Shane (1953) - The Western That Stars You

In this video, I analyze the 1953 classic western Shane, directed by George Stevens.
The purpose of this analysis is to highlight the movie's self-referential qualities, the way it plays with the archetypical heroes and villains in a fashion that's self-conscious and thematically relevant.
Alan Ladd represents good in an almost elemental way. Jack Palance, likewise, becomes almost the living personification of evil, making him one of the greatest villains in all of westerns, and in films in general.
If you enjoy film analysis of this type, feel free to check out my other video essays on this channel. I do movies of all eras, and examine themes like the ones here and more.

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I always believed that Joey was the essential character when it came to the structure of the movie, as our window for observing a parenthesis in time where all roads came together at a moment in the history of the world he grew up in..

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Why is the guy talking?