For a long time, Shane has been my favorite A Stranger Comes to Town Story. I don't know how many times I've watched it. There's a good chance I'll cue it up again tonight. A couple of the programs I follow have had their season finales already. It's February. There's snow on the ground and more's coming tonight. When do people need to see new TV shows, do you think? Maybe the TV execs watch the weather channel and knew it was going to snow and I wouldn't be going anywhere.
Sorry. I come to a fork in the road and I take it.
Shane. I love the symbolism in the film, as well as the story. Take the stump scene. The stranger comes to town, and what do you know, the stubborn stump Van Heflin has been working on for years finally, through combined sweat and horse muscle aiding man muscle, the dad-burned stump's rotten roots let go of the earth. It foreshadows what's coming. You just know the good guys are going to win. You know the evil rancher's old out-of-date ways will be uprooted. You know the meek farmers will inherit an acre or two. It's a sacred moment early in the film, like something an Old Testament prophet (my fingers almost wrote profit) would say.
Sorry. I come to a fork in the road and I take it.
Shane. I love the symbolism in the film, as well as the story. Take the stump scene. The stranger comes to town, and what do you know, the stubborn stump Van Heflin has been working on for years finally, through combined sweat and horse muscle aiding man muscle, the dad-burned stump's rotten roots let go of the earth. It foreshadows what's coming. You just know the good guys are going to win. You know the evil rancher's old out-of-date ways will be uprooted. You know the meek farmers will inherit an acre or two. It's a sacred moment early in the film, like something an Old Testament prophet (my fingers almost wrote profit) would say.
Speaking of profit, what triggered all this is I saw a Chevy truck commercial last night, and it showed one of their red pickups ripping a stump out of slightly muddy ground. I thought it was sacrilege, appropriating the Shane symbol. But I guess you can't copyright a stump. Stumps don't wear numbers you can retire. So I absolved Chevy of wrongdoing while lusting after their burly red pickup in my heart, which is good, because if I hadn't given them absolution, I'd have had a problem with myself.
Sundown Town Duty Station is a Stranger Comes to Town story, with a twist. Also, there's a cool stump among the cast of characters.
My wife says I'm an asocial misfit and that's why