tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post8116845910617316434..comments2024-03-28T09:24:58.391-04:00Comments on Stuff I Like: A Blog: Welcome to Hell: High Plains Drifter (1973)The Wasphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08636805818054637966noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-18542526050272393872017-02-20T23:26:10.792-05:002017-02-20T23:26:10.792-05:00Yep - thanxYep - thanxThe Wasphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08636805818054637966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-3277035708616172722017-02-20T23:24:42.622-05:002017-02-20T23:24:42.622-05:00Hilarious. My dad, a connoisseur of Western storie...Hilarious. My dad, a connoisseur of Western stories and fan of REH, bought it and hated it. He told me they were terrible. The Wasphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08636805818054637966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-78992905344642783452017-02-20T19:17:53.064-05:002017-02-20T19:17:53.064-05:00There is also the manner in which Eastwood's c...There is also the manner in which Eastwood's character materializes from the heat shimmer at the beginning and fades away the same way at the end, that signifies the supernatural.<br /><br />DanHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-16927094959781372692017-02-20T16:38:02.821-05:002017-02-20T16:38:02.821-05:00Ooo...that's collectible. Bison Press did a c...Ooo...that's collectible. Bison Press did a collection roughly a decade ago, and then the REH Foundation recently published all the serious westerns in one hardcover edittion.Adventuresfantastichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16907562789681407416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-17553281748781741512017-02-20T16:30:43.947-05:002017-02-20T16:30:43.947-05:00got this kicking around somewhere
http://www.isf...got this kicking around somewhere<br /><br /><br />http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?265398The Wasphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08636805818054637966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-70727384067102916132017-02-20T15:28:15.528-05:002017-02-20T15:28:15.528-05:00I've not read many, but there are some relativ...I've not read many, but there are some relatively inexpensive collections of both his serious and his humorous westerns to be had.Adventuresfantastichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16907562789681407416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-9905410375735988722017-02-20T15:26:50.400-05:002017-02-20T15:26:50.400-05:00I had forgotten that scene in Unforgiven.I had forgotten that scene in Unforgiven.Adventuresfantastichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16907562789681407416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-56372072556401596722017-02-20T15:26:46.869-05:002017-02-20T15:26:46.869-05:00Absolutely. There's some bitter and dark stuff...Absolutely. There's some bitter and dark stuff in a lot of older Westerns. Way more than many casual viewers realize.<br /><br />I'll have to track down Brackett writing about Westerns. She's totally right vis a vis myth vs. reality. Heck, the reality is mostly going to be closer to Laura Ingalls Wilder's books than Sergio Leone's movies. <br /><br />I've only the REH Westerns in the Collected Horror. I remember digging them.The Wasphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08636805818054637966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-1620318984324220312017-02-20T15:21:55.330-05:002017-02-20T15:21:55.330-05:00It's up there for me too, right next to Josey ...It's up there for me too, right next to Josey Wales. The whip scene reminds me of the final gundown Clint inflicts in Unforgiven. Need to rewatch and compare.The Wasphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08636805818054637966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-12409630741700673172017-02-19T23:17:17.917-05:002017-02-19T23:17:17.917-05:00A lot of the old time westerns are a lot darker th...A lot of the old time westerns are a lot darker than people think. The Searchers is pretty dark. (The book darker than the movie.)<br /><br />Leigh Brackett, pulp write and screenwriter for Rio Bravo, noted the mythological West wasn't like the real west, though she liked the real West.<br /><br />Robert E. Howard wrote a few "Weird Westerns" like the "Man on the Ground" and "Old Garfield's Heart." He also wrote what is an early anti-hero type Western, "The Vultures of Whapeton." Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695983348254508387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-76564530365542324052017-02-19T16:39:44.709-05:002017-02-19T16:39:44.709-05:00This is probably one of my favorite Eastwood movie...This is probably one of my favorite Eastwood movies. The scene where the townspeople have been abandoned by Clint and are being held in the saloon and the whip comes flying in over the swinging doors from out of the darkness is one of the most powerful in the whole movie. And you're right. It's a ghost story, a subtle but highly effective one. Never fails to give me chills.Adventuresfantastichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16907562789681407416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-31812721664202317112017-02-18T15:34:47.011-05:002017-02-18T15:34:47.011-05:00First, as he's leaving, Mordecai says: "I...First, as he's leaving, Mordecai says: "I never did know your name" and Clint responds "Yes, you do." The camera pulls around to reveal the freshly inscribed headstone for Marshall Jim Duncan. Second, the Clint couldn't have seen the murder if he wasn't there. Finally, Eastwood wanted a more supernatural tone to the movie and deliberately excised any idea his character was the marshall's brother. He wanted to his character to be a revnant visiting punishment on the wicked.The Wasphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08636805818054637966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-66763628878285078392017-02-18T15:28:27.240-05:002017-02-18T15:28:27.240-05:00Thanx! It must have been weird as hell to see up o...Thanx! It must have been weird as hell to see up on the screen back in '73.The Wasphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08636805818054637966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-61916935437276981402017-02-18T15:17:41.267-05:002017-02-18T15:17:41.267-05:00Nice one, Fletcher!
But what makes you think it&#...Nice one, Fletcher!<br /><br />But what makes you think it's supernatural? As I remember it, the reveal is that he's the Marshall's brother (or related in some way). It's been a few years, so the details are fuzzy, but that's how I recall it. John O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17216149630457094727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008217764991774516.post-70471332439570185592017-02-18T13:52:48.957-05:002017-02-18T13:52:48.957-05:00Excellent take on a movie that always disturbed th...Excellent take on a movie that always disturbed the hell out of me…<br />Jim Cornelius<br />www.frontierpartisans.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com