Shane come back!!!!

The movie Shane is a classic, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. A stinking classic.

One of the great examples of the even greater Hollywood myths about the old West and gunfighters.

I wrote a paper about this movie in college and not only did I get an A on the paper, but the professor read my work in front of the entire class.
A proud moment, no doubt, but just writing about a movie I loved was fun.

This movie is about a rather well traveled gunslinger wanting to change his life. If a person doesn't care for westerns or the gunfighting subject, this movie is set right at the base of the Grand Teton mountain range in Wyoming and that's worth sitting through the drama in itself. A more beautiful setting would be hard to imagine.
It's a classic confrontation between the large cattle baron and the farmers trying to make lives for themselves in the old west.
Shane jumps on the side of the farmers and takes off his rather stylish gunfighting garb in exchange for farming clothes.

The cattle baron brings in a hired gunfighter played by Jack Palance in probably his best role ever.
The confrontation between Shane and the Jack Palance character was an all time great.


Possibly the greatest line in the entire movie happens when the movie is ending. The little boy chasing after Shane yelling for Shane to come back home is legendary.
When the boy tries to get Shane to remain a farmer at the end, Shane tells him (my own words) that a 'man can't change and he has to be what he is'.

Obviously, like most 50s Westerns, the good guy wins out in the end and all is well.

Shane wore his gunfighting outfit into the night and remained who he was meant to be.


Like Shane, I also tried to change. Didn't work out so well for me either.

Now, I am going to be what I am.


No sense in delaying.