Raíces profundas

Título original: Shane

1953
A
1h 58min

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Alan Ladd and Brandon De Wilde in Raíces profundas (1953)

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Classical Western Drama Western

Un agotado pistolero en el Wyoming de 1880 comienza a imaginar una vida más tranquila después de entablar amistad con una familia de colonos con un hijo pequeño que lo idolatra, pero una ard... Leer todoUn agotado pistolero en el Wyoming de 1880 comienza a imaginar una vida más tranquila después de entablar amistad con una familia de colonos con un hijo pequeño que lo idolatra, pero una ardiente guerra en el campo le obliga a actuar.Un agotado pistolero en el Wyoming de 1880 comienza a imaginar una vida más tranquila después de entablar amistad con una familia de colonos con un hijo pequeño que lo idolatra, pero una ardiente guerra en el campo le obliga a actuar.

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PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb

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45 mil

TU PUNTUACIÓN

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Ganó 1 premio Óscar
- 6 premios y 12 nominaciones en total

Curiosidades
Principal photography had been completed in October, 1951, but the amount of coverage shot by George Stevens resulted in such an extremely protracted editing process that the film wasn't released until August, 1953. All this drove up the costs of what should have been a simple, straightforward Western; in fact, they spiraled so much that Paramount approached Howard Hughes about taking on the property, but he declined. He changed his mind when he saw a rough cut and offered to buy the film on the spot. This made Paramount rethink its strategy--originally it was going to release it as a "B" picture but then decided it should be one of the studio's flagship films of the year. This proved to be a good decision, as the film was a major success and easily recouped its inflated budget.

Pifias
At the beginning, when Shane rides a horse down the hill, Teton Pass Highway is visible in the background.

Citas
Shane: I gotta be going on.
Joey: Why, Shane?
Shane: A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can't break the mould. I tried it and it didn't work for me.
Joey: We want you, Shane.
Shane: Joey, there's no living with... with a killing. There's no going back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand. A brand sticks. There's no going back. Now you run on home to your mother, and tell her... tell her everything's all right. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
Joey: Shane...
[Joey notices that Shane is wounded]
Joey: It's bloody! You're hurt!
Shane: [Shane starts to stroke Joey's hair] I'm all right, Joey. You go home to your mother and father and grow up to be strong and straight. And, Joey... take care of them, both of them.
Joey: Yes, Shane.
[Shane rides off]

Créditos adicionales
Introducing Brandon De Wilde

Versiones alternativas
The film was shot in Academy Ratio (1.33:1 or 4:3), but this was done around the time widescreen filmmaking was coming around. As such, many theatres cropped the film into a widescreen ratio to take advantage of this, with many DVDs being cropped as well. The 2013 Blu-ray Disc release is in the proper Academy Ratio.

Conexiones
Edited into Go West, Young Man! (2003)

Banda sonora
Abide With Me
(uncredited)
Music by William H. Monk (1861)
Hymn by Henry F. Lyte (1847)
Played on piano and sung by many at a meeting
Also played and sung at a funeral

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7/10

The direction makes it

SHANE is an entirely visual and iconic example of the western genre that also standards as Alan Ladd's most famous role. The thing that makes this film is the direction from George Stevens, which is really something else. Stevens carefully crafts a film that looks a treat and his direction of the action sequences is second to none, making them some of the strongest of the genre. My only real complaint with this film is the incessant use of day-for-night filming; everything else is great.

The story is one of those ones which has plenty of mileage in it. Alan Ladd plays a retired gunslinger who joins up with a group of settlers, including Van Heflin who is fine in support and bags a more interesting character than Ladd's. The settlers find themselves up against Emile Meyer as the cruel Ryker, and his various men including veteran genre star Ben Johnson and Jack Palance in a truly evil, star-making performance. Elisha Cook Jr. is here too, playing a tougher character than you'd expect.

A lot of the material is told through the eyes of your typically annoying American kid, but thankfully he's not too grating and at least his heart is in the right place. There's plenty of suspense and drama to keep the tale moving, but it's the action which really hits home. The excellent climax is a given - and Eastwood would later reference it in UNFORGIVEN - but it's the bar-room brawl which is something else, one of the most powerful fist-fights I've seen on a film. Top stuff indeed.