To be honest, after reading the title of the play, whether it's the English "yellowstone" or the literal translation of the name "Yellowstone", I thought it was a documentary about nature. As far as I know, Yellowstone is a world-renowned geopark with no other significant labels and symbols. Unlike Paris, which is endowed with romance, New York is endowed with prosperity, and Malan Mountain is endowed with entertainment. Therefore, simply taking "Yellowstone" as the title is too easy to be ignored by the audience. Based on the current two episodes of the plot, I feel that the name can be more relevant and eye-catching (at least when it is translated) , "Yellowstone's Heirs", such as "Yellowstone's Past: Broken Horse Cowboy". I've come up with so many spoofs at random. After a little brainstorming by the crew or the translation team, I'm sure I can come up with a name that is a million times better than "Yellowstone".
Let's start talking about the plot, themes, and characterization. Friends who are disgusted with spoilers can move on.
The first two episodes used a lot of space to introduce the background and characters. The Dutton Group has been managing a reserved land near Yellowstone, focusing on raising livestock and striving to maintain the natural ecology. Another consortium, together with some government officials, wants to expand, regardless of whether it will affect the environment. In this regard, the two sides had conflicts and refused to give in to each other, and then forged a relationship in the conflict.
In terms of theme, I saw in the short comments that everyone said that this drama presents the contradiction between man and nature, the contradiction between modernization and maintaining tradition, and the contradiction between white people and Indians. Of course, there are all these, but as far as my impression of the first two episodes is concerned, The most important thing to consider is family relationships.
The old man, John, had a tough appearance and was aggressive with a gun in a helicopter while defending the ranch and livestock. But in the family, he is a gentle old man, and he will even beg to leave the family's son Casey in order to enhance his relationship with his grandson. His son Casey married an Indian, Kesley (Americans are so face-blind, obviously of mixed East Asian blood), and since then he has set up a new door and has not returned home for several years. There are also trust issues between Casey and Kesley, with Casey also weighing whether to return to the Dutton family with his wife and children. Son Li is thirty-eight years old and has a single dog. His happiness is to work hard on the ranch to make the old man happy. The son, Jamie, is a lawyer. Although the old man sees him differently from Li (he wants his son to inherit his father's business and become a cowboy), he still does his best for the family. Daughter Beth could have been a romantic and unrestrained celebrity in Yellowstone, but she went to Salt Lake City alone and became a domineering president. She was tired of the ranch life and went home only as a vacation.
The children seem to have different personalities, but they all inherit the same DNA from the old man: they can do anything to achieve their goals. Li lived for the ranch and fought for the livestock, even if he shed blood for it. Casey does things exactly the same way as the old man. The old man gave a shot to help a badly injured horse get free, and Casey chose to give him a shot to free a badly injured man. He is really like a father like son. Although Bess was a woman, she was overwhelmed when she spoke ruthlessly in the commercial negotiations in Salt Lake City. She went back to Yellowstone to find her old lover, Rip, on a field date. After saying that, she came to get out of the car with a bottle of wine and went to chase the wolf. The one who looks the least like the old man should be Jamie. It is not so much that he is bound by his status as a lawyer, but that he is very afraid of this DNA. Even so, he spared no effort in safeguarding the interests of the family.
Talking about family relationships alone isn't enough to maintain ratings. Therefore, in this special area of the Yellowstone Reservation, this play shows the tough style of using violence to control violence. There is no absolute fairness and justice here, there is no absolute who is right and who is wrong, and no party is a gangster, but they are all doing things in the way of a gangster. I just hope that while violence is used to solve the problem, the follow-up plot can reflect more tricks and calculations, and the combination of wits and bravery is the best look.
If there were no development disputes, the family's relationship with each other might have been lukewarm. But the dispute brought conflict, the conflict brought the rally, the rally brought Li's death, and Li's death brought hatred to the outside world. However, how will the plot develop?
Will the old man choose to compromise and retreat to protect his family? Will Jamie ruin his career as a lawyer by giving false evidence? Will Bass find a sense of belonging in Yellowstone again? Will the most important case, Casey, be caught? Will he take his wife and children back to the Dutton family? Will he be drawn over by the Indians and confront Dutton?
We will wait and see...
