July 27, 2024
As a cultural concept, the Gunfighter, is still a potent myth. But it's interesting to note that as a stalwart character in the annals of the Wild West, the Gunfighter—as a reigning myth— only ruled at the box office for about a quarter century (1948-1973) although the iconic image of a lone gunman standing in the middle of the street of a frontier town, about to dispense justice, still resonates with a few of us.
Daily Whip Out:Today, of course, the so-called "good man with a gun," has been tainted by school shootings, disrupted political rallies and the proliferation of the AR-15.
Meanwhile, got this from our Little Aussie Bastard and had to share:
I don't know about you, but this was very emotional to me—I teared up. Thanks James B. Mills! And, just when I thought I had summed up the Killer Kids of the Civil War with every quote and every possible angle, this lyric jumped out at me:
"I've been 10,000 miles in the mouth of a graveyard. . ."
"I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard rain's ah gonna fall."
—Bob Dylan, summing it all up with the right words in the right order
Hard Rain is quite possibly my favorite Bob song. And I am a Bob fanatic. Named my first born after him. I likes 'em all!
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ReplyDeleteSure about that? I mean, isn't John Wick a semi-auto version of the lone gunfighter? He sure fits a lot of the characteristics. Haunted past, comes into town, solves troubles with justified violence, leaves town alone, never accepted by even the people he helps. He's ruled the box office three times now. Not exactly an era, but that heroic paradigm has been around since the knight errant.
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