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Stagecoach - The Main Event in Searchers

The main event in stagecoaches is for Ford always depicted as an absence within the visual field. This is even something that's like in Shane, which we're going to talk about in a follow-up episode,. But in Shane, like one of the climactic moments is this fight between Van Helsing and Van Heflin. For the reasons you said it's thematically important, it's like every element in the scene has a value to it. And I wonder if for Wells, that might have been something that he've also thought of.

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