Three bullets.
Why are three bullets? The intuitive point of view, of course, is based on narrative considerations: only if the magazine of this revolver is half full, can it create a suspense effect similar to Russian roulette, especially the black cruel humor of dying struggling to fire three empty guns in a row. But behind it is the Coen brothers' criticism of excessive violence. In the earlier plot of the film, we saw that when the heroine went home to pick up the gun, the bullets were separated, and there were only three bullets in the box. From the subsequent progress of the private detective’s fire-night inspection footage, it was learned that the heroine did have three bullets loaded, but it did not fill it up! Obviously, holding a gun is only for self-defense, even her husband, so he thinks that three bullets are enough.
And this kind of implicit expression cannot be transplanted into Zhang Yimou's remake because the revolver could not appear in ancient western China. But the concept itself is indeed very important (and the main reason for spending 2 million US dollars to buy the copyright remake), it must be the beginning of the film. No way, Director Zhang had to bluntly added the firing section. Trying to simulate the full capacity of the pistol with the power of the cannonballs, and then use the blackened face of the Persian merchants after the cannons were fired to express excessive violence and harm to others.
An index finger was
buried alive during the orgasm scene, and the gun was left empty after three clicks. It seems that fate is playing tricks, but in fact it has its own way. You can see from the picture: the middle finger that pulls the trigger is not the index finger that people are accustomed to using. Just imagine, when life and death are at stake, if you use the most flexible index finger to pull, will it still be the slow and laborious speed shown in the film? Sure, there are six reincarnations, and you are mostly empty, and there are at least two greetings on your body. What happened to the barkeeper’s index finger? Cut off by his wife! In the cruel game of this round, the lover recovered a small life by relying on the brave self-defense of his former lover.
The two suggestions are
even more tragic. If you follow the female protagonist’s advice from the beginning, such a risk will not even happen at all. Back to the gun bridge near the beginning of the film. After the hostess got the gun, she gave two suggestions to her lover: 1. Find a motel. 2. Don't go back to the bar. Did the other party accept it? No! His decision is: the hostess will return to his house for a temporary stay, and he will directly go back to the bar to ask for a salary!
Asking for a salary is a matter of course, but after sleeping with someone’s wife, he still has the face to ask for the mere two weeks of arrears, which is really a bit of a brainstorm. No wonder the boss turned his face on the spot. But he turned his face and turned his face. At this time, he was still not intent on killing, and even the urge to punch him was forcibly endured. This can be seen as cowardice from a negative point of view, or as rational from a commendatory point of view. It is not the kind of reckless man who will kill you if you set fire to a fire. Of course, a serious verbal warning is indispensable, "If you let me see you again, don't blame the shooting!" Takeaway uses subjective assumptions to fabricate excuses to restore face for the humiliation of the green hat, "...the most ridiculous of all the ridiculous is , You actually thought that she came back for you?" But the
following set of rhetoric that his wife was classified as a "femme beauty", even the boss himself has a guilty conscience. Otherwise, a phone call (the phone is an important narrative motif in the film) will not be sent to the lover's home to try it out soon. It was the hostess who answered the phone, he heard the voice, and he felt a little in his heart: It's over! It was true love. It turns out that in the eyes of my wife, I'm not even as good as a barman who works at a time... Attention! The boss still didn't want to kill at this time. And the phone test out of a guilty conscience just echoed the previous heroine's suggestion 1-find a motel! If the lover accepted the suggestion at that time, then the phone call to the lover's home would naturally not be answered, and the jealousy in the boss's heart would naturally not be irritated.
Dead fish·Photo·Lighter
The few dead fish on the table originally came from the private investigator’s suggestion that the employer Marty made enough off-site evidence for fishing income. In the end, they suppressed the lighter on the table and became evidence that the detective himself appeared at the crime scene. This is black cruel humor. However, the lighter is only a tidbit of the murderous transaction, the feature film is about: mutual fraud between the two parties in the transaction. Talking about "trust", but they are all betraying each other-the killer shot and killed the employer, trying to frame the affair with men and women; the employer stole a photo under the guise of vomiting in the bathroom, and then opened the safe Withdraw the money and hide it. And this is just one part of the boss's anti-framing plan...
The deep dislike of private investigators comes from the humiliation received during the two meetings. For the first time, the adultery was searched for evidence, and he took photos of the same-bed intimacy on his own terms, jokingly saying it was a "extra benefit". For the second time, in the suburban car, facing the index finger that had just been broken, he spoke of the "waiting for the wife to wipe the ass" in a more mocking tone, and laughed wildly. The double humiliation and the alibi to prove its logical fragility (had the police never heard of buying a murderer?) made the boss think of blaming him. And the recording phone calls of the black bar staff after a few bridges are the key to linking up the whole plan:
1. When buying a murderous transaction, the detective once asked the boss how to cover the purchasing expenses? The boss replied that it was done.
