"Once Upon a Time in the West", also known as "Ten Thousand Miles of Rage in the Sand", begins with an ancient dragon-a horse with a westerly wind and a yellow sand at sunset. A mysterious guest (Charles Bronson) meets with Frank (Henry Fonda) who has been famous for many years. Henry Fonda), he was waiting at the train station, but three killers were waiting...
The three killers, wearing the same cowboys and the same top hats, stood facing the mysterious guest. Just as the two sides drew their guns like thunder and lightning, they only heard the "bang-bang-bang" three gunshots. The three killers He fell to the ground.
Alright, the camera switches, and the story begins: The mysterious guest rides on a horse sent by three killers and embarks on his road of revenge.
At the other end of time and space, the killer Frank is performing another "task". Under the instructions of Mr. Train, he killed the Irish foreigner Mark Huan and his family. In this "task", Frank fully demonstrated his extinction side. Even the teenagers have not let go.
At this time, Mark Huan’s wife (Claudia Cardinale) is rushing home from New Orleans, passing by the inn, and encountering the mysterious guest and the ranger Sean (Jason Robards) , The fate of these few people is so intertwined.
The Irish foreigner Mark Huan took a fancy to a piece of land in the desert more than ten years ago, and then he bought it and decided to build it as a station. Ten years later, the train track was really repaired here, and this treasure land became very hot. Mr. Train hired Frank to kill Mark Huan and started a fierce battle for this piece of land.
It seems that in border towns where commercial competition is almost non-existent, there is a monopoly of the underworld, and most women and children are men's vassals.
Frank pretended to be the Sean gang when performing the "mission", and the ranger Sean had to be involved. Sean killed Mr. Train on the way to track down Frank. At the same time, Mark Huan's wife became the new piece of land. Master, "stringed" several men together. The mysterious guest just wanted revenge, Shane just wanted to find out the truth, and Frank planned to marry Mark Huan’s wife to occupy this precious land (this is a business man who can do business). The killer), but all these conspiracies were finally broken by the mysterious guest...
The mystery always plays the harmonica, except when he draws his gun like lightning.
After all, he chased Frank for a period of time, many years ago. Frank killed his family and allies and stuffed the harmonica into his mouth.
The gentleman takes revenge, and it is not too late for ten years.
Frank finally came to Sweetwater Town by himself, and came to an end the dramatic scene he himself created many years ago. With a gunshot, he fell under the muzzle of the mysterious guest. However, in the end, he did not know that the mysterious guest was Who……
This film has a profound impact on Western films. Sergio Leone broke the complete storyline of traditional movies and began to develop in the direction of the plot. The intertwined characters and fragmented scenes were a pioneering work at the time. Blurred the boundary between good and evil, reshaped the vivid anti-hero symbols, so that Juan in "Revolutionary Once Upon a Time" and the noodles in "American Once Upon a Time" bear this mark on his body.
"Once Upon a Time in the West" was released in 1968. At that time, the United States was under the suppression of the complex environment of the Cold War, the Vietnam War, ethnic and sexual liberation movements. The extremely cool aesthetic violence elements were put on the screen, which attracted many eyeballs and won unanimous applause! And from the music, editing and picture processing, it seems to have had an impact on Xu Ke, He Ping, and Jiang Wen. We seem to be able to watch it from "New Dragon Inn", "Swordsman in Shuangqi Town", and "Let the Bullets Fly". To the shadow of "Once Upon a Time in the West".
Of course, in the United States during this period, in addition to Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola's also accurately grasped the pulse of the times, but Francis Ford Coppola's plot was more complicated (" The Godfather), the reflection is more profound ("Apocalypse Now"), but because of this, it became a box office poison at that time.
But no one can deny that Sergio Leone and Francis Ford Coppola’s position in the history of American cinema, together they opened the precedent for anti-heroist drama and adventure movies.
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