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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Continue to read the IMDB250 series, this It is an atypical western film. Although the film was released in 1962, it is still a black and white film. I don’t understand. There were many black-and-white films in Hollywood movies in the 1960s. Why didn’t they make them in color? And the westerns are even better in color.
The story of the movie is the memory of an old man. A couple of senators came to the western town in silence to attend a friend's funeral. The reporters wanted to know who the dead man was, and the senator told a story. When the senator was young, he came to the west to make a foray into the world. He was robbed by a bully when he entered the west, was rescued by a kind man, and put him in a restaurant to recuperate. This robbery bully is famous far and wide, everyone is afraid of him, even the sheriff in the small town dare not provoke him. The senator recovers from his injuries in the restaurant and works to pay for his board and lodging expenses. The young and energetic senator is a lawyer. He wanted to use the law to punish the bully, so he opened a law firm in a small town newspaper and taught illiterate people to read. Because of the land dispute, everyone elected the senator and the newspaper president as the representatives of the town. The bully helped the opposing party because he did not become a representative of the town and threatened to show everyone a good look. At night, the bully wounded the newspaper president, and the angry senator picked up a pistol to kill the bully. With poor marksmanship, he was shot in the right hand, and then he killed the bully with his left hand. In fact, the senator’s marksmanship was so bad that he couldn’t hit it at all. It was the good-hearted man who really killed the bully. It was the good-hearted person who hid in the dark and shot the bully at the same time as the senator shot. After the death of the bully, everyone celebrated, and the presidents of the Senate and newspapers also came to the meeting. At the meeting, everyone elected the senator as the representative of the continent. He slipped away because he thought he was a murderer. The kind-hearted man told him the truth and discouraged him from taking this responsibility. In this way, the senator's story is over. After the meeting, he became the first governor of the state, and he held many positions one after another, all the reporters knew. In addition, the senator also robbed the well-wished woman, that is, his current wife, which the reporter did not know. The person who died was the kind person, the kind person who saved his life. After the funeral, the senator and his wife recalled this and decided to return to live in the small town, and the movie ended in this way.
The story of this film takes place in the west, but it's not a typical Western movie that fights and kills. The protagonist of this film is not a gunner with precise marksmanship, but a weak scholar who is not knowledgeable about world affairs and has no power to restrain chickens. The theme of the film is also deeper than other westerns, and it explores the opposition between law and violence. The senator is the incarnation of the law. He idealizes everything. He regards the law as the standard to maintain social notarization and rejects those who use violence. A kind-hearted person is the representative of violence. He represents the forces of justice, but his methods are violence against violence. In his eyes, the law is only a clause on the document and has no effect. The conflict of these two concepts constitutes the main contradiction of the film, which makes people have to think about whether to use the law to punish criminals in that era and environment? Or use violence to counter violence? The film gives the answer-the use of violence to control violence is an effective method. Only by using violence can we ensure the lives of good people and protect them from evil forces. This is the real society, and even the senator, the incarnation of the law, finally took up a pistol and fought the bully to the death.
However, the experience of the senator has demonstrated the function of civilized society law. Violence cannot bring prosperity and peace to ordinary people, nor can it bring the right of autonomy. Only by exercising their rights through the law and through a civilized society can they bring qualitative changes to their lives. Violence can only solve the problem for a while, but it cannot solve the whole life. Just as war can never bring peace, violence cannot solve all problems once and for all. Through this film, we can see that violence can solve real problems, and civilized legal methods can solve group and complex problems. Of course, the premise is that these are all happening in a civilized and legal society. If it is in a country with an imperfect legal system, no way can solve the problem.
In addition, the friendship between the senator’s husband and wife and the good-hearted person described in the movie is the traditional emotion between the savior and the old friend, which are all traditional human emotions. These emotions have appeared in many movies, and they are not new. In general, the film focuses on the two lifestyles, the conflict between the two people, and the changes they make to each other. The character of the good-hearted man is actually secondary, he is only to cause that youthful past. Of course, the movie also brought deep thinking to the audience.
The whole movie is full of sadness. From the beginning of the movie, the dialogue between the senator's husband and wife and the people and the feelings about some things have brought this atmosphere into it. With the end of the story, the conversation between the senator and his wife on the train has pushed the sad atmosphere of the film to the top, which can completely make the movie viewers cry. Although I don't have one, when I think about the plot of the movie, there is a feeling of being right and wrong. I can’t help but remind me of Ouyang Xiu’s "Sheng Chazi". "Last Yuan Ye last year, the flower market lights were like the day. The willows on the moon, and people meet after dusk. At the Yuan Ye this year, the moon and the lights are still the same. I didn’t see the people of last year, tears. Wet spring shirt sleeves." If the senator in the movie knew this phrase, he would feel the same with me.
The actor of this film is James Stewart, he is very suitable to play the role of a passionate young man. Although he is older in this movie, he still gives people a young momentum. Recall that he starred in "Mr. Smith to Washington" and "How Beautiful is Life", the characters in the film all have persistent and serious character, exactly the same as this film, James Stewart has become the spokesperson of the passionate youth. He is indeed qualified for this kind of role, and his temperament contains this kind of "hot-blooded" quality. So when James Stewart plays other roles, it doesn't feel like the same thing. For example, after watching "Imperial Soul", his performance in it is very weak. The other actor in this film is John Wayne, a very good western actor, but he doesn't watch much of his movies, and in this film he is very old and lacks a spirit. See the movies of John Wayne when he was young in the future, and enjoy it again. The heroine of the film is Vera Miles, with a very beautiful face, a typical European and American classical beauty, but unfortunately there is nothing outstanding, the only highlight is beauty. See more Hollywood movies, and see more such beauties. Women, they have to have their own characteristics in order to survive. Who can remember such popular faces and acting skills as Vera Miles? I definitely can't remember.
By the way, the translation of this movie hurts me again. What is meant by "two tigers slaying dragons"? Where did the tiger come from? Where did the dragon come from? Also "double tiger", be funny. The other "Who Killed Rebet Valence" is not so good. Who is Rebet Valence? There is no such person in the movie, damn it. What a mess this is, in short, anyone who translates the name of the movie can go to death.
In short, this film describes the changes a young man brings to the town and the changes that people make to young people in the town. It also shows the conflict between violence and the law. This is also a sad movie to let people watch. People who want to find sad plots are very suitable for watching this film.
Vera Miles
Vera Miles
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2011-08-27
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