2. How to get it done? Leave a message on the phone to the black buddy, and the lover swept away the cash in the safe because he was unsuccessful in asking for a salary. And this cash will soon be in the hands of detectives as compensation for murder.
3. When the black rushed to his lover's house, he must see two corpses and called the police in terror.
4. Coupled with the stolen photo, the whole murder case may turn into: during the process of collecting evidence for adultery, the detective bumped into the adulterer to retrieve the stolen money, and the murderous heart...
Regardless of whether the plan is to follow the above steps, at least one thing is certain: the boss is much smarter than the detective thinks. The only thing the boss didn't expect was that the private detective was more ruthless than he thought! As the saying goes, evil is one foot high, and evil is two feet high. One evil is even more evil. The killer turning his gun to kill his employer belongs to a specific “anti-American plot” (it appeared in Cohen's own "Old Nowhere" and Leonie's classic "The Good, the Bad, and the Bad). Why do you say that? Because the United States is a business, and the most important thing in a business is integrity. Since the integrity is broken so far, is it still a matter of wind? !
It was not the missing photo that caused the detective to return to the scene of the murder. When destroying the photo, he did not notice that there was at least one in the envelope. It’s just that I couldn’t touch the lighter when I lighted the cigarette. I suddenly realized that I might have been left at the scene of the murder... But let’s assume: the detective acted meticulously, did not leave the lighter behind, and thought he had committed a perfect murder, waiting for the police to frame him Cheating men and women arrested and brought to justice... How will the follow-up of the story develop?
1. The body of the bar owner Marty was found, or even though there was no body (disposed by the lover), he reported to the police with a mysterious disappearance.
2. After receiving the report, the police carefully surveyed the scene and checked the relics, naturally including opening the safe. So I found that picture.
3. Using the clues provided by the photo, transfer the suspected target from an affair to a private detective.
In this version without missing lighters, both parties in the buying and selling transaction have become the biggest losers-one kills and the other loses the law. It was precisely the loss of the lighter that caused the detective to return to the murder scene for the second time. When the search was unsuccessful (under the dead fish), it was accidentally found that both the corpse and the pistol were missing! So I stopped waiting and acted quickly.
At the same time, the black man heard the message and drove directly to his lover’s house and angrily denounced, causing the latter to return to the bar three times, opened the safe and found the photo, vaguely aware of the incident, but at the same time, he was also watched. The detective outside is staring straight... and this can almost be regarded as karma for burying the boss alive before the lover!
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When you think that everything is on your own, everything should be like this, or everything is under control, it often means that unforeseen disasters are coming. The detective considered himself a perfect murder, but he did not expect the boss to hide the photo, and did not really kill him, nor did he expect the lover to return to the bar; the boss thought he was a perfect culprit, or he felt a pistol in the wilderness and thought he had a chance to fight back. But I didn't expect the detective to attack first, nor did I expect that his index finger was broken, and he took three empty shots in a row; the lover thought that asking for pay had nothing to do with affair, and that the boss must be killed by the heroine, so he hurriedly removed the corpse. Unexpectedly, the truth is far from this.
It's just that the trajectory of destiny is arranged like this, although it is clear enough, it is relatively monotonous. As a result, the Coen brothers conceived opportunities for the three men to delay the trend to varying degrees on the premise of irreversible destruction. These opportunities not only enrich the narrative, but also echo the theme: all come from the weakness of men and the inability to grasp in action. In other words, a blessing in disguise-although only temporarily. Why can the boss successfully trick the detective to steal the photo? Because he was sick, he vomited, so he suddenly got up and ran into the bathroom with a photo album in his hand, which would not arouse suspicion. Why did the detective return to the crime scene twice in time, and avoid thinking that it was a perfect murder and wait for the police to come (as analyzed above)? Because he left the lighter. The lover stuffed the pistol into the boss's pocket when the body was removed. This imprudent action was also rewarded by the heroine’s love for him, so there were three empty guns... In
contrast, The heroine who became the final winner has a much greater "weakness" than the three men: she is always at a loss and ignorant. Even at the moment of shooting down the opponent, I still don’t know that her husband Marty is dead, and that someone else fell down the wall-that’s why the last scene has to be specially arranged as a “wall that doesn’t meet each other.” Fight against each other"... But this kind of ignorance is not a blessing that is usually based on mental retardation. On the contrary, from the perspective of the film, the female protagonist has shown extremely high acuity and action in the overall situation judgment and real-time crisis response. That's why she can: 1. On the first night of the film, she found a car following through the rearview mirror. 2. Remind the lover not to go back to the bar. 3. Encountered violent coercion by her husband, decisively defended himself and broke his fingers. 4. Seeing that the lover was killed, he fell down quickly, and smashed the light bulb with high heels... The heroine's ignorance was only incomprehensible to the treacherous and changeable male world formed by arrogance, hatred, greed, cruelty and other human ugliness.
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