I was surprised to think that McFarlane introduced the method of death in the movie, but later I watched the whole movie and realized that he used a poisoned bullet. To be honest, this method of death is really plain. As the finale of the hugely gimmicky "one million ways to die", death is not as absurd and humorous as "say you die." At that time, the little white-faced Albert, who was eloquent about how long the rattlesnake venom would have onset, would not have known. 200 years ago, in the far east, a scholar named Lu uttered the Jiang Yang thief in confusion with just one mouth. He committed suicide and died. Since then, he started a sect and became a master of a generation. They didn't use any tricks of poisoning ghosts.
Therefore, Seth McFarlane was suspected of pulling a big flag as a tiger skin this time, and gave the audience a "little white face and the horse thief lady have lived a happy life without shame" at the end. Fortunately, Jiang Ge finally When I came out with an Easter egg, I barely improved my liking for the movie.
Of course, don’t expect Seth McFarlane to make a Western film similar to "Unforgivable". He was originally a prankster. Since 1999, "FamilyGuy" has almost one or several episodes. Most of the wonderful ideas are from McFarlane's seemingly harmless head. In 2011, he set foot in the movie and wrote and directed "Teddy Bear". Mark Wahlberg had a good time with a screaming teddy bear. He casually took away hundreds of millions of dollars in the box office. In fact, this movie Movies are nothing but creativity. The teddy bear, who has always been as innocent and cute as Pooh, suddenly changes to the next three roads with ass and urine. It is naturally interesting. Just imagine if the teddy bear is replaced by a real friend, it is probably a supporter. It's much less, no matter how awesome, it's just a two-player version of "The Hangover", right?
Therefore, McFarlane wins because of the endless bursts of ghost ideas and small creative sparks. Writing cartoons or TV series is really worthy of his "highest paid screenwriter in history" award (Fox gave him a five-year contract of 100 million US dollars) . But if he hadn't designed a stalk that could dominate the overall situation like "Teddy Bear", his weakness in movie control would be highlighted. "A Million Ways to Die in the West" fully proves this.
The story is simple. An innocent, kind and harmless man who is out of step with the Western American life in the 19th century, Albert, was abandoned by his girlfriend. When he was sad, he ran into the horse thief's daughter-in-law Anna (Charlize Theron was called a beauty). Anna was attracted by Albert's unique and refreshing temperament that was out of the silt but not stained, clear but not demonized, and fell in love with him. Horse thief Krich Leatherwood (is this a tribute to Clint Eastwood?) expressed great indignation at this behavior and hunted down Albert. Albert conquered the Indians with the foreign language skills he accumulated when he was a schoolmaster during his escape. With their help, he did a little trick to kill the horse thieves. From then on, you are the wind and the sand is lingering with Anna in the western United States. End of the World.
From the point of view of the title, the biggest gimmick of the film should be all kinds of death. It is not necessary to pursue the art of death like "A Thousand Ways to Die". At least in my opinion, McFarlane should be able to give the audience. Some creative and visual death shocks, but unfortunately, except for a person who was killed by an ice block, most of the others died from the most common shooting in Western films. Albert, played by McFarlane, talked about the different ways of dying in the west, but for audiences whose appetites have been eaten up by movies like "Chain Saw", just listen to you. What a shame! This is probably the one segment in the film that most echoes the title.
Without the stalk that runs through the whole film, we can only see one incoherent creative spark, like the pure and incomparable love between Albert's friend and his prostitute girlfriend, the sheep who climbed the roof, and the aftermath of smoking marijuana. It’s a pity that these ideas are not funny or even vulgar, and they can’t change the temperament of the whole film at all. On the contrary, the chrysanthemum that Charlize Theron inserted in the asshole of Limnison who played the horse thief showed the unscrupulous spoof of a B-level film.
I can probably understand that McFarlane’s original intention for the movie "A Million Ways to Die in the West" was not to express death, but to present a kind of absurdity and unreasonableness of life in the West at that time. Western films in the golden age often take the audience to experience the delightful enmity of the desolate land, while the western films in the new age are more focused on the protagonist’s journey of searching and discovering himself, but McFarlane’s story is just a layer. The coat of the western film, the counterattack of the Dio Si man really didn't make us feel any spiritual gains in his search for himself. At this point, McFarlane did not do as well as the animated "Rango" in previous years.
In other words, if McFarlane becomes the host of the party again, he can sing "Liam Neeson, we saw your ass in "A Million Ways to Die in the West"".
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