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In the third and fourth episodes, I still watched three or four episodes about genes and imprints, and found that there are not many eye-catching places. Through memories and the story of the ranch, two qualities of the Dutton Group are underlined: genes and imprints. Casey was very brave when he was a child. Facing the wolves that surrounded him, although he was afraid, he did not panic. Turning to look at Casey's son Tate, he was also calm in the pipe against the attack of the serpent. He took a stone to protect himself and beat the snake to death. Again, the Dutton family's genes are fierce. Jamie has a soft wrist, so he is least favored by John. The old man took the initiative to send his daughter Beth to run for Congress, but he thought twice about Jamie's proposal to run for the attorney general. Beth says it's because Jamie does everything for himself and everything he does for the family. I can't agree that my mother's death has something to do with Beth, so she has a deep sense of guilt, so she can make sacrifices against her temperament. Jamie is by no means so selfish. If he becomes attorney general, he will surely be more able to defend family interests. The difference between Beth and Jamie is that she is good at playing tricks. For example, she hooked up the developer boss to a cowboy bar, and humiliated the other person severely. Her sentence "When you start a war with others, you must first make them emotional and let them Angry" is full of wisdom. Jamie is more of using the gaps in the law to make profits, and I am optimistic about his later actions.
The fourth episode did not have a single shot of Jamie, but gave "wimp" Jimmy a lot of scenes. Rip has repeatedly protected him because he also has a Y mark on his chest. Either out of human affection or out of vision, John has cultivated a group of cronies who are not related by blood. Y is their symbol. These people get along like family members and protect each other. Perhaps, with John deteriorating due to illness, Lee passing away prematurely, Jamie and Bess in politics, and Casey in trouble and unwilling to go home, Rip is the most suitable successor to the Dutton family. Rip could take over Dutton by marrying Bess, if it had to be more plausible. In any case, they have already become one.
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Episode 5
The plot of "Yellowstone" is a bit loose, and its speed of advancement is comparable to the Korean drama "Mr. Sunshine" I watched. At the end of the fourth episode, the Indians arrested Casey. This was to leave a good suspense for the later story and hang the audience's appetite for a week. As a result, at the beginning of the fifth episode, Jamie took a helicopter to the reserved area. After a few words, the police caught the opponent and took Jamie home. Jamie's eloquence, Casey's chivalrous courage, and Bass's scheming are all invincible, so the audience can only watch family emotional entanglements.
The fifth episode re-emphasized the old man's need for Bess, because her "evil" Jamie did not have it, and in the face of the threat of the other two forces in Yellowstone, the Dutton family really needed a man with long sleeves and good tricks. Bess confronted the developer Dan and his wife in the bar, deliberately trying to make his presence felt, and finally angered Dan. He couldn't bear to move the rescuer. It sounded that the other party was a ruthless character, and he buried another burden to whet the audience's appetite. I hope the rescuer in episode 6 doesn't blow five to six, and he was poured down by a wine bottle from Bass within two days.
The scene in the fifth episode of Jamie and Bess fighting each other in the car reminded me of the Japanese movie "Brother and Sister" I watched recently, where the two brothers and sisters who were close to each other also bickered and fought because of love. Fighting is kissing, and scolding is love. It seems that there are still many things in common between Eastern and Western cultures.
The director used five episodes to foreshadow the background and character relationships, which is really enough. Next, he has to create maddening conflicts to promote the development of the plot. If it is so effortless to turn a bad one into a good one, and if the family relationship is so rigidly emphasized, it will not only be difficult to attract new audiences, but those who have entered the pit will also leave.
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Episode 67
After watching the seventh episode, I found that the show favors two types of plots: one is the sadness of people when they encounter misfortune, and the other is the danger of people when they face the beasts.
The previous tragedies include: John's wife fell on a horse and hit his head to death, his son Li died in a gun battle, and John, who really wanted to live another five hundred years, contracted cancer. The show felt that this was not enough, and asked Casey's wife Monica to pull the frame, but she was pulled to the rescue by a punch to the head. Although she was not killed, it was likely to leave sequelae, such as forgetfulness. My brother is gone, my father is seriously ill, and my wife is seriously injured. The necessity of Kathy's return to Dutton is really enough. The world is ups and downs and hard work. How much love and how much tears I still have, let the heavens know, I will not admit defeat.” It’s not a remake of the MV. However, according to the nature of the play, after overcoming these difficulties, Casey will not return easily, because Rip also clearly expressed his unwelcome with his fist. As I analyzed earlier, Rip and Casey will compete on who will run Dutton in the future. Now, the possibility has increased.
