This morning , I saw a promo on AMC for the Clint Eastwood Classic PALE RIDER...yes another great movie celebrates its 25th anniversary! Much like KKFM this year, other classic films are celebratng 25, including the timeless Breakfast Club (mess with the bull..you';; get the horns) and the first Back to the Future.
there is something pretty special about celebrating 25 years, as we are discovering with our own 25th this year. Its long enough to generate a LOT of memories, but still fresh enough to be (mostly) remembered. Of course in the case of movies, the fact we have seen our favorites time and time ...and TIME again (i have seen Pale Rider dozens of times) reinforces the magic.
Clint made a similiar pic in 1973 called High Plains Drifter in which a mysterious gunman arrives to save a town but really is there to get revenge. Then years later comes Pale Rider..again a mysterious gunman arrives to save the miners from the despotic Coy LaHood(played with a great snarl by Richard Dysart)..this time Eastwood is in the guise of PREACHER ( love the echoing Preeeeeeeeeeeeeeecher Preeeeeeeecher in the wind). In this movie Clint's great skills as a director are even MORE on display. There are great visual touches, odd camera angles, layered storytelling moments and a beautiful setting , plus the uusal humor (nothing like a good piece of hickory!) and in the end, justice is served.
PALE RIDER truly one of the classic Eastwood films!
I think I am liking these 25th anniversaries!
Mark Stevens
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