The Western is how America has chosen to tell its story, first to ourselves and then to the world. It is America’s contribution to world mythology, and like all mythology it is partly the truth, and partly a lie.
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The death penalty does not deter crime. Most of the rest of the industrialized world understands this.
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What gave rise to the Midnight Movie was not a new way of making films, but a new way of seeing them.
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A standard launching point for many a story, or a segué into a flashback, is some variation on the phrase “Let’s start at the beginning.” But today we’re going to begin at the end.
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