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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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Shane quotes

  • Marian Starrett: You're both out of your senses. This isn't worth a life, anybody's life. What are you fighting for? This shack, this little piece of ground, and nothing but work, work, work? I'm sick of it. I'm sick of trouble. Joe, let's move. Let's go on. Please!

    Joe Starrett: Marion, don't say that. That ain't the truth. You love this place more than me.

    Marian Starrett: Not anymore.

    Joe Starrett: Even if that was the truth, it wouldn't change things.

  • Marian Starrett: You were through with gun-fighting?

    Shane: I changed my mind.

    Marian Starrett: [softly] Are you doing this just for me?

    Shane: For you, Marion... for Joe, and little Joe.

    Marian Starrett: Then we'll never see you again?

    Shane: Never's a long time, Marian.

    [looks at Joe, who he knocked out]

    Marian Starrett: Tell him... tell him I was sorry.

    Shane: No need to tell him that.

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