The true story of Rufus Buck, played by Idris Elba in The Harder They Fall, is nothing like this fiction.
, his gang threatened, maimed, killed, terrorized and raped, putting him right in the league of a Jesse James.L to R: Maoma July, Sam Sampson, Rufus Buck, Lucky Davis, and Louis Davis, upon their arrest.The fascinating question is “Why?” How do you evolve, in such a short span of time, from an aficionado of reading outlaw pamphlets, to the most feared man in the whole Territory? That’s the story I tried to tell, and it involved far more than just Buck and other outlaws.
It is clear that the real Buck’s young age was important to his story; the two-week long rampage he carried out was that of a teenager, with all the rage and thoughtlessness that implies. The film, on the other hand, shows Elba’s Rufus Buck as a mature, hardcore killer, one doing his business in a principally Black world. But the real-life Buck was just a petty offender prior to his famous rampage. No experienced gunslinger, he also inhabited the opposite of a racially homogenous society.
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