Print the Legend: The Man Shot Liberty Valance -- 1a - class 31

Published: April 26, 2016, 7:39 p.m.

b'The one film in the class. \\xa0"Print the legend," as a commentary on the kinds of movies Ford makes. \\xa0Flashback and truth in fiction. \\xa0Showing vs. telling. \\xa0Who did shoot Liberty? The two scenes of his death. \\xa0Flashback within flashback. \\xa0Woody Strode (Pompey). \\xa0What is he doing in the second scene? \\xa0Why does it matter?\\nWhat we didn\'t get to: the way Vera Miles seems to have learned the story as we do. \\xa0We assume she now knows what we now know, though of course she (presumably) didn\'t know it before whereas now she (presumably) did know it before. \\xa0Still we read it as though she\'s learned it as we have, during the present time of the movie. \\xa0The alteration of the back story as the story is told.'