The dangers ahead include: Casey was surrounded by wolves as a child, and Tate was attacked by a serpent in a pipe. In the sixth and seventh episodes, the director showed the bears’ attention one after another. Casey roared with his bare hands and the bears roared. Rip rescued them in time with a gun. The tourists climbed over the fence to watch the bears, but John deterred them with a gun. Rip and Jimmy went to patrol, but no one With guns, the bears turned into sets of bears; tourists were forced to death by the bears, and Rip shot the bears in the head. Don't think that watching "Yellowstone" is full of cows, the reality is that bears are everywhere. The filmmakers are not filming "Ferocious Animals", but are reminding us that stocks are risky and investment needs to be cautious.
In terms of land, it was originally a situation in which the three kingdoms were headed against each other. Because of Dutton's strength, Dan joined forces with the Indians. Looking at it this way, it was not a clever way for Beth to stimulate Dan before. The people in Dan's city were very angry, and when they were destroyed, they were sitting on the ground and rebounding. They would rather sacrifice their own interests and cooperate with the Indians. Because he knows that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and unity is strength. This strength is iron, and this strength is steel. It is harder than iron and stronger than steel.
In terms of political future, Beth was originally more optimistic than Jamie, but she went to the female leader to say "even if my dad sleeps with you, don't use yourself as my stepmother". . So Beth is really a double-sided sword, her own destructive power is indistinguishable from Casey. In contrast, Jamie is much more reliable, and his campaign office is finally set up. Can the eye contact between the pantry and the female assistant develop emotional clues when there are only three episodes left in the future? Just keep watching...
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Episode 8
Les Miserables continues.
After Monica was hit hard, it's hard to say whether it was brain damage or enlightenment. She even said that she didn't know the current Casey, and she was going to take the child away. Casey was even more angry.
Rip also fell into the cesspool and failed to save the two tourists. Instead, he was accused of shooting the bear. A female police officer came to investigate him, and he didn't listen to the persuasion, and was almost killed by the fence, which made Rip take the blame again.
Jamie's campaign was full of confidence and he was very busy, but there were too many bad things at home. John called him for two days without answering, and he let him drop out of the election in a fit of rage.
Although the plot is a bit turbulent to look good, it is also annoying to urinate from the first episode. Lawyer Jamie did a good job, Boss Beth did a good job, Casey Prodigal did a good job, and John didn't trust the Dutton Group after he took over? There are so many bad things every day, why do you force your children to sacrifice yourself for your own ideas? Didn't John say it himself, he insisted on it for so long, I don't know why.
In the eighth episode, a few holes were dug, and it is estimated that tragedy will be used to fill in later.
John asked Jamie to withdraw from the election, Jamie was not reconciled, and the conflict between the two seriously intensified. I feel that the assistant the governor introduced to Jamie was a weasel who did not pay attention to the New Year's greetings to the rooster. She deliberately didn't answer John's call, and she didn't tell Jamie afterwards, seduced Jamie with a woman, and kept "encouraging" him to stick to his ideals. . This is blatantly sowing discord.
The new cowboy tells Rip that he doesn't want to commit a crime for Dutton, and he looks preoccupied, feeling that he will either be eliminated or become a weapon to expose Dutton's guilt and use it for the other two forces.
Jimmy became more and more comfortable at Dutton and became more and more popular. But he made a taboo by accidentally throwing the new hat on the bed, which made people worry about him.
The only thing that looks domineering in this episode is Beth, who seduces Dan's wife with a driver and tells Dan about her plan to buy his company's stock. But extremes turn against each other, every time he is so high-profile, so arrogant and so confident, he always feels that one day he will fall very painfully. After all, this show has given us so much grief.
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nine episodes
Looking forward to the return of Casey, I don't want Jamie to be abandoned.
Jamie loves the family, but can't be herself.
An empty table, all that is left is desolation.
John will say goodbye, and family will be separated.
It is clear that the stock can be collected and the problem can be solved legally.
But choosing violent means, this is the reckless Casey.
Coveted Yellowstone, bloody land.
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