Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Toward the end of the miniseries, based on the agatha christie novel of the same name, viewers. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing pale rider near you. Pale rider 1985 movie summary and film synopsis on mhm. At a mining camp by a creek, prospectors calmly pan for gold and inspect their sluice boxes. Pale rider is an excellent and readable account of the pandemic that swept the world in 1918 and caused the deaths of so many millions of people. The pale horse is now streaming on amazon prime video after airing on the bbc in the uk in february. As for pale rider, see the quote in the first post in this thread. A stranger rides into town and conflict forces him to act. In this, perhaps eastwoods most spiritual and religious film, he becomes an avatar of divine punishment and holy retribution. Porters heroine in pale horse, pale rider is miranda, a child in old morality and now a young woman working for a newspaper in denver. Clients thought they were hiring a trio of witches to bump. A fearless gunslinger, yes, but also a mysterious man whose physical prowess is wedded to a. Pale horse, pale rider study guide from litcharts the.
Quote when shane came out, shane was analogous to a lot of westerns that had been made at that time, that is the man who comes from nowhere and leaves from nowhere, and so its an old, old game that has been played in the westerns a long time. In the movie pale rider, i am wondering that when the girl prayed to god for help, clint eastwood was the ghost of a man that had been killed by the assassin marshall and his deputies in the past and that he was sent as the result of a prayer in the form of a ghost that was seeking revenge because when the main bad guy told the marshall that. Summary mirandas narrative opens with a fretful dream foreshadowing death as the first hint that she is becoming ill during the course of the deadly influenza epidemic of 191718. Financial analysis of pale rider 1985 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. Ghosts are usually transparent and would come back as a spirit form rather than body form.
Joe kidd gets drawn into a land dispute between peasants and wealthy landowners and winds up driving a locomotive through the salon before mysterious leaving town with a local girl. They are constantly under attack from the henchmen of a greedy land barron who wants that land for himself. Stockburn, the marshal, is a villainous take on the trope. In high plains drifter, clint played the revengeseeking ghost of a murdered sheriff. By this point in his career clint eastwood was best known for his westerns, he was essentially. With clint eastwood, michael moriarty, carrie snodgress, sydney penny. The riders approach the camp, crossing through the creek and through the local woods. The film was influenced by the work of eastwoods two major collaborators, film directors sergio leone and don. And people are not dying by magic, but by thallium poisoning. Eastwood plays a nameless stranger who rides into the gold rush town of lahood, california and comes to the aid of a group of independent gold prospectors who are being threatened by the lahood mining corporation.
A fearless gunslinger, yes, but also a mysterious man whose physical prowess is wedded to a spiritual power and a. The spanish flu of 1918 and how it changed the world is published by cape. In pale rider, a mysterious preacher rides in to a gold mining camp near a small town in the mountains. Teach your students to analyze literature like litcharts does. The miners there find themselves in grave danger after a ruthless landowner decides to take their land. Pale rider is a 1985 american western film produced and directed by clint eastwood, who also stars in the lead role. Pale rider, le cavalier solitaire film 1985 allocine. However, whereas eastwoods 1973 western, high plains drifter resolves its storyline by means of a series of unfolding flashback narratives. Eastwood plays a mysterious stranger, meting out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town. To say that pale rider is a spiritual or religious film is not an exaggeration. Pale rider does nothing to disprove the wisdom that this genre is best left to the revival houses. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of pale horse, pale rider by katherine anne porter. He tries everything to run them out, including wrecking their homes and.
Pale horse, pale rider, done taken my lover away, and the song supposedy goes on to list the various other people death has taken away, leaving only the singer. In its broad outlines, pale rider is a traditional western, with a story that has been told, in one form or another, a thousand times before. The pale horse finale explained bbc drama ending changed. Pale rider is the title of clint eastwoods entertaining, mystical new western, and the name of him who sits on the pale horse is, simply, the.
