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Liberty Valance


‘The Man Who Shot ’ is both optimistic and pessimistic. It is unsatisfactory to call the film plain optimistic, which it was in the middle of the movie, as the beginning but more so the end was pessimistic. The middle of the film was optimistic because it showed the joyous personalities of the people and about ten minutes from the end of Ransom Stoddard’s flashback, film reached it’s climax when was killed. On the pessimistic side of the film however, is what has become of Shinbone after Liberty’s death. When Liberty died, so too did every body living his way, which included the film’s unsung hero, Tom Doniphon. When Stoddard came back to Shinbone, the town was definitely less lively, due ...

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and his ability not to be manipulated by anyone including . However, when Senator Stoddard came back for Doniphon’s funeral, no one knew who Doniphon was. He died with Liberty. The even sadder thing was that he killed his own self in a sense, as he killed Liberty. The audience was meant to feel this, though as the free and violent way of living can be unorthodox and can be undone easier than law and order, in this case it was undone by itself. His ways would have died out over time, however, as modernism does spread quickly, but he was the favorite of Shinbone, he had a girl and a nice house was nearly ready for him and Halle to move into but lost it all – because his way of living didn’t prevail.
The place of ’s death was no coincidence. He died outside the saloon under the banner, which stated ‘Mass Meeting – Elections’. When Liberty died, this allowed for meetings to be held, elections to take place and all the other things that a modern society would do. Normally modernism ...

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Added: 7/10/2006 06:32:44 AM
Category: American History
Type: Free Paper
Words: 549
Pages: 2

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