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This is one of my favorite movies it is based on a true incident that happened in California, I feel this movie shows a little more of how we as human beings act when when we get caught up in a lie. How normally good people can easily turn into monsters. A perfect movie about mob mentality. It also shows how a victim of mob mentality if they survive becomes just as bad as their tormentors. That aspect was not explored in the Ox Bow incident. Fury is a tragedy in the true sense of the word A nice guy who because a victim. I also believe no one but Fritz Lang could of made this movie, being where he just came from. The part of the trial when the prosecutor shows these seemingly nice people were caught on tape acting like fools is one of my favorite scenes ever.

The Ox bow incident is also a great movie. But I feel the leaders of the mob/posse were already trouble makers. They were not going to listen to anybody and I felt even if they knew they guys were innocent they were still going to kill them because of their egos. One wanted his son to see him as a hero and for him to act like a man. It did show how people followed the leader like lambs. Also afterward when they find out that another group of men were caught it was more a feeling of embarrassment then remorse.

I like "Fury" a lot more, though "Ox-Bow Incident" isn't bad. I think Fury is a lot more realistic (and therefore, is scarier and more powerful) because it takes place in a more modern era than Ox-Bow does. It's more modern, so we can relate to it a lot more; the innocent victim in Fury is an ordinary, everyday man like any guy we might know, rather than some Wild West-era dude, like the victims in "Ox-Bow" were, and I think that helps us relate to it even more. And it has a much stronger reaction in us when he goes through what he does.

You should also include SOUND OF FURY (1950), based on the true incident. More factual than FURY, and far more grim.