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Carson 2022-03-24 09:02:51

I almost fell asleep watching westerns. In fact, I can't blame it. It's really boring and the pace is very slow. And the whole picture is groggy and tiring.
The story is a very classic pattern: the simple farmers were bullied and driven away by bullies, and they wanted to rise up to resist the disparity of power. Then a mysterious gunman came from afar. For some reason, he lived here. The warm kindness of their mothers eradicated the bullies for them, and they continued to wander.
The most touching part is the part before the climax. Joey's father wants to fight the bully alone. Shane tries to stop him. The two of them fight and lose both. In the end, Joey is knocked out, and Shane solves the trouble by himself.
A very real character is that although Shane has good marksmanship, but his boxing skills are average, he will also be injured, and the viewer will feel pain when he fights with people.
The whole film embodies the truth of "the world's kung fu is only fast and unbreakable" to the extreme. The music in the few minutes before the climax has already rendered the emotions very much, and the final decisive battle is just two shots, which is very fast, shocking and high-profile, and it is a good way to deal with it.
What I don't understand is why Shane took so long to shoot on the way to the showdown? Constantly switching between the little boy Joey, the dog and Shane to strengthen the emotions between the characters?

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Extended Reading
  • Kaia 2022-03-21 09:02:38

    (7.5) Finally watched this highly cited movie. Demonstrative significance is much greater than the value of the film itself, of course, it is also very beautiful. Westerns always have a certain stereotype in people's impressions (and they do), but most of those Westerns that are still repeated today are remembered for breaking that stereotype.

  • Timothy 2022-03-20 09:02:15

    Soothing and intense, and endless aftertaste. This is a western film with deep emotions. It has a calm narrative and a perfect picture. It is extremely lyrical without being muddled. It makes people feel the sincerity at the bottom of the heart. The film plays a beautiful elegy about the times and males, which is vigorous and silent, not overly sad, but it creates an excellent atmosphere of nostalgia and gives the audience infinite inner strength.

Shane quotes

  • 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.

  • 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.