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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 2271299" data-attributes="member: 4937">There are alot of things I will put up with, but calling me a liar is not one of them.Well, in both movies there is some indication that the men in question are actually avenging ghosts or other supernatural agents.  In both movies, the Eastwood character's existance seems bound by the frame of the story, appearing and disappearing mysteriously.  In 'High Plains Drifter' the entire movie has the surreal character of a horror story.  In Pale Rider, the Eastwood character is introduced accompanied by a prophetic reading from the Book of Revelation.  The movies never really clarify what the nature of the nameless gunman is, leaving the audience to wonder whether the man was left for dead, survived by mere natural means, and has returned for vengeance or whether something more supernatural is at play in man's quest for vengeance.  I don't think its terribly original or contriversial for me to suggest that the genera of the Western is enfused with romantic fantasy elements.   For example, <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/western-movie" target="_blank">http://www.answers.com/topic/western-movie</a></blockquote>