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Chaya 2021-12-30 17:21:45
Film micro-review: Double Tigers Slaying Dragons
A feature film dressed in a western coat. Traditional stages such as gun battles and fights are pitiful. This film tells the story of a moment when the American West moves from chaos and disorder to a peaceful legal system. Bandits and rangers have gradually become history. Although democracy and...
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Elisha 2021-12-30 17:21:45
Two Tigers Slaying the Dragon
Ransom, a weak and stubborn lawyer and scholar, created the original West. With the help of the first cowboy Tom, he finally killed the villain Liberty. Ransom successfully sat on the council and embraced the beauty. Tom died alone. The western master John Ford’s The film reveals the resentment and...
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Jacklyn 2022-04-22 07:01:32
[Original Sound] The translation was misleading, thinking it was a twilight hero Western, but it turned out to be the "main theme" of the handover of power with Qimin thinking. Both Ford and Wayne were Republicans, but the turn of the film (Ford was disabled and old at the time) also reflected a changing era. The traditional western begins to think about new categories and expressions, but the core of it remains (tom shoot, call your own). The title is singular, the translation really loses that desolation
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Juston 2022-04-20 09:01:48
I'd like to add one star to this bittersweet ending. The eternal motif of this genre of Western films: the wheel of history rolls forward, and the heroic and narrow sense bred in the wilderness will eventually be replaced by civilization and the rule of law. Depressed and silently exited the stage. This theme always strikes me again and again. In addition, the film's portrayal of the ugliness of democracy is also very vivid. PS I looked through the director's portfolio, I was desperate, and felt that I could announce that I had never seen a Western at all.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance quotes
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High Pockets: Well, Mr. Professor. I thought you left town. What are you doin' out here?
Ransom Stoddard: I'm waiting for Liberty Valance. Why doesn't he come out?
Kaintuck: Well, th-th-that's n-n-none of our b-b-b-business.
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Tom Doniphon: Liberty Valance's the toughest man south of the Picketwire - next to me.