Word: rider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rider-in-black asks the only man with any life left in him. The man, covered with blood, moans, "Kill me." "Who did it?" the rider insists. "Kill me." The rider hands his gun to his naked son who fires two bullets into the man's stomach...
...rider from nowhere becomes the avenger. This is the super spaghetti Western--the most surreal version of an already surreal type. Even the music sounds as if Sergio Leone had picked...
...second part of the film begins as the rider abandons his son for the woman, who demands, as a condition of her love, that he show himself to be the greatest man by killing the Four Great Masters of the Desert. He calls her Mara, which, he says, is what the Israelites called the bitter water they found in the desert. (Mara is also the name of the tempter of the Buddha.) She, along with every other woman in the movie, is portrayed as evil; all are vain, selfish, deceitful. There is only one exception, a midget, who is childish...
...hero who becomes noble after the first half of the movie. The Four Masters are exemplary of the great-and-noble man: the first is a Hindu who concentrates so that bullets pass through him: the second is far faster and more accurate with his gun than the rider; the next is a faster sharp-shooter who has hundreds of pet rabbits (all of which we get to see die, of course); the last is an old man who uses a butterfly net instead of a gun to shoot back any bullets fired at him. The rider beats the first...
Almost everyone involved in the spectacular success of Easy Rider-Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson -has won the privilege of making his own film. The latest to do so is Henry Jaglom, a Hollywood unknown who was rumored to have worked miracles on the lengthy Rider footage, trimming it down and making it work. The release of Jaglom's own pretentious and confusing film, however, suggests that the rumors of his expertise were greatly exaggerated, or at least that it does not extend to directing...