In these early movements, [Robert] Redford plays Jeremiah with some slapstick, including a booming, almost biblical manner of speech. After his goodbye with Bear Claw, Jeremiah encounters an isolated cabin that’s been attacked by Blackfoot warriors. A woman mutters to her children as if they’re alive, and a young boy (Josh Albee) has been rendered silent by trauma. Approaching them, Jeremiah tells the woman, “The Indians will not bother you now, on account of… you are touched. They will be afraid,” and later tells the boy, “I will call you Caleb!” and neither instance of chest-puffed bluster is met with a response. It’s as if he’s playing the role of a legendary figure.
"Jeremiah Johnson: The Great Movie Behind the Nodding Man GIF"; Harrison Chute, collider.com; Dec. 21, 2022.
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