Clint, as director, made that obvious by having the verse read aloud while the preacher is seen riding a. The woman puts 3 bullets into the bathtub and clints character survi. Clint eastwood directed the film starring clint eastwood, michael moriarty, and carrie snodgress. In high plains drifter, is the stranger the dead marshals. Pale rider is a book that covers a topic that has emerged from our collective memory of wwi over the last 20 years or so. Pale rider is about a small mining community in 1850s california, amidst the american gold rush. But here, in pale rider, he is simply known as preacher. The gun used in pale rider was a new model 1861 not an 1863 remington revolver. High plains drifter is a 1973 american western film directed by and starring clint eastwood, written by ernest tidyman, and produced by robert daley for malpaso company and universal pictures.
No actor is more aware of his own instruments, and eastwood demonstrates that in pale rider, a film he dominates so completely that only. Warner bros released pale rider to theaters on june 28, 1985. I need to do a 3 minute presentation on the short story, pale horse, pale rider. In the original story and in the tv show, zachary osborne is the killer. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. The pale horse on amazon prime video ending explained. In pale rider, clint eastwood is the director, and having directed himself in nine previous films, he understands so well how he works on the screen that the movie has a resonance that probably was not even there in the screenplay. Katherine ann porters story of a young womans dreams of death.
As the good book says throughout the film as can be expected when the hero is the preacher, but especially the passage from revelation the page quote that megan and her mother read as the preacher rides in. Preacher in pale rider does the same thing when he arrives to deal some justice to a corrupt strip mining corporation. The town is ruled by a cabal of evil men, revolving. When the armistice is announced, miranda the main character in the story, based. The title is a reference to the four horsemen of the apocalypse, as the rider of a pale horse is death.
It is also acclaimed as one of the best and most iconic westerns. A mysterious preacher clint eastwood protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land. Pale horse, pale rider collects three of porters short novelsold mortality, noon wine, and pale horse, pale riderand represents the pinnacle of porters achievement. Pale rider is the title of clint eastwoods entertaining, mystical new western, and the name of him who sits on the pale horse is, simply, the stranger, also called preacher when he. Pale rider is a 1985 american western film produced and directed by clint eastwood, who. It is 1918, in the midst of both world war i and the. With the sheriff supporting that landowner, theres only one man brave enough to save them. Instant downloads of all 1297 litchart pdfs including pale horse, pale rider. A double feature of shane and eastwoods high plains drifter will do just fine, thanks.
In a presentation of any story, offering background. The movie title comes from the book of revelation, which says death rides on a pale horse. Was clint eastwood a ghost in the movie pale rider. In a small california mining town, some independent miners have staked a claim to a promising lode. From start to finish the book presents its arguments clearly and concisely and leaves the reader in no doubt of.
The film s rich color cinematography captures the beautiful environment of the legendary frontier filmed on location in jackson hole, wyoming with its grayblue grand tetons as a backdrop. In the movie shane, the characters are typically good or bad. The best study guide to pale horse, pale rider on the planet, from the creators of sparknotes. Members of a small mining camp mine for gold in a small creek. Shane 1953 is a timeless, classic western tale a very familiar and highly regarded seminal western and the most successful western of the 1950s. Pale rider, le cavalier solitaire film 1985 senscritique. The title, pale horse, pale rider, is a reference to the book of revelation, beholding death riding a pale horse. The entire film is immersed in religious symbolism and imagery. Suddenly the dogs start barking furiously, and people stop what theyre doing to look.
Pale rider is clint eastwoods first western film since he starred in and directed the outlaw josey wales in 1976. With charlene tilton, cliff skoglund, rex steven sikes, ray walston. Originally published in a collection with two other short novels, pale. Its clear that clints character was a re incarnation or ghost of marshall jim duncan. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on litcharts. Although the flu pandemic of 1918 killed far more people than the war it is only recently that it has been talked about, written about and analyzed. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and possible otherworldly origins who teams up with the miners to defeat the land owner and the corrupt sheriff. Its a masterpiece, one of those works in which not a word is out of place, not a word mischosen.
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