L'assassinio di Jesse James per mano del codardo Robert Ford

Jesse James, an Outlaw for All Seasons

JESSE JAMES was in his short lifetime (1847-82) the most celebrated outlaw in the United States, maybe the world, and has managed to remain so even in death. Thanks in large part to the movies, which, for a while anyway, could be relied on to crank up a new version of the James gang mythology every few years or so. In the long-gone days of B westerns it was a lot more often than that. But the pace has slackened dramatically in the past three decades. We satisfy our guilty-pleasure appetite for vicarious criminality with different sorts of charismatic bad guys now. [...]

di Terrence Rafferty, articolo completo (8574 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 16 settembre 2007