My Favorite Western Movie

The High Plains Drifter by Clint Eastwood is my favorite western. The movie is very interesting. It has a lot of twist and turns that the viewers don’t see coming. I thought this was a great movie. It kept me on my seat and very interested. Clint Eastwood is an amazing director and actor. The way the scenes were shot and the sound effects for that time were great. Throughout the movie I noticed that there were a lot of messages. This was a movie that made me think all the way through. During movies I love to think of what’s going to happen next and how it’s going to end. This was like any other western I have ever seen in my life. I actually enjoyed a western movie for once.

In the beginning I was confused on why he was having flashbacks of the whipping. When he goes in town and hears the whips snapping, brings back bad memories of what the three men done to him. Then he tries to sleep and dreams about being beat with whips and wakes up in a cold sweat. He sees the marshal telling the town people as they stood back and watched. That he would see them in hell. I think if the author may use 1st person, which it was to symbolize the superiority of The Nameless Character of Clint Eastwood who was really Marshall Jim Duncan. He had come back to punish the town for what they had done, or what they should have done. He tells the town that they don’t need him and they can fight the brothers off by themselves. He gives them the guns and strategy to do it, but they insist that they need him. Eastwood gives those three times to get rid of him and let him be, but the town keeps pestering him. Then the town makes a grave mistake. They make a deal to give him ANYTHING that he wants. Who else would you make a deal like that with, none other tha...

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... see. Personally I didn’t see it until we discussed the movie. The pale horse was to symbolize the 4th horseman, Death. In The Book of Revelation, chapter 6, verse 8: "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." When he rode into town everyone stopped what they were doing and had this look of cowardice. They all look upon him as he was going to kill all of the townspeople.

After discussing this movie in class it all makes sense. All the details that I missed throughout the movie I saw when we started discussing it. I saw most of the religious themes, some like the pale horse evaded me. This was a great movie and one that I would recommend to anyone. The way that it is written and the way that is was played out is amazing. I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface with the meanings behind this movie.