In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

I've already noticed that the Jason Bourne-Robert Ludlum trilogy of films goes against the Hollywood grain of woke-ing cultural history. Just the other night, I discovered another film of this type, the 2016 Magnificant Seven, which in some ways pays lip service to wokeness, but it reverts to the Western genre, which is older than superhero comics and perhaps less vulnerable to revisionism. It follows a plot paradigm of the genre, the oppressive rancher who tries to force law-abiding settlers out of their town by hiring thugs to harass them. This is the situation we see addressed in classic films like Shane and historical episodes like the gunfight at the OK Corral. The hero is the man of integrity, bravery, and skill who stands up to bullies but, like George Washington, renounces power once he's done it. The problm in the film is the nature of the bully. Somewhere in the American character, it's possible to see the government as the bully, and once this Pandora'...