Just a comparison between The Proud Rebel and SHANE.
Characters are nearly the same. In SHANE: a wandering tough guy, a farmer, farmer's wife, boy, dog, cattle-breeder villains. In TPR the farmer is deleted and the wife becomes a she-farmer thus removing any moral question with the protagonist, the boy is moved to the wandering guy and afflicted with post-traumatic aphasia to keep the father under strain, and dog's character is enhanced. These changes water down the reasons for the final confrontation (not one murder and another attempted as with Shane), avoid any moral issue and open the way to the happy end with villains' death (only the strictly necessary ones) and the boy's recovery. Happy end a little phony with a hostile law enforcer in a northern town and a surviving brother ...
However, most likely the audience perceives more the similar characters than the difference.
An analysis of the main plot (see the 20 Master Plots) shows that this latter shift from "Sacrifice" (Shane gives up a quiet life and maybe a family) to a plot that is a mixture between "Rivalry" and "Underdog".
Characters are nearly the same. In SHANE: a wandering tough guy, a farmer, farmer's wife, boy, dog, cattle-breeder villains. In TPR the farmer is deleted and the wife becomes a she-farmer thus removing any moral question with the protagonist, the boy is moved to the wandering guy and afflicted with post-traumatic aphasia to keep the father under strain, and dog's character is enhanced. These changes water down the reasons for the final confrontation (not one murder and another attempted as with Shane), avoid any moral issue and open the way to the happy end with villains' death (only the strictly necessary ones) and the boy's recovery. Happy end a little phony with a hostile law enforcer in a northern town and a surviving brother ...
However, most likely the audience perceives more the similar characters than the difference.
An analysis of the main plot (see the 20 Master Plots) shows that this latter shift from "Sacrifice" (Shane gives up a quiet life and maybe a family) to a plot that is a mixture between "Rivalry" and "Underdog".