This isn’t a revisionist history like Django Unchained it’s taking the true stories of 19th-century American Black cowboys and outlaws and placing them in a fictionalized scenario. In "I Dreamt I Was in Heaven," famous, historical figures dance with fictional characters to create a turn-of-the-century tapestry of violence and innocence, love and betrayal, butchery and grace-mirroring and chafing against the backdrop of a burgeoning United States, and a disappearing American West.The Harder They Fall largely depicts fictional events, with nearly every character in the Netflix movie is based on a real-life historical figure. With his angel to guide him, he sets out to do the impossible with a missionary's zeal, a child's anticipation, and a grown man's violence. Rufus is guided by a sense of religious mission, by heavenly visions made manifest in the form of the extraordinary, 13 year-old Theodosia Swain. Against this background, the teenaged Rufus Buck Gang embarked on their mad quest to reclaim Indian lands from US settlement. Parker's judicial tyranny over 74,000 square miles of Indian Territory was coming to an end. government continued to co-opt Indian land for settlement. In lawless Indian Territory the end of an era approached. Parker, notorious half-black, half-Indian outlaw Cherokee Bill, one-quarter Cherokee "gentlemen bandit" Henry Starr, relative of the notorious Belle Starr, and the worst of them all, half-black, half-Indian Rufus Buck, collided during the summer of 1895. Based on the true story, this is a tale of how real-life figures "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Their goal was to take back Indian lands. ![]() Based on the shocking true story: In the waning days of Indian Territory, the multi-racial, teenaged Rufus Buck Gang embarked on a vicious, childish, and deadly 13-day rampage that shocked even this lawless place. ![]()
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