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3. Analyze either part of the schoolroom sequence, a part of the Shinebone election sequence, or corrected flashback sequence
(the flashback near the end of the film that reveals who shot Liberta Valance). You may wish to review the "Shot list of a Key Sequence from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" in Resources.
- Whichever sequence you pick, choose five or six important details, such as point of view, a close up, a cutaway or insert,
aspects of clothing, setting or gesture, a camera movement, a character's entrance or exit, etc.
- In writing an interpretation of your several chosen details,
show how each works to help build up the central conflict of the scene: the conflict in the culture of the West in a specific moment of its history
between the values of democratic law and order on the one hand and those frontier individualism and survival in the wilderness on the other.
- Which values win out in your particular scene or sequence? How? Which values win out in the film as a whole? why?
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