Catechism at the OK Corral

“Most viewers simply feel captured by a film like Death Wish or The Shootist. They are not aware of being ritually instructed, because myths derive from and appeal to the unconscious rather than the conscious mind. Although the process within an individual may be largely unconscious, the mythical paradigms of his culture have already been implanted” (Lawrence and Jewett, The Myth of the American Superhero, p. 112).