Jesse James was born in a burning borderland, and raised in the American Civil War. He never surrendered for 12 years afterwards, becoming the most legendary American outlaw of all time.
Our host Magnus and Pavel sit upon Ozark mountaintops and discuss the last warrior of the South, in tribute to the great man.
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the Lion of Dixie ! I love this, and will share with the fam.
The comparison Magnus makes at the end of this between the Jesse James film in 2007 and “The Order” (2024) is a pretty illustrative one. Jesse James is portrayed in his own film as something of a tragic antihero, and his murderer is portrayed as a coward who ends up getting what he deserves. On the other hand, in The Order, Bob Matthews is portrayed as a manipulative sociopath who fires guns around kids, and his being burnt alive by the FBI is portrayed not as a crime but as an unfortunate necessity – the FBI protagonist pouts a little when he finds out they’ve lit the house up, but he was there to kill the guy regardless.
Definitely reinforces Pavel’s point in the episode about how you won’t get media idolizing these kind of “principled renegade” figures anymore – at least not when they’re racists.