Posted on 06/30/2019 8:03:37 AM PDT by Rummyfan
I don't like Westerns.
Not just those creaky serials spoofed by SCTV's "Six Gun Justice." I mean the genre's purported masterpieces:
High Noon is coma-inducing despite its "exciting" real-time gimmick, those 85 minutes feel like 200. Howard Hawk's "answer film," Rio Bravo, is a door-slamming farce without the jokes five men running in and out, a simulacrum of "action." Shane? I don't get it. Stagecoach hasn't aged well, leading me to wonder, heretically, whether it was ever any good.
Besides today's movie, the only old Westerns that impressed me were The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and the operatic Douglas Sirk-meets-David-Lynch camp classic acid trip, Johnny Guitar.
But those don't really count as "old," because they're considered precursors to the revisionist anti-Western of the Little Big Man sub-species, which ham-fistedly allegorized the Vietnam War or some such. (Don't laugh: The Shooting is about the Kennedy assassination, which is perversely funny: the Zapruder film itself history's most argued-about strip of celluloid is somehow less ambiguous, plus a LOT shorter...)
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
“SYLS”
What?
I really hate this modern tendency to reduce everything to obscure acronyms.
Come on, man we were discussing Support You Local Sheriff.
This ain’t hard. ;)
“Come on, man we were discussing Support You Local Sheriff.
This aint hard.;)”
The title appeared once, in post #54. Easy for old people to overlook.
You are, of course, at liberty to do whatever you want. I am at liberty to be grumpy about it.
To help in future ...
GFY means good for you.
GMTA means good morning to all.
LOL means lots of luck.
Hope that helps. ;)
“GFY means good for you.
GMTA means good morning to all.
LOL means lots of luck.”
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
My sides are splitting.
I got into an argument with my Sons English Teacher over Shane.
He went to a small, Christian high school. Id be very surprised if Shane was taught anymore in public schools.
She was teaching that Shane was all about the little guys standing up to the big guy.
I told her that she was missing a lot of the flavor of the book.
Shanes clothes are an integral part of the book.
He comes from the East, dark, mysterious and deadly.
He buys work clothes and becomes more relaxed.
He puts back on his black clothes to go into town and kill.
Great imagery.
Ben Jonson. He was a real cowboy from Oklahoma who stumbled into acting. He appeared in many John Ford flicks alongside John Wayne and late in his career won an Oscar in The Last Picture Show.
Died in his late twenties resulting from a vehicle accident.
One of his last best roles was as Tector Gorch in The Wild Bunch.
I don’t think that I have. It’s a long movie anyway, I can’t imagine the director’s cut. Does it differ significantly?
Yep.
Corporal Tyree?
I think it adds about 15 minutes.
Shane! Come back, Shane!
One of my all time favorite movies.
The waltz. Goodbye Old Paint—I’m Leaving Cheyenne.
I had to look it up, and found this wonderful review:
https://classicfilmobsessions.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-unexpected-beauty-in-shane-1953.html
It includes the opening sequence as the credits roll. I choke up every time I hear it.
How could Steyn’s writer overlook this observation:
“There is beauty in portrayal of the chaste relationship between Shane and Marian. Not a single word or touch passes between them beyond what is necessary, but rather, only looks, and later, motivations for action, can convey the depth of their feelings.”
It’s a great film and one of my personal favorites. The violence is quite vehement because George Stevens, who recorded the European theater of war during WWII, wanted to show what real violence was like. So the two major fight sequences - particularly the one near the barn between Shane and Joe - are staged with brutal realism. I always wince at the poor horses straining to get away from them.
And the three-way relationship of the adults in the film is handled with wonderful sympathy. What a movie!
Yes, Joe knows.
Little Joey’s voice echoing at the end “And Mother wants you.”
Gene Rodinberry actually directed a couple Wagon Train episodes.
Love this movie.
Hah. Did not know that.
“We just like different things from OUR OWN generation.”
Technically, no generation has their OWN things.
Normally, songs, plays, stories,traditions etc. have been handed down through the generations and have been enjoyed until now, I suppose, when everyone is too cool for school.
I wonder if Shakespeare will survive the snowflakes.
I bet you don’t like Christmas music.
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