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Movie: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 14:55:30

My husband found this in the five dollar bin and brought it home. I had never seen it before. The situation the town is in seems a lot like what neighborhoods might face in the future as far as a small group terrorizing a larger one. Especially if no one has courage to stand up to them.
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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 15:29:54

Another GREAT Eastwood flick. Still better, though, "The Outlaw Josey Wales", and of course the BEST of them ALL, Pale Rider. My avatar of course :-)

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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby TWilliam » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 17:12:40

"What did you say your name was again?"

"I didn't."
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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby eastbay » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 17:31:20

Take a few minutes and scroll through a few Eastwood scenes on google video or youtube. Wonderful Americana!! Absolutely The Best!

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Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 17:42:50

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'T')ake a few minutes and scroll through a few Eastwood scenes on google video or youtube. Wonderful Americana!! Absolutely The Best! :)
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?”

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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 18:10:37

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'A')nother GREAT Eastwood flick. Still better, though, "The Outlaw Josey Wales", and of course the BEST of them ALL, Pale Rider. My avatar of course :-)

I've seen "The Outlaw", a loooong time ago. Don't think I've ever seen Pale Rider.
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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 18:20:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RedStateGreen', 'I')'ve seen "The Outlaw", a loooong time ago. Don't think I've ever seen Pale Rider.

Rent it. You'll understand my posting a lot better :-)

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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby timmac » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 18:20:53

I find it a little strange that a person lives there life as a Hollywood make believe person, wheres same long jacket as posted in another forum, compares him/her self to this make believe movie character, speaks similar as to this character and such, has avatar of him, wait a minute I sometimes think I am Burt Monroe but he was a real person, Oh Well..

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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 18:44:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'I') find it a little strange that a person lives there life as a Hollywood make believe person, wheres same long jacket as posted in another forum, compares him/her self to this make believe movie character, speaks similar as to this character and such, has avatar of him, wait a minute I sometimes think I am Burt Monroe but he was a real person, Oh Well. LOL :mrgreen:

Your problem is you can't distiguish metaphors from reality. Pale Rider is a metaphor, a fairly long one in film version. Eastwood takes on fundamental questions of Equity, Right and Wrong, Good and Evil in his films. His protagonist is almost always the loner, a mysterious stranger who come wielding a gun and very clear principles of right and wrong. He always fights on the side of the downtrodden.

Those are MOVIES, and obviously no REAL person can be Clint Eastwood of the Movies, anymore than we can have our Rambos here or Walker, Texas Rangers either, though Chuck is trying to bring that persona to real life these days. Regardless of the fact I could NEVER be a cinematic Pale Rider, it does not mean I can't take from the film the ideas and the principles in their and apply them to my life. Other folks read the Bible and take principles gathered from stories about Jesus to live their lives, do you criticize them because nobody really can be Jesus?

Pale Rider is a POWERFUL film. The fundamental questions we talk about here all the time are addressed in that film very well. I chose this avatar because of that, above other films I feel demonstrate equity and justice in clear ways people of our time can understand, like the Grapes of Wrath and Last of the Mohicans. I'm not Clint Eastwood, I can never be a move character, but I can take from a film as well done as this one some principles to stand by. Just as RSG can look at High Plains Drifter and take some lessons about what life may be like when the Big Show comes to a Theatre Near Her. Film is the communication medium I grew up with, and I saw good fillms and bad ones, but in any case just as some people took their lessons of morality from the Bible, I took mine from some of these films, and I use them liberally as metaphors here on Peak Oil in my arguments. You might think this is shallow, I do not. This is for the reader here to decide. I'll continue to use it though regardless, because *I* like it, and *I* think it says something important about morality.
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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby timmac » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 18:56:35

Just poking at you there RE, maybe my avatar will be Burt Munro someday, Now that's a good story, my wife says I spend to much time on my bikes, classic car and rv just like Burt, never stops, never gives in and keeps making it faster and better....

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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby timmac » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 19:02:28

Worlds Fastest Indian.

This one tops most Eastwood movies..


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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby Pops » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 19:13:29

I'm thinkin the best Eastwood flick is "Unforgiven" Pale Rider is good, but if I remember correctly the first time he rode a "pale horse" was back in "Drifter" and he rode the same in many movies afterward.

We all know the "The Fourth Horseman" rode a Pale Horse and the name of the rider was Death. I'm trying to figure out which one to watch, I have lots...
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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 19:28:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'W')e all know the "The Fourth Horseman" rode a Pale Horse and the name of the rider was Death...
As I try to make perfectly clear all the time :-) $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Eastwood chose the title for this film from Revelation. The metaphor would be that with Death comes Life, but on the back of the Pale Horse Death comes to the WICKED. I personally like that lesson :-)
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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby InverseBetaDecay » Sat 14 Mar 2009, 20:08:09

I always liked "The Good the Bad & the Ugly" since I was a kid. There is no deeper message than a depiction of violence and greed in the old west, but that film is the ultimate "spaghetti western". When they stare each other down in the grave yard at the end, with that wild soundtrack-unbelievable. I think that scene is about 20 minutes long. Kids had longer attention spans then, the film runs almost 3 hours. Sergio Leone broke new ground with that genre. Meant to be exaggerated for effect, I think.
High Plains Drifter also was one of my favorites, but I think Eastwood was kind of ripping off (or doing a tribute to?) the Leone films. The supernatural twist was a nice touch, too. After Clint made his westerns, John Wayne's seemed kind of dated and corny to me. (sorry Duke fans, just one guys opinion)
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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby TWilliam » Sun 15 Mar 2009, 00:03:13

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'I')'m thinkin the best Eastwood flick is "Unforgiven" Pale Rider is good, but if I remember correctly the first time he rode a "pale horse" was back in "Drifter" and he rode the same in many movies afterward.
We all know the "The Fourth Horseman" rode a Pale Horse and the name of the rider was Death. I'm trying to figure out which one to watch, I have lots...

Yea, I liked Unforgiven. Sorta like his Pale Rider/Drifter/Man With No Name when he got older and started recognizing that his 'clear principles' maybe weren't so clear after all. Great films tho'...
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Re: High Plains Drifter

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Sun 15 Mar 2009, 00:22:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', 'Y')ea, I liked Unforgiven. Sorta like his Pale Rider/Drifter/Man With No Name when he got older and started recognizing that his 'clear principles' maybe weren't so clear after all.


That actually is the reason Unforgiven does NOT top my list of Eastwood films. Although on a directorial level in exposition it was one of the best, I feel like he lost his way and no longer can make distinctions between right and wrong. He got old and sad basically, rather than old and wise. I prefer Eastwood in his Prime. There is a time when old folks get too soft, and Unforgiven is a bit too soft for my liking. He still combats the evil though, so its not horrendously bad on a moral level. I still go with Pale Rider as Eastwood's best film.

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