The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance examines the Old West in a flashback. It compares and contrasts how the past emerges into the present. As viewers, we are trying to understand how the forces of civilization, now the present, can conquest “the law of the West,” from the past. In the duration of the present, the heroes of the Old West are only called a myth. There are three different individuals in the movie. There is Ransom Stoddard, Tom Doniphon, and Liberty Valence. Random Stoddard is an attorney of law from the East, who went to the West convinced that he could administer justice through the knowledge of law and his books. Tom Doniphon is the “good” Westerner, who is known for his skills as a gunfighter and Liberty Valance is the “bad”…

masculinity. In the film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford demonstrates that Western societies often forced those roles onto males. Masculinity, being a remarkable characteristic to display, seems to be connected with his morals. Morals relate to the person’s decision-making, either with confrontation or emotions about a situation, personal beliefs will be strongly expressed by their morals. Repeatedly receiving criticism from peers you will begin to change your views about yourself…

John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a depiction of an inescapable transition where the society is transformed from an old and wild social order to a modern and organized one. In this film, Ford brings to perspective the society in the past and how it died as a result of modernization. The western frontier ideals are brought to light with the transition from a lawless social order embodied by the gunslingers into a modern society governed by law and order (Ebert). The inevitable…

The first thing I noticed about The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was how the camera remained mostly objective for the entire movie. I thought that this was interesting since the story is mainly told through the perspective of Ransom Stoddard who seems to be the main character and yet I don’t think there’s a moment in the film where we get a shot entirely from just his perspective. I wonder if this had been done on purpose to remove the viewer from the action on screen and allow them to have a…

Ford’s film, “The Man Who Shot Liberty of Valance” is a depiction of an inevitable transition whereby the society is transformed from an old social order to a modern one. In this film, Ford brings to perspective the society that he created in the past and how it died as a result of the new transition in form of modernization. In this film, the western frontier ideals are brought to light with the transition from an old social order characterized by lawlessness embodied by the gunslingers into a…

The movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford seems to greatly stand out from other movies released during this era. Many elements were compiled to make this movie unique. The backbone of the film stems from camera elements. John Ford used the camera elements of camera work as well as costumes and make-up to accurately portray his vision of the film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, incorporates several different varieties of…

“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” contains many of the ideas that we have discussed about the American Frontier and the role it has played in shaping America. The movie illustrates the idea from Turner’s Frontier Thesis that as Americans settled past the frontier and into the “savage” west, society had to start over and go through the process of rebuilding itself. The movie’s plot depicts the death of the “Wild West” caused by Rance’s influence in the town. At the start of the movie, Ranse…

Liberty is under attack. Liberty was the principle on which America was founded and now this essential part of American life is under siege. In “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”, it becomes clear how guns and liberty had a synchronous relationship. In the West, people had to bear arms to protect themselves, their property, and their beliefs. This becomes clear in “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” when Ransom Stoddard takes up arms to defend himself and his beliefs. Firearms were how people…

Civil War. Pippin uses three significant western films, which are Red River, The Man Who Shot Liberty and The Searchers, as examples. He explains and analyses different politics and histories in these films. Assess: Pippin’s book gives a distinguishing feature to the western films. He analyses each character’s personality and meaning of his or her actions in these films to explain what politics…