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In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really affects me deeply is when you see it taken to the extent where Native Americans become mythical people.

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Jim Jarmusch
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 22
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Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio
James Roberto Jim Jarmusch
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