Shane to Rhyker: "You've lived too long- your kind of days are over."
Rhyker has a touche retort to Shane but Shane follows with, "The difference between us is I know my time has past." Rhyker stubbornly refuses to accept needed change since he fought long and hard with losses of men to make open range cattle ranching profitable whereas Shane knows being a hired gun is no longer viable. A very rueful denouement for this powerful film.
Good, and I think correct, point.
There's a triangle here, with the Rykers and Shane being the two sides of the Old West, meeting at the other point the farmers of the New West. There's a similar thing going on in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, with Lee Marvin's Liberty and John Wayne's Tom representing the same Old West relationship between them, in their atitude towards the New West, represented by James Stewart's Rance, and the town he comes to represent.
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I'll check out Liberty Valance. I was always a big Marvin fan but not so much with Wayne. I have a DVD of Marvin playing Hickey in THE ICEMAN COMETH. There is no way in hell Wayne would have tackled such a daunting role. Marvin must have been crazy to accept but he did it and did a good job in my opinion.
shareWayne was great in it, perfect for the complex part.
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