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| “ | You really thought you'd win, huh, Django? Well, here I am, still fighting the war. A war that will never end. Are you praying? I figure that's the least a man can do when he's about to die. You can't make The Sign of The Cross with your hands broken! So, I'm going to help you. In the name of The Father... [shoots] ...and of The Son... [shoots again] ...and of The Holy... [shoots again] ...Spirit!... [shoots his last shot until Django kills him and his men] | „ |
| ~ Major Jackson's final speech to Django before him and his men are killed by Django, Italian dub. |
Major Jackson is one of the two main antagonists (alongside General Hugo Rodríguez) of the 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film Django. He is an ex-Confederate officer and the sadistic leader of the Red Shirts, a white supremacist Klan feuding with Mexican Revolutionaries and terrorizing local minorities. He is also the man responsible for murdering the wife of Django, a former Union Army soldier.
He was portrayed by the late Eduardo Fajardo.
Personality[]
Major Jackson is shown to be a cold, heartless racist. His immense hatred for racial minorities such as Mexicans drive him to casually commit unspeakable crimes, such as gunning local minorities down for fun and waging a bloody gang war against General Hugo's Mexican revolutionaries. He is calm, calculated and rarely loses his temper, and uses his fearful demeanour to dominate the ghost town and residents such as Nathaniel.
Jackson also develops intense animosity between himself and Django, a former Union Army soldier, for killing Django's wife while he was away. When he finally has Django at a disadvantage, Major Jackson smugly attempts to drag out killing Django while shooting at his wife's grave, spending his final moments as the sadistic sociopath he has always been.
History[]
In the beginning of the movie, Major Jackson's henchmen try to kill a woman named María by crucifying her atop a burning cross. However, Django witnesses them preparing it and saves María by killing them all. Django and María travel to a saloon in a ghost town kept under Jackson's thumb in a protection racket. It is explained by the bartender Nathaniel that Jackson's Red Shirts are in a conflict with General Hugo's revolutionaries.
After kidnapping and cruelly killing Mexican locals by using them as target practice, Major Jackson and his Red Shirts arrive in town to obtain protection money from Nathaniel. Django shoots Jackson's men after one of them harassed a prostitute and challenges Jackson to return with all of his accomplices. When Django goads him to return with extra protection, Jackson promises to come back to town with forty-eight men at his command to deal with Django before leaving.
Jackson returns with his entire Klan, but Django brandishes a machine gun he kept hidden in his coffin and guns down almost all of the Red Shirts. Django allows a terrified Major Jackson to escape, figuring that Jackson remaining alive can allow Django to keep pitting him against General Hugo's gang. Due to Jackson murdering Django's wife several years prior to the events of the film, Django reveals that he also spared Jackson so that his vengeance against Jackson can wait another time.
When General Hugo and his revolutionaries kill Jackson's spy Brother Jonathan, Django joins Hugo and convinces them to raid Fort Charriba, a military fort under Major Jackson's command. They steal Jackson's gold and massacre many of his men. Jackson chases them but is forced to stop after the revolutionaries cross the American border. After Hugo and the revolutionaries break Django's hands when he double-crosses the gang by stealing the gold, the revolutionaries are massacred by Major Jackson and a posse of soldiers under his command.
Jackson arrives at the saloon with the remnants of his Red Shirts and, after learning that Django is waiting for him in the town's cemetery, he kills Nathaniel, but misses the chance to kill María because she was hiding. Major Jackson and his men arrive at the cemetery to find Django hiding behind the grave of his late wife. Jackson proceeds to taunt and toy with Django, urging him to pray for his death. He sadistically shoots at the cross-shaped grave to make the sign of the cross when he sees that Django's hands are broken. But before Jackson he can fire his last shot at him, Django guns down Jackson and the Red Shirts by fanning his gun against the cross with his shattered hands, killing Jackson and his gang members.
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Trivia[]
- The Major's men wear red scarves over their faces to hide the fact that they were left with only the ugliest ones, who were deemed not menacing enough.