Jonah Hex (2010)

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  Michael as: Burke
  Cast: Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, Will Arnett
  Director: Jimmy Hayward
  Written by: Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor
  Release Date: June 18, 2010
  Genre: Action / Drama / Fantasy
  Language: English / German / French / Spanish / Russian
  Rated: PG-13
  Runtime: 81 min.

The U.S. military makes a scarred bounty hunter with warrants on his own head an offer he cannot refuse: in exchange for his freedom, he must stop a terrorist who is ready to unleash Hell on Earth.

Trivia & Facts

- Thomas Jane showed interest in playing the part of Jonah Hex to the point of having himself photographed in costume complete with special makeup to recreate the character’s massive facial scarring. Jane would later lend his voice for the character in an animated short film.

- Megan Fox’s last scene was shot 48 hours before the cast & crew attended San Diego Comic Con in 2009.

- Emile Hirsch was considered to play the lead role.

- The sixteenth film released in select D-BOX enabled cinemas, located in the US and Canada. In D-BOX’s words, the motion control technology “adds to the movie’s plot and underlying themes of fear, terror and explosive action by offering realistic sensations during most of the film’s action scenes.”

- Released on the same day with Toy Story 3 (2010). Director Jimmy Hayward was a former animator of Pixar and worked on the first two Toy Story films.

- Lilah, Megan Fox’s character, refers to her mother as Mrs. Black, and says Lilah is short for Tallulah. Tallulah Black is a character who Jonah Hex helped get revenge on the man who raped and disfigured her. She eventually becomes a bounty hunter and on-again, off-again lover of Hex.

Goofs and Errors

Revealing Mistakes: In the still photograph of Lilah (Megan Fox) where a slip of paper is tucked under her corset, you can see her tattoo through the fabric which reads “Brian”.

Revealing Mistakes: As Turnbull is talking to Burke about Eli Whitney, Michael Fassbender’s lips can be seen moving as John Malkovich recites his lines.

Factual Errors: When Turnbull is explaining the origin of the “super weapon” to Burke, he attributes it to Eli Whitney, Senior. In fact, it was Eli Whitney, Junior he is describing.

Factual Errors: When discussing the super weapon with Burke, Turnbull claims Eli Whitney started the Industrial Revolution with the invention of the cotton gin. While that was an important invention of the era, the Industrial Revolution actually started in the United Kingdom.

Anachronisms: The Washington Monument is shown as almost complete. In 1876 the Monument was still only one third complete and construction had been stopped since 1858. Addition construction was authorized during the Centenial but actual construction did not resume until 1879.

Anachronisms: In the shot at the large lake toward the beginning of the movie you can see what looks like a white buoy floating in the background. White plastic floating buoys did not exist in the time of the movie.

Anachronisms: In the Train Hijack scene at the beginning the wooden crates are marked U.S Carbine 30 Cal. Krag-Jorgenson. Krags were not adopted by the U.S. Army until 1894.

Continuity: When the liquid is poured on Jonah’s chest the poultice is not there but is there again in the next shot.

Continuity: After Jonah uses the guns mounted on his saddle they suddenly have the blankets wrapped around them again.

Movie Quotes

Quentin Turnbull: “Explain it to me again, Burke.”
Burke: “There is no explanation. I gave the bastard two barrels in the chest. By all rights he should be as dead as Billy here.”
Quentin Turnbull: “Well, Jonah Hex doesn’t know how to die. He’ll have to be educated.”
Burke: “I have no problem educating the man.”

Burke: “Jonah bloody Hex! I’d know that half-baked piehole anywhere!”

Burke: “You look like a right freak, you know that? Tell me, what’s it like to go through life with a face like that?”
Jonah Hex: “Let me show you!”

Quentin Turnbull: “Magnificent, isn’t it?”
Burke: “It’s bigger than a breadbox, that’s for sure.”
Quentin Turnbull: “Do you know who Eli Whitney was?”
Burke: “I’m a very undereducated man, Mr. Turnbull. Are we talking about Whitney Sr. or Jr.?”
Quentin Turnbull: “Senior. After he invented the cotton gin and started the Industrial Revolution, he went to work for the U.S. military, and pioneered the use of interchangeable parts, firearms, and explosive ordinance, and fairly well singlehandedly invented modern warfare. So, as an exercise they asked him to design a “superweapon.” A nation-killer. And this is what he envisaged, but they never built it, because once they realized its potential, they could not conceive of willingly turning such devastation on their fellow man. But I can. And one week from today… the United States will know hell.”
Burke: “Cheers!”

Burke: “Lovely little orange balls.”
Billy: “They don’t look like much.”
Burke: “Maybe. But they’ll turn the world to dust all the same. Take ‘em, boys. But be careful. Wouldn’t want to drop them.”