Feelings of Watching "The Great Silence"

Arden 2022-10-05 10:07:01

The world is inhumane and everything is a dog! God will also be attached to those at the bottom of society who are struggling to survive. They have no reason not to be treated well, because their human nature is not lost!

The characters in Italian westerns usually do not distinguish between "good and evil", good is bad; bad is good. Bastards are often flooded with whole movies from beginning to end. Regardless of the fate of the characters in the film, one thing I can be sure of is that everyone has a destiny that cannot be controlled.

What is the theme of Italian Westerns? It's revenge! The cycle will go back and forth, and it will never end... This is the original appearance of Westerns. When the western elements of American Westerns are about to disappear, Americans have acquired new elements from Italian Westerns. Westerns in a short period of time "Back to Light", the one who brought new life to Western films is Sergio Leone. His works have greatly broken through the traditions and limitations of Western films and made them immortal!

Compared with American westerns, Italian westerns have too many limitations, not only with smaller investment, but also with smaller audiences, they are aimed at local audiences.

The soundtrack of Italian Westerns is very good, full of traditional elements of local culture, this is the most important and unique. The soundtrack can easily help you integrate into the plot. As for whether the film is good or bad, it doesn't matter. Fuck the good or the bad, at this moment I will only enjoy the surprise and touch of the original soundtrack.

Watching movies or entertainment is first, mood is first, isn't it? Don't be too affected by the tragic ending of the film.

Klaus Kinsky does everything in "The Great Silence" ("Avenger of Blood"), and even if he is the only big name in the film, he is not the real protagonist. The protagonist is the dumb sharpshooter "Silent"! He has no lines, and his bloody feud and uncompromising humanity, which he interprets entirely by body language and eye expressions, is convincing enough. Isn't this more attractive than the villain played by Kinsky?

In summary, the points I mentioned above constitute the basic elements of the success of Western Films.

Thugs who were born in the poverty-stricken people eventually become executioners, and if they exaggerate blood to a certain extent, don't they become "fascists"? This was not the original intention of the Western movie; but the mob finally recovered humanity, forming a strong contrast with the executioner. The subtitles at the end of the film explain that the film is based on a real historical background. Bounty hunters who ignore life are not allowed to exist, and the blood left by the people for survival will not be erased by history. Western films show a series of changes, various contradictions, complicated human nature, and folk customs and cultures that have gradually disappeared, which are part of the historical and cultural heritage.

Facial close-ups and slow motions are also unique to Italian western films, which is extremely commendable.

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Extended Reading

The Great Silence quotes

  • Ending title card: The massacres of 1898, year of the Great Blizzard, finally brought forth fierce public condemnation of the bounty killers, who, under the guise of false legality, made violent murder a profitable way of life. For many years there was a clapboard sign at Snow Hill which carried this legend: MEN'S BOOTS CAN KICK UP THE DUST OF THIS PLACE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, BUT NOTHING MAN CAN EVER DO WILL WIPE OUT THE BLOOD STAINS OF THE POOR FOLK WHO FELL HERE.

  • [Silence remembers his first encounter with Pollicut... a candle in the present match-cuts to a candle burning several years earlier, as Pollicut and two bounty killers ride towards Gordon's house, who is loading a rifle]

    Silence's Mother: No, dear. You can't... you'd better surrender!

    [Pollicut and the two killers walk up to the house]

    Fake Sheriff: Gordon, I've got a warrant for your arrest. There's no sense for resistin'. Better let a lawyer prove you're innocent! I'll answer for your safety before you come to trial. Now act sensible. Safer for you if you're put in prison! But if you're not... some bounty hunter'll kill you for the reward!

    Gordon Sr.: Okay, sheriff. I'm surrenderin'.

    [Pollicut gestures to the two bounty killers to kill Gordon and his wife, and they do so by shooting them]

    Silence as a Boy: Ah! Dad, dad! Mama! Mama! Mama!

    [as Gordon's son cries over the body of his mother, the bounty killer disguised as a sheriff enters, and throws away his star]

    Fake Sheriff: Well, Pollicut? You got no call to worry about Gordon now.

    Pollicut: Maybe not. But the kid...

    Fake Sheriff: Nah...

    [the fake sheriff pulls out a bowie knife]

    Fake Sheriff: He'll never talk again.

    [Match cut from candle in flashback to candle in the present: Gordon's son is Silence himself]