Commentaire par bscrivener-50810

Shane is a 1953 western film, directed by George Stevens and stars Alan Ladd as the titular hero, Shane as well as Jean Arthur, Van Heflin and Brandon DeWilde. Shane is often regarded by many as a classic western and labelled as 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant' by the Library of Congress in 1993. Shane no doubt has beautiful cinematography with jaw- dropping, eye popping shots of the Wyoming landscape during its opening scenes. However, the film suffers from one of the worst offences possible, especially for a western- it is too drawn out, too slow and has dreadful dialogue. most notably from the interactions between Shane and Joey. In these much of the dialogue doesn't hold up today showing it's awful ageing by today's standards- some of it unfortunately sounding down right disturbing. Continuing with this is the atrocious acting by Brandon DeWilde- his character Joey is extremely irritating throughout with an ear-piercing pitched voice and either under acting or over acting depending on the scene, this as an audience turns us away from the character leading to us not care for some of the more 'emotional' scenes. Shane also seems to have a surprising lack of action scenes, this resulting in the film seemingly trudge along at snails pace. Another flaw with Shane is well, Shane himself. Alan Ladd is extremely dull and emotionless for most of the film, Shane neither grows on us or seems to develop with the story- it isn't until the end when we really finally appreciate Shane as a character with a crowd-pleasing finale and generally pleasing closing scene. Overall, Shane while many to be considered a classic western masterpiece, certainly in it's beautiful cinematography and authentic western scores it shines through- but with a snail-pace story, some terrible acting and dialogue and some poor characterisation holds it back significantly as a personal opinion. 6/10