Who is the sharpshooter? ? ?

Clovis 2022-04-19 09:01:45

If I remember correctly, four people were killed in the film. Jesse's cousin and himself were both killed by Bob, and both were shot in the head. Therefore, Bob's reputation as the sharpshooter in people's minds seems well-deserved. But if the audience thinks about it carefully, they will find that Bob was standing behind both of them when he killed them, and the other party had almost no defense. At such a close distance, he hit each other. The head isn't really that great. A real sharpshooter not only needs excellent marksmanship, but also good psychological quality is especially important when facing a strong opponent. And that's exactly what Bob doesn't have. He's only 20 years old. After all, he's still a kid. His nervous, undisguised eyes and facial expressions are like a psychological graph hanging on the wall. Jesse pierces it. All in all, he's both Jesse's obsessive admirer and Jesse's guide to hell. He's cowardly, he's cowardly, he just killed Jesse for an excuse that doesn't make any sense, he's a gunman at best.
Jesse, by contrast, is a man who never leaves his revolver, whether you sneak up from behind while he is taking a shower, or sneak up from his side in the middle of the night when he is asleep, he is always better than you. Intuition, this strong sense of crisis not only made him an excellent gang leader, but also always extended his life in times of crisis. But the life of escape is always painful. His physical condition is getting worse and worse, and the members of the gang are leaving. He can't see the hope and happiness, so that after tearing the little boy's ears Crying in pain, no one can read its inner monologue, he is so lonely and desperate. In the end, he chose a philosophical way to end his life: his daughter's verse became a death book, the lost shoes ended the way he walked in the past, and the dusty picture scroll was his soul stained. The gunshots sounded, and everything seemed to be... redeemed!
At the end of the film, I looked back and looked at the movie's promotional poster. The man with a revolver on his waist, wearing a black coat, and walking in the wheat field, was a little melancholy and a little vicissitudes...

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  • Afton 2022-03-24 09:01:41

    i shot jesse james 1964 Samuel fuller

  • Shania 2022-04-23 07:01:49

    boring ~ disappointed ~

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford quotes

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    Narrator: He was growing into middle age, and was living then in a bungalow on Woodland Avenue. He installed himself in a rocking chair and smoked a cigar down in the evenings as his wife wiped her pink hands on an apron and reported happily on their two children. His children knew his legs, the sting of his mustache against their cheeks. They didn't know how their father made his living, or why they so often moved. They didn't even know their father's name. He was listed in the city directory as Thomas Howard. And he went everywhere unrecognized and lunched with Kansas City shopkeepers and merchants, calling himself a cattleman or a commodities investor, someone rich and leisured who had the common touch. He had two incompletely healed bullet holes in his chest and another in his thigh. He was missing the nub of his left middle finger and was cautious, lest that mutilation be seen. He also had a condition that was referred to as "granulated eyelids" and it caused him to blink more than usual as if he found creation slightly more than he could accept. Rooms seemed hotter when he was in them. Rains fell straighter. Clocks slowed. Sounds were amplified. He considered himself a Southern loyalist and guerrilla in a Civil War that never ended. He regretted neither his robberies, nor the seventeen murders that he laid claim to. He had seen another summer under in Kansas City, Missouri and on September 5th in the year 1881, he was thirty-four-years-old.

  • Narrator: And so it went, Jesse was increasingly cavalier. Merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. He camouflaged his depressions and derangements with masquerades of extreme cordiality, courtesy, and goodwill towards others. But Even as he jested or tickled his boy in the ribs, Jesse would look over at Bob with melancholy eyes as if the two were meshed in an intimate communication. Bob was certain that the man had unriddled him; had seen through his reasons for coming along; that Jesse could forecast each of Bob's possible moves and inclinations and was only acting the innocent in order to lull Bob into a stupid tranquility and miscalculation.