Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
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The man who shot liberty Valance, captivating from start to finish it isn't just a story about the good and bad, but it asks about them; who determines good and bad sprinkled with political stakes and media plays. At the core of our question is 3 characters ransoms stuttered; He is education, law, progress, and the modern masculinity. Tom doniphon; He's uneducated law and violence, his sense of justice stands from honor and his violence is for noble cause, he is the old masculinity, rigid and static. liberty valence; lawlessness and cruelty incarnated, the force of evil that needs to be tamed. but how do we tame it? through words and law or with fire and blood My answer is both, just as the movie depicts, an event can be facts and myth. It all depends on which side of the system you belong to, for the masses and the commoners, America was built on law and through words, a myth that…