Dead Man; The Backwards Journey of the Anti-Hero
“Know thyself” is part of the DNA of westerns—it’s what compels the hero to protect society or to fight it, to escape into the sunset or marry the storekeeper’s daughter. It’s the foundation of...
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I knew where it was going. Anyone who’s done his or her western homework would. There are two American archetypes that were sometimes played against each other in old Westerns. The egghead Eastern...
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