The "old age crisis" of the old cowboy

Adalberto 2022-03-23 09:01:10

The atypical characters in the typical model are essentially the story of the weak (the hero of the twilight) arousing the inner potential to punish the evil and promote the good. The difference lies in the fact that this film is applied to the westerns that are being shot by fewer and fewer people. The reshaping of this "ancient memory" and the role of the most symbolic western genre film itself makes it look unique and give it new meaning. But in the post-modern era where the genre film model has collapsed, this kind of creation can hardly be said to be "anti", nor can it be said to be innovative. Superheroes are still rampant now, and the theme of the era of genre movies is changing. That is, the change from a typical hero to a typical grassroots hero to a typical weak. The values ​​represented are to complete the spiritual sustenance in the struggle against the outside; to complete the dream sustenance of growth in the struggle against the external; and to pass through the reality when the reality is broken and the dream collapses. Inner confrontation to resolve external conflicts is a process of awakening, representing the inner fighting lion of every middle-aged crisis elderly crisis person. This film belongs to the third type, which echoes the theme of the times.

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  • Davey: I'm dyin' boys. Jesus, I'm so thirsty.

    Will Munny: Give him a drink of water, goddamn it. Will you give him a drink of water, for Christ's sake? We ain't gonna shoot.

  • [Little Bill viciously kicks English Bob]

    Little Bill Daggett: I guess you think I'm kicking you, Bob. But it ain't so. What I'm doing is talking, you hear? I'm talking to all those villains down there in Kansas. I'm talking to all those villains in Missouri. And all those villains down there in Cheyenne. And what I'm saying is there ain't no whore's gold. And if there was, how they wouldn't want to come looking for it anyhow.