A good portion of this is embelishment and tall tales but that aside it would still be an incredibly impressive story. I’m sorry…dodging bullets? Is that before or after he told Moses to build the Ark?

These sort of tall tales are not uncommon for old lawmen as most tried to bolster their reputation in hopes that people would simply surrender rather than fight. I think part of the problem with doing a film about him would be you would have to cut out a good deal of the embelishment to keep the story believable, however since the story is about a black man any alteration to the narrative could very easily lead to charges of racism so there is a lot of risk to it. Frank Hamer, also a legendary lawman only he was white, had similarly over the top often outlandish claims but people did not hesitate to call his BS because there was no fear of charges of racism.

I disagree. It was the work of both a man and a father. As parents, of course, we tend to love our children without condition, and to want the best for them, and to make the best possible life for them. But there comes a point at which we can do no more for our children; that we must let them go; that we must let them lie in the bed they have made, and let them suffer the pain of their mistakes. While it hurts to let them suffer, to shield them from that suffering is to inflict an even greater wrong.

I do not think that Bass Reeves took any pleasure in arresting his son. However, given that his son had murdered his own wife in a fit of jealous rage, his son had already fallen from the path of the righteous man. When a man falls, it is better to let him fall and hit bottom as quickly as possible, because the longer he is prevented from hitting the bottom, the farther he will fall. The sooner they get done falling, the sooner they can start climbing up again. Reeves’ son had only one death on his conscience; if Reeves had flinched from his duty as a lawman and failed to apprehend his son, how many others would his son have killed? Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you let them get away with things, and in fact sometimes it means that you are even harder with them than with others. Letting someone get away with something is, I think, the opposite of love. And nothing, not even the blood between a father and son, can excuse the death of another. The younger Reeves may not have been entirely in his right mind when he killed his wife; he may have committed what the French reasonably call “a crime of passion.” But nevertheless, a crime was committed, and the man responsible needed to answer for it.

“He had to arrest his own son for murder.” (quote:wikipedia)

An example of a man, but not of a father.