whatever... You have to provide evidence for that.
His own words. He said he was so far right he was past Maoist, and at heart an anarchist—it’s obvious he was being tongue in cheek, playing on the image of him as a raging right wing reactionary (he liked guns therefore he’s a right winger). Anarchism is as left wing as ideologies come.
i dunno man. Judging what I know about his movies he does seem like a pretty far-right guy. Nazi? I don't know, but it's a stretch to me to say that people are appropriating his movies.
I’m not pulling this out of my ass, I watched his films and the anarchist sentiments are there, if not always immediately obvious. Dirty Harry, for example, is about an old fashioned individualist’s frustration with an ineffective bureaucracy. Magnum Force puts the same individualist against literal nazi biker cops who want to act as judge, jury and executioner—notice how one of the “nazi†bike cops uses a German style machine gun to execute peopje at a mafia pool party. Listen to Lalo Schifrin’s score, evoking military style drums whenever the biker cops appear. His movies ultimately reject the fascist nationalism, often featuring rugged individualists pitted against fascistic villains.
Red Dawn, this is the lowest fruit. It’s communist invaders, so easy to see the year it was made and connect the dots to some hyper Reaganism. But he goes to great lengths to draw subtle parallels between the movie’s soviet invaders and real life nazis of the 1940s. Read the script and there are overt references not to 50s communists but to 40s nazis. The parallels weren’t just coincidental, they were thought out at the early writing stage
I’m not saying rugged individualism itself is perfect, just pointing out I think his politics were a blend of that hyper macho rugged individualism with anarchism. In 1970s Hollywood, I can see why some of his contemporaries might see a fascist.
