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Leopold 2022-01-09 08:01:07
[Film Review] Shane (1953) 8.1/10
SHANE, adapted from Jack Schaefer's popular novel, is George Steven's eulogy of a bygone civilization, the West as we know it. Its rub is pivoted around the hard-pressed homesteaders against the grasping prior trailblazers, who cannot brook the land they have been fighting for with sweat and blood,...
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Libbie 2022-03-25 09:01:14
Where is the cowboy?
The film deliberately deviates from that type of template, and there are a lot of anti-Western things.
For example, the shot is not a long sand, a horse, but water plants, farmers, and a warm family.
For example, there are not many gunfights, mainly using fists or something.
I often wonder where...

Leonard Strong
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Deondre 2022-04-24 07:01:17
45 out of 100 AFI Centennials. An understated and timeless western classic.
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Melyssa 2022-03-25 09:01:14
This film can be said to have the most typical hero mode of western movies, and its legendary nature is a warm-up for Leone to start the trend of spaghetti westerns with "Red Dead Redemption" ten years later. The biggest feature of the film is that it extracts certain values from traditional western films and creates an image of a great hero who protects the weak and fights against the invasion of their homeland. Its pure and noble motives, brave and simple character and kind and reliable image are deeply portrayed, and it has created a "Lone Ranger" image that is very keen in the play mode, thematic form and characterization in spaghetti westerns. The myth of this film. Sex even led Clint Eastwood to make The Pale Knight as scripted.
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Joe Starrett: Looks like your friends are a little late. What are the Ryker boys up to this time?
[points a rifle at Shane]
Shane: Ryker?
Joe Starrett: That's what I said.
Shane: I wouldn't know a Ryker from your Jersey cow.
Joe Starrett: Don't forget to close the gate on your way out.
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Rufus Ryker: I don't want no trouble, Starrett. I came to inform ya. I got that beef contract for the reservation.
Joe Starrett: Did it take this many of you to tell me that?
Rufus Ryker: I mean business.
Joe Starrett: Then you tend to your own.
Rufus Ryker: That's just what I'm doing! I'm telling ya now, I'm gonna need all my range.
Joe Starrett: Now that you've warned me, would you mind gettin' off my place?
Rufus Ryker: Your place! You're gonna have to get out before the snow flies.
Joe Starrett: And supposin' I don't?
Rufus Ryker: You and the other squatters...
Joe Starrett: Homesteaders, you mean, don't you?
Rufus Ryker: I could blast you out of here right now, you and the others.
Joe Starrett: Now you listen to me, the time for gun-blastin' a man off his own place is past. Why, they're building a penitentiary right now...
Marian Starrett: Joe, that's enough.