The Foreshadowing For This Side Mission Was So Subtle I Never Caught It Until Now - RDR 2

I never realized it until just on my recent playthrough rockstar foreshadowing this missions end right from the first few seconds it begins

[almightycrumpets]

actually theres even more foreshadowing to this event; theres a book you can find called “Wild West Heroes No. 132: Mexican Ballad of Blood” in the bedroom at Downes Ranch, about a younger Calloway in his prime. It is mentioned by Landon Ricketts that hed heard some of the men Calloway had killed down in Mexico were shot in the back, to which Boy Calloway claimed they deserved it. Just goes to show he was a man without honor, as it wasnt a one time slip and the overall foreshadowing of his character

[jeangentry]

To be fair, each legendary gun slinger Arthur runs into despises Boy Calloway and calls him a coward. Black Belle herself states that Calloway ran from fights and that what is popular isn't always truth. The game practically shouts at you that this was gonna happen.

[ajra]

I kinda wish that if Arthur completed side missions like this, the camp would comment on it like.

Arthur: Hey, Dutch. The name Jim Boy Calloway mean anythin' to you?
Dutch: Can't say it does. Should it?
Arthur: He's a famous gunslinger apparently. Some tenderfoot from back east is writing a book about him. Asked me to help him get it done for half the proceeds.
Dutch: Well, so long as you're gettin' somethin' out of it. Maybe they'll tell your story one day.
Arthur: Tch. Who'd be interested in a fool like me?

[drifterodysseus]

This mission is a bit of a nod to the movie Unforgiven, where there's a writer following a gunslinger trying to write a book about him. Without trying to spoil too much of the plot, the movie ends up showing the writer guy how reality is always more crude than the fantasies read in fiction.

[InSpades]

I like how Arthur gives the pragmatic and more accurate view of gunslinging shooting em in the back, even finds billy midnight shooting the guy in his sleep to be the sensible thing to do and all the other stuff in the dime novels is mostly just hogwash.

[corey-bird]

This game is a veritable playable Coen brothers film.

[Damianid]

There's some comments here saying that "In Calloway's time shooting a man in the back is considered dishonourable, and in Arthur's time shooting a a man in the back is necesarry" and i'm not disagreeing with that.
Time really is changing, the wild west is no longer wild, shooting a man in the front, in the back, in his sleep, makes no difference you're still killing a man. Arthur knows this and he always hated the romantization of Mexican standoff being an honourable duel between 2 men is just a bunch of horse deuce.

[mariossoultates]

I always wondered why the mission is called "the noblest of men and a woman"

[roninn]

This Strangers mission was based on characters from Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven

Jim Boy Calloway's character was based off of English Bob (played by Richard Harris) and the author off of W.W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinek)

[komandorshepard]

0:45 This moment looks oddly familiar.

[antonironstag]

Back in Calloways time, shooting a man in the back was dishonourable. In Arthur's time, shooting a man in the back was sometimes necessary. The world really was changin

[WhiteRaven]

Miyamoto Musashi would even be proud of this dialog.

[pxmavr]

I just love how many of us are getting back I to red dead to run more playthroughs & just find hidden encounters we didn’t realize 💪🏽

[OscarOffTheCuff]

Just wanna say I appreciate your channel. Going in depth like this with these masterpieces is interesting as fuck.

[Piemantherd]

Went out like Hosea too. Lucky enough to make it to old age but the world has no use for old gunslingers

[dilloncrowe]

I always felt bad for that Marshall when he got shot... he kinda reminded me of hosea, for some reason.

[kakashikage]

I saw a comment that said, “Back in Calloway’s time, shooting a man in the back was dishonorable, but in Arthur’s time, it was sometimes necessary” and it’s true, because Arthur was going to do it too. If you pay attention, when Jim Milton & Edgar Ross approach Arthur & Jack when they’re fishing, as they’re walking away, Arthur starts reaching for his gun. He was about to shoot them both in the back, but he stopped when Jack came up to him. It’s so subtle you could barely notice it. I can’t take credit for this discovery either, I saw it on another Video breakdown.

[HunterEQGtribute]

I never caught that either! Nice catch man. 👍🏼

[AylaBelli]

Okay I usually keep subtitles on but often don't even read them, I always though Arthur said "Folks who need shootin, I try shootin'em back"
I interpreted it as "I only shoot people who are trying to kill me". I never noticed him say "I try and shoot in the back"

[chrishilton]

Arthur Morgan the man with no name 🤠🇺🇸