This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here.
Shane
Shane is a legendary name in the history of Westerns, so I had to see it. It took me a while to get into it though. Jean Arthur bored me here actually and I usually get annoyed by prominent kids in movie like this sometimes. Maybe I just don't like kids and this is my personal issue. But I get annoyed with sweet and precocious kids in films. I'm actually more amused and even empathetic to kids in movies that are more dim and pathetic. Take the fat kid in Bad Santa or any of the kids in Welcome to the Dollhouse for instance. Anyways I know this was a totally different kind of movie from a different era, but I just wanted to express that.
Shane became more interesting to me as it went along. I was glad when Elisha Cook Jr. showed up. It's always good to see him in a film. But it was at the point of the bar fight that I really took interest. This is one of the best bar fights I've seen in a movie. I'm interested in good movie bar fights. Refer to Tokyo Drifter and The Ninth Configuration for some examples of some other favorites of mine. I know bar fights are often a staple of westerns but this one was pretty exciting!
Anyways, yeah, it's a pretty good flick.
Rating: 8/10