This is an American Western film made by Italians in Spain, but I believe no one will question its representativeness as a Western film. This old antique shot in 1964 is naturally very rough today. Considering the technical conditions and understanding of the film at the time, we can't be too demanding of it. On the contrary, we must thank it for its wonderful performance. A classic. Leaving aside the significance, going back to the film itself, it can also accomplish the task of telling a story very well, and the film has a very good rhythm control throughout the whole process, which has already surpassed many commercial film masterpieces for half a century, often they only set one. Formulas, but always do not tell a story. Beyond that, there's a lot to like about Red Dead Redemption.
The music by Ennio Morricone is as classic as the film. The whistle is used as the main theme of the background music to create a desolate and desolate atmosphere; interspersed with the sound of board beats, bells, bells, whips, horse hooves, etc., the emotions that cannot be captured in the whole chapter are distributed with realism. The many sound nodes that things form. At the beginning, I first climbed the ancient road, surrounded by ancient vines and old trees, and vultures hovering; then I came to a desolate town with few people. Tango went back and forth between square inches, and my mood gradually improved; The horse was galloping, unstoppable; at the end, the horse stopped, without the slightest sluggishness, the hero walked away, the victory song and the Requiem Mass resounded behind the sky.
The unique music of "Red Dead Redemption" has now become a classic melody of Western films, only comparable to the trumpet and suona in the great northwest of China. In the same way, the picture also contributed to the shaping of the film's style. A remote, desolate, and dilapidated village that should have existed in Tsui Hark's martial arts films was uninhabited and full of chills. The unification of the story, music, and pictures is either due to the narrative style of the Italian director, or the geographical conditions of Spain, but ultimately created the aesthetic effect of "the ancient road with west wind and thin horses", "the singing of Chu songs is bitter, and the village drums at dusk". , is clearly a Western "martial arts" world.
I, who have never seen a classic western before, found this old movie, the first part of the "Western Trilogy", because I wanted to know more about my interest in westerns after watching "No Country for Old Men" by the Coen Brothers. dictated. I opened it with the question of "Look at what a Western is like". From the very beginning, it subverted my inherent imagination of the cowboy horse galloping on the vast grassland in the Western film. There is no grand background and narrative, only remote and dilapidated villages, where people of all colors gather here, but although the sparrow is small and complete, the story takes place in such a simple environment. It can be seen that, rather than writing about the sublime in the context of western nature, it is more inclined to discuss ethics and morality in a small social framework.
The angle of Red Dead Redemption is aimed at human nature. It has a very detailed and vivid portrayal of justice and evil, especially in the close-ups of the big villain Ramon using a Gatling machine gun to frantically shoot the US Army's money-transporting team, the "Brother Gang" massacres of the "Mayor Gang" and other close-ups, with violent aesthetics. Demonstrate the evil of human nature. However, its interpretation of good and evil is still superficial. It portrays a cowboy representing justice, representing the evil "Brother Gang" and Ramon, and acting as various tools for good old people. Good is evil, black and white, and there is a lack of deeper excavation of human nature. Compared with "No Country for Old Men", we can see the differences and gaps in its characterization, which further shows the modern and modern understanding and understanding of human beings.
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