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Shane (1953)
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Viewing Shane for the AFI Project
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"What's the AFI project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blog s/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25 756.aspx Shane is on the following AFI lists: "
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"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. show "
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Western
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"The Western Top 10 is the toughest for me. As some of you may know, while I'm hardly Richard Slotkin or Jane Tompkins, I write, teach, and think about this genre on a regular basis, and, as a result, my views are not only fairly strong, but well-informed. And, where certain well regarded classics are concerned, they are also iconoclastic. This is probably nowhere more obvious than with The Searchers (1956), the film that tops the AFI list. This film does not resonate with me on any level. I have never found the ending credible. John Wayne does not portray Ethan Edwards with any of the complexity needed for his embrace of Debbie (Natalie Wood) to ring true after his 118 (or so) minutes of hard, racist ranting about Native Americans and his intent to kill her. I also find the photography and production design to be garish without purpose, and for all of its superficial sophistication about Native peoples, the talk of ritual, the use of indigenous language, it only serves to perpetuat ... "
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A Well-Crafted Classic Western
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"As far as Westerns go, this is probably one of the better "classic" ones that I've seen - it's very well acted, the cinematography is right up there with "The Searchers", and the screenplay is very even-handed: the villains seem like victims of circumstance at times, and the dialogue between them and the ranchers, although occasionally a bit too exposition-laden, is informative and true-to-the-times. A very young Jack Palance makes an appearance as a hired gun who embodies the land baron's dark and murderous side, his trademark grin providing the appropriate amount of sadism. The fight scenes are surprisingly drawn-out and, for its time, realistic: you can hear the fighters getting tired and breathing heavily. A very good, classic Western and a GREAT transfer to DVD. "
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"This is a list for Round 2 of my movie year countdown viewing project as first described here. If by any strange chance whoever is reading this is actually following along you may notice that I'm still less than two thirds of the way through my original one. Well I'm starting this new one because as much as I love old movies it can get a little tedious watching just older movies. So I'm going to be blending my watching of the two lists together. Still focusing on the original one, but every once in a while sliding in the next entry from this new list.Again these new movies are limited to full length movies that are available on Netflix. And for this new round instead of picking a movie from every year, I will be picking a movie from every two years. For example the first movie must have come out during 2006 or 2007. The second movie must have come out in 2004 or 2005. The next in 2002 or 2003. You see.The list is not finished yet, but here is what I have decide ... "
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