mortal hero

Shirley 2022-04-20 09:01:41

It's another old movie that we meet too late, one of the most classic westerns, with limited characters and scenes, it deduces a hymn of a lonely hero.
I really like this kind of classic with a small pattern. I only put the tension between a few conflicts and characters, let beliefs collide with each other, let desires tear each other, and finally let ideals and humanity win. For example, a sci-fi film "Moon" that I am very fond of, and another classic "Twelve Angry Men" that are not old, they are often able to overcome complexity with simplicity and show their brilliance. The screenwriter of the film is very good. They set the time between the film and reality and put the suspense within an hour and a half before noon. It is said that the release time was also arranged before noon, which is really interesting.
Americans were heavily influenced by heroism in the era of Westerns, and this influence continues in most Hollywood films today. One Man has always been everyone's favorite, like Indiana Jones, like James Bond. At noon, the sheriff chose to face danger because of his responsibility, but was betrayed by everyone and forced to face the villain alone. At this point in the movie, I was really still wondering how it would end. Maybe I forgot it was a Hollywood Western. In the movie, the goddess Grace Kelly says that her brother and father died at gunpoint for doing the right thing, so she doesn't care what's right or wrong, just the outcome, but she still ends up with the sheriff to the side. It's a pity that the hero won again. The villains have taken advantage of the time and place, but they are still no match for the heroes with halo.
To be honest I don't believe it, I really don't believe it. The ending of this movie is that heroes must die, and I always thought that. The power of reality is far stronger than you think, and it would be good to be able to fight with him to lose both. Don't think that the braver the hero is, the more arrogant the hero is. The real heroes are very smart, and few of these real heroes survived. I remember a sentence in a comic, heroes are people who will not compromise with reality for the sake of ideals, and they all die prematurely on the road to ideals. That's right, it's not negative energy, it's A pushes B, B pushes C! Then A pushes out C, which is logic.
Heroes must die.
2015.3.21 Chapter 4, written by Hu

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Extended Reading
  • Eloy 2022-04-21 09:02:06

    The cowardice and hypocrisy of human nature are piercing brightly in the noon sun. The old sheriff is not not afraid, not trying to be a hero, but the reality makes him face the four villains alone, seek justice but be excluded, and now it still looks like Looking in the mirror. Gary Cooper has a kind of affinity and firmness, and Grace Kelly in the shape of a village girl is not so good-looking.

  • Anabelle 2021-12-08 08:01:39

    Humanity, exposed to the scorching light of noon

High Noon quotes

  • [to his wife]

    Sam: Well, whaddya want? Do you want me to get killed? Do you want to be a widow, is that what you want?

  • [to Deputy Harvey Pell]

    Joe: I knew you had guts but I never figured you for brains. It takes a pretty smart man to know when to back away.