"Yellowstone", don't be fooled by the name, underestimate. It's not a documentary, it's not a petty crime movie, an emotional drama, and it's not a period movie. Judging from the first two episodes now online, the film has the potential to become an epic classic. Kevin Costner plays the leading role, familiar name, "Dancing With Wolves", "Bodyguard", "Unselfish", "Perfect World" and many other classics. As long as Kevin's image appears on the screen, for the audience, the show is full of charm. In the field of TV dramas, Kevin has only one mini-series "Blood Vengeance" with three episodes of the Western theme. "Yellowstone" is Kevin's first TV series. It is said that he appeared in the play because the script was particularly good.
The play is the first original script by Paramount. Compared with "Westworld", it is not a sci-fi imagination. The background setting of "Yellowstone" is more connected to reality and grander. Wild West, tough cowboy, indifferent modern city, racial feud, politics, violence, crime, erotica. "Yellowstone" has a very broad vision, which gives the show enough energy to do it. The head of the family, John Dutton (Kevin), and three sons and one daughter run the largest private farm in the United States, with modern management, vintage cowboys, and, of course, the wild beauty of the West. The operation of the farm was not smooth, and it was spied on by land developers, racially invaded by Indian reservations, forced by the world's largest oil and logging companies, and clashed with Yellowstone, the first national park in American history. Such a story base is enough to create a thrilling epic story.
The spirit of the Wild West has almost disappeared from the movies in recent years, and the spirit of the Red Dead can only be seen in the movies of the last century. (However, the 15-year-old movie "Western Slow Tunes" is still okay, and the spirit of the cowboy can be seen.) The spirit of the West is reflected in the cowboy, tough guy, freedom, both righteous and evil, contempt for orthodoxy and so on. "Yellowstone" has this Western spirit in terms of framing, video style, character details, and story progression. And, more characteristically, "Yellowstone" makes a direct contrast, or conflict, between modern life and the spirit of the West in the story. The simultaneous presentation of the two makes people examine the dilemma of modern civilization and modern life from the bottom of their hearts. Just like a line in the play, "The city is the twilight of civilization, the monument to the exhaustion of scenery".
Dutton's family is somewhat similar to the setting of "Burning Years". four children. A politician, similar to the eldest son in "The Years of Love". The second son helps his father run the farm. He is a cowboy who listens to his father's instructions and just wants to stay on the farm. The third son of "Burning Years" died in the war, and at the end of the first episode, Dutton's second son died in a fight with the Indians. Dutton's daughter, full of wild, very intelligent mixed in the business world. Dutton's fourth and second son, like Dutton himself, the spokesperson of the spirit of the West, a fighting hero with countless medals, married an Indian wife, rebelled against his father's authority and left the wealthy Dutton Manor, living on an Indian reservation and relying on his wife for a living. The show has only been updated to the second episode so far. The 90-minute content of the first episode, video, plot, and production will never lose to the current cinema movies. The quality of the film can already be seen in the details of the first two episodes.
(to be continued)
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