Shane
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1953 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | George Stevens |
| Cast | Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon DeWilde, Jack Palance |
| Genre | Western |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Shane | – |
| Español | Shane | Shane |
| Français | L’Homme des vallées perdues | L’Homme des vallées perdues |
| Deutsch | Mein großer Freund Shane | Mein großer Freund Shane |
| Português | Shane | Shane |
| Italiano | Il cavaliere della valle solitaria | Il cavaliere della valle solitaria |
| Русский | Шейн | Sheyn |
| 中文（简体） | 原野奇侠 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 原野奇俠 | – |
| 한국어 | 셰인 | Syein |
| ไทย | Shane | Shane |
| Tiếng Việt | Shane | Shane |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Shane | Shane |
| 日本語 | シェーン | Shēn |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 frontier settlement in which protective violence and peaceful belonging collide within a disappearing gunfighter myth
■ Synopsis
A mysterious former gunfighter protects a homesteader family from violent cattlemen, then leaves the peaceful world he helped preserve.
■ RECIPE Tags
#ProtectiveViolence #Unbelonging #FrontierMyth #PeaceThroughExile #MoralGunfighter
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: The outsider as protector
Reason: The armed stranger enters a vulnerable community and becomes its temporary shield.
Related Film: Pale Rider - Middle: Violence used to defend peace
Reason: The peaceful order can survive only through a force it cannot finally include.
Related Film: High Noon - Core: The savior who cannot remain
Reason: The conclusion places the violent protector outside the domestic world he saves.
Related Film: The Searchers
■ Secondary Axes
- Founding myth: Civil order is built by violence that later must be disowned or mythologized.
Related Film: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Irreversible gunfighter identity: A man shaped by violence cannot fully return to ordinary life.
Related Film: Unforgiven
■ Person
- Director: George Stevens
- Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon DeWilde, Jack Palance
■ Structural Tags
#ProtectorExile #FrontierTransition #ViolenceBoundary
■ Attribute Tags
#AmericanFilm #1953Film #WesternFilm
