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The Long Riders (1980)
★ 6.7 · 284 ratings on TMDB
"All the world likes an outlaw. For some damn reason they remember 'em." - Jesse James
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
DirectorWalter Hill
The emergence reading
The Long Riders keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
