Heroes also have love

General 2021-12-22 08:01:07

The 100 most beautiful films in the history of film selected by the French "Cinema Manual", this film is one of only three westerns. Although the storyline is a typical Western movie type, the director has added many different elements to it, making this movie affectionate, righteous, loving, fun, and upright, different from those "one cool to the end" westerns. piece.
It is particularly worth mentioning that the role of the old cowboy added in the film is very cute and talkative all day long. Although the words are wordy and cold and humorous, they add a lot of fun to the film. The whole film is two and a half hours, and there are only a few shootouts, but the story is something that is often talked about in westerns, but along the way, there is no coldness, which shows the director's skill. To put it bluntly, in addition to grasping the rhythm of the story properly, the characterization is the secret of its success. The characters of the protagonists are refined by the director to be angular, flesh and blood, not statues. This is the most worthy reference for many movies now.

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  • John T. Chance: [explaining why Joe got beat up] He didn't take too kindly to being arrested for murder.

    Joe Burdette: It wasn't murder.

    Nathan Burdette: If he says it wasn't murder, why do you say it was?

    John T. Chance: Man gets shot that's got a gun, there's room for reasonable doubt. Man gets shot that hasn't got a gun, what would you call it? But, you knew that already otherwise you wouldn't have set things up the way you did.

    Nathan Burdette: Just what have I done?

    John T. Chance: You're a rich man, Burdette... big ranch, pay a lot of people to do what you want 'em to do. And you got a brother. He's no good but he's your brother. He committed twenty murders you'd try and see he didn't hang for 'em.

    Nathan Burdette: I don't like that kinda talk. Now you're practically accusing me...

    John T. Chance: Let's get this straight. You don't like? I don't like a lot of things. I don't like your men sittin' on the road bottling up this town. I don't like your men watching us, trying to catch us with our backs turned. And I don't like it when a friend of mine offers to help and twenty minutes later he's dead! And i don't like you, Burdette, because you set it up.

  • [after Carlos has a quarrel with Consuelo]

    John T. Chance: You take chances, my friend.

    Carlos Robante: Because I know woman. If she will be mad or she will be sorry - if it is 'mad', she will be much pleasure to make right; and if she is 'sorry', it will be the same pleasure. You... you do not have women, so you do not know, senor. But me... Carlos Robante... I know!