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Guns & Moses

JL;DR SUMMARY In his review of Salvador Litvak's action film "Guns & Moses," Tevi Troy critiques the filmmaker's decision to avoid using real-world antisemitic villains, favoring instead generic Hollywood antagonists like businessmen and former military operatives. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish RepresentationHollywoodCultural CritiqueCinemaSalvador LitvakGuns & MosesVillainsAction MoviesSynagogue Violence

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Poway, California, United States
"he was inspired to make Guns & Moses by the 2019 Poway, California, shooting at a Chabad synagogue."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"this past summer. In todays Hollywood, having an actual antisemite from one of these groups as the killer would certainly have been the more unexpected twist."

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