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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Aug 20, 2020 18:32:33 GMT
Ah, Liberty Valance. A flawed film mostly because Stewart was too old and the sentimentally Ford leaned on was going out of style. But this is gold: I dig that scene so much. "I said you Liberty. You pick it up." Lee Marvin makes a great villain as always. Pure unfiltered asshole bully. Strother Martin makes the perfect toady and Lee Van Cleef as that silent wild card. The whole scene is close to perfect. How did the Marshall live to be so old? He was eating 4 or 5 steaks a day and hadn't seen his feet in decades probably. That was the point of his character. The subtext here is the sensibilities of rest of the Nation is overtaking the Old West just as by the 1960s American cinema is leaving behind the Western as the myth to describe itself: “This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Often the legend is a lie. Valance is the first anti-Western that portrays the Old West in a more realistic light.
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