PaleRider draws heavily from Shane (1953) and is said to be a "re-make" of sorts.
In PaleRider, a tinpanner is gunned down in town in a way that is nearly identical to the way Jack Palance guns down sodbuster, Frank Torrey, in Shane.
Despite being a Shane knock-off (or is it a tribute?), PaleRider is a solid Good Viewer.
The title is a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the rider of a pale horse is Death.
Furthermore, the character arrives riding a pale horse at the same moment that a teenage girl—who had earlier asked help from God—reads from the Bible in Revelation of the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse, Death, riding on a pale horse.
PaleRider not only examines how the environment can be exploited, it also takes the time to demonstrate a better way, an alternative to the absolute destruction of large scale corporate mining centered around the fact of hydraulic mining.
The opening to PaleRider immediately establishes a classic binary between good and evil found in Westerns like Shane, where cattle barons resist the inclusion of small farmers into their open range, by contrasting the pristine forested Sawtooth Mountains with the thunderous riders, who disrupt the peace nature represents.
The pounding of these riders is also contrasted with the laughter of the families in the village where small miners carefully pan for gold in the clear water of a stream.
"PaleRider Ale", which borrows its name from Clint's 1985Western, made its debut at his landmark San Carlos Street restaurant and bar during the first week of August, 1997.
Brewed and bottled by Celis Brewery, an Austin, Texas, subsidiary of the Miller Brewing Company, PaleRider Ale will be introduced into the Carmel-Monterey area and then eventually throughout the West.
All of Eastwood's proceeds from PaleRider Ale sales will be donated to his favorite charities around the country, including the Carmel Youth Center and the Boys and Girls Club of the Monterey Peninsula.
Porter's heroine in Pale Horse, PaleRider is Miranda, a child in Old Morality and now a young woman working for a newspaper in Denver.
It is 1918, in the midst of both World War I and the influenza epidemic, a concurrence that one character gives a decidedly contemporary spin: "They say that it is really caused by germs brought by a German ship to Boston," she tells Miranda.
But, as persistent as the palerider of her dreams, there is always "the war, the war, the War to end War, war for Democracy, for humanity, a safe world forever and ever."
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The rider comes to be known only as "The Preacher" (Clint Eastwood) and after helping Hull out of a skirmish with some of LaHood's men, Hull invites the Preacher to stay with him, Sarah and Megan.
A mysterious, unarmed stranger known only as "Preacher" (Clint Eastwood) rides into town on a pale horse and immediately rekindles the hopes and dreams of a group of poor, struggling panhandlers that have been fighting a losing battle against a wealthy strip mining family and their hired guns.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with pestilence, and with the wild beasts of the earth.
Phoenix was modeled on Project Pale Horse--a CIA-funded "fl op" aptly named after a passage in the Bible that used Navy SEALs and Green Berets in Vietnam to lead indigenous teams of killers in detaining, torturing and murdering grassroots political leaders, and anybody else that the U.S. high command disliked.
Oh, to be a frontier woman, challenged by adversaries that don't believe in fair play and have Clint Eastwood (he of the Man with No Name variety) ride into town on a dapple grey horse and save the day.
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"PaleRider" is Producer/Director/Star Clint Eastwood's unofficial remake of George Stevens' "Shane" (1953).
When Megan's dog is killed during the raid, she prays for someone to help her against the oppressors.
Out of the mist comes a mysterious stranger (Eastwood), whom the scriptural passage Megan is reading describes him as "death riding a pale horse".
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PaleRider was filmed in Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho, and in Columbia, Calif. Screenwriters Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack had also written The Gauntlet for Eastwood.
They told him that they wanted to write a Western, so he worked with them on the treatment for PaleRider.
The fact that their guy is more of a real guy...and our guy is an out and out ghost...the biblical implications and the mythology of PaleRider is just something I wanted to explore.
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A mysterious and possibly otherworldly stranger comes to the rescue of a frontier town in this Western, which was strongly influenced by the George Stevens classic, Shane.
As the Preacher and Barrett try to organize the miners to fight the invaders, both Megan and her mother Sarah (Carrie Snodgrass) find they're drawn to the Preacher, who keeps to himself and seems to have more than his share of secrets.
PaleRider was also directed by leading man Clint Eastwood; it was his first Western as both director and star since the acclaimed The Outlaw Josey Wales.
With franchisehood on the brain but anemia in its bones, “Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker” plays like a ho-hum kickoff film in an envisioned string of spy-teen flicks based on the young-adult Alex Rider novels.
While this movie may satisfy kids, it’s basically 007 ultra-lite and a sorry attempt to ride on the book-to-screen success wave established by the Harry Potter series.
Blame a formulaic screenplay by Anthony Horowitz (adapting his novel), tame direction by Geoffrey Sax and ineffective casting choices for the movie’s failure to deliver the excitement and surprises that this material demands.
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