Shane is a great film, and the titular character is one of the greatest trolls of the screen. Basically he's a poker-faced chameleon who turns up in a small farming town town one day and immediately emasculates a local farmer and gains the affections of his wife and the undying and creepy admiration of his little boy, one of the most annoying kids in film history who repeatedly shouts "Shane, shaaane" in a grating monotonous twang. Jake Lloyd is positively restrained compared to this kid, although thankfully he doesn't ask Shane if he's an angel, and thankfully it doesn't spoil a great film. Shane immediately stirs up the local rancher land baron who wants to take all the land for himself. In my favourite scene of the film, he walks into a bar and orders a soda pop. Ben Johnson who is sitting drinking chortles at the choice of beverage and confronts him, splashing him with his drink. Later in the film Shane, deceptively strong and vicious, totally whips him in a bar fight, before doing what the local townsfolk can't by killing Riker and his henchmen as the kid watches, before heading into the mountains to die. I don't think he went to die though, and he probably made it to the other side to troll other territories.
I feel like that little kid, in awe of Shane's charm and prowess at manipulating simpletons.
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