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Originally Posted by meetthecreeper
High Plains Drifter was def. about a ghost taking his revenge on the town. Although I didnt understand it until I was older, as a kid I loved the Eastwood westerns and just saw it as such.
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Director Eastwood always ascertained an ambiguity about the true nature of the character, and IMO, I never viewed it as a ghost story either. Avenging force, but not a ghost. It was basically a revamping of High Noon, with a more sadistic 70s approach.
I always thought the Mad Max trilogy was a reworking of Leone's dollar trilogy. The format(at least for the 2nd and 3rd, the first was more revenge driven) was basically - stranger arrives in town, plays both sides against each other, gets savagely beaten which results in apocolyptic showdown. Same as Leone.
So, I guess, Max was the Mad Man with No Name. :rolleyes: