The story takes place in Arizona in the southwest of the United States in 1882. The protagonist Albert is an honest and even incompetent young herdsman. Some of his sheep will climb the roof, and some will go into the town brothel alone; he " He is well-known for being "cowardly". He was born in the western part of the country, but he doesn't know how to use a pistol. When someone fights with him, he can only laugh at him and admit his cowardice. In the end, his girlfriend abandons him. ridicule.
"House", "lazy", "counsel", "single"
That's right, Albert is a "loser", a loser.
Albert had a mean and irascible father who would make breakfast for his son on a pig's butt full of flies, and would deliberately pull it in his pants for his son to clean up the mess. As early as when Albert first lost his baby teeth, he told his son to put the broken tooth under the pillow and the tooth fairy would give you a penny. As a result, little Albert woke up the next day and found that the broken tooth had turned into a sheep manure.
Albert is a Loser, and his friend Edward is not far behind. Edward is a shoemaker, she loves her girlfriend Ruth deeply, and Ruth is a devout Christian and a brothel woman. Although she receives fifteen guests a day, she follows the teachings and never Had premarital sex with Edward. When Ruth was working hard, Edward sat downstairs quietly and waited, without the slightest complaint. Yes, Edward is an " honest man " who is reluctant to give up .
The "Old Stump Town" where Albert lives is a silly and backward magical place. The name of this town comes from a big tree stump in the middle of the road in the town. When the road was built, everyone cut down the tree with all their might, but they could not remove the remaining tree stump. Albert once faced it and reflected on it: what did he cut it for in the first place?
——The movie is also sarcastic in the spoof
The residents of the town had never seen a one-dollar bill. When it appeared, the people were stunned and immediately took off their hats and saluted. Clearly mocking the backwardness of the West, in fact, mocking Americans' worship of money.
When there is a fire in the tavern, don't panic, you must quickly find a suitable opponent to fight with the rhythm, otherwise you are likely to be killed as a coward. The fierceness intended to ridicule the west actually comes from people's fear. Is it like the class gang fight in the junior high school campus?
There was a racially colored shooting game called "Fugitive Black Slave" at the fair, but the stall owner was shot down by "Django Unchained". I remembered the archery booth where the portrait of Abe Shinzo was used as a target at the temple fair, five yuan and ten rounds.
As an anti-Western film, the ending can't be like "The Bad and the Bad", where the tough western guys stand in the arena-like arena to fight for life and death.
The old chief revealed affectionately that the way for the Indians to gain courage was to smoke hallucinogenic herbs. Clinch Leatherwood, the frightened robber of the West—taken from Clint Eastwood, finally gets his love back.
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