jpBrad Pitt plays Jesse James as a suicidal Christ figure in a film too cowardly to call him what he is: a charismatic thug with a body count. Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James doesn’t deconstruct myths — it polishes them.
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Martyr, Messiah, Murderer: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) aims for irony but lands in hypocrisy. Both title characters shoot people in the back with premeditation—yet only one is called a “…