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Old September 28th, 2005 #30
Antiochus Epiphanes
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yes I have fallen asleep watching that movie twice.

My favorite is "High Plains Drifter."

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Eastwood directs his first Western, and it's a knockout. The story begins as a mysterious stranger (Eastwood) materializes out of the desert heat. He rides into the small town of Lago, where his presence is considered a threat by the mean but cowardly populace. Desperate to seek help against three recently released prisoners, the town's leaders cautiously approach Eastwood and plead with him to save their town from the criminals. Eastwood agrees to help them, while turning the town upside down in the process. An eerie, supernatural western, that takes the avenging man-with-no-name character created by Eastwood and Leone to its most logical extreme
I think that White activists can strongly sympathize with that kind of character, which, not coincidentally, has a strong relationship on the emotional level to the "ronin" of "Seven Samurai"