public outlaw mythology

His Spaghetti Westerns mythologize the outlaw as a moral anti-hero operating outside corrupt systems, most famously in the 'Dollars Trilogy.'

His revisionist Westerns interrogate the outlaw myth by showing how frontier violence and lawlessness become romanticized into national legend.

His crime noir films like 'Le Samouraï' and 'Bob le Flambeur' elevate the professional criminal outlaw into an existential folk hero bound by personal codes.