Shane and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid reflect one side of the same coin. They both exist as Westerns, but both offer something different to the genre. The first thing was immediately apparent about Shane was the gorgeous backdrop of the valley outstretching creating a wide beautiful vita all the way up into the mountains. The framework of the story is a very simple ranchers vs. homesteader’s tale. While the idea is not exactly new, the way the story handles the character of Alan Ladd, who plays Shane a mysterious past and effect on this small group of people is interesting. The film decides to take this more personal route then focus on heavy gunfights. Shane is a man who is trying to escape the frontier of the west and his past.