Telling a story well in a movie is basic, but telling several stories is invaluable. This is not what I said, Jiang Wen said.
Deadwood is a western cowboy movie, a movie adapted from an online drama, with a linear narrative, but because of the large space in the online drama, there are many characters, and there are also very rich biography of the characters, for me, like most of them, I have not watched the online drama and " "Prequel" netizens, this movie will be like a non-omniscient narrative, which may cause some netizens to not understand, but I think it is very interesting, full of imagination, and can automatically fill in the plot of the prequel. In a two-hour movie, the director's pacing is really good. There will always be a small town cowboy sheriff in a western movie, a revolver quickly drawing a gun, a black man in a lonely girl pub, and there are also in Deadwood, but the difference is that this is a feminist movie
Features
1. A strong feminist spirit runs through the whole film. Even if you haven’t read feminist books, you can still feel the strong feminist spirit. The prostitute Tracy assassinated the senator of the revenge class, and the prostitute Tracy became the only one standing on the roof. The person who insulted the senator for "causing trouble", the female lover of the male lead sheriff took pictures of the land left by the sheriff's friend, the lesbian encouraged everyone to beat the male villain No. 1, and the lesbian finally killed the male guard. Unlike Clint Eastwood, the director emphasizes women's rights, respects women's rights, and praises women's rights. But the same is not discriminating against lesbians (the mule he directed later can peek inside the leopard)
2 The rhythm of the film is very fast and compact, and the photography scheduling will not be emphasized, but it does a lot of articles on the drama of the characters. Linear narrative but there are a lot of conflicts in it, love, friendship, family, political parties, left and right factions, old and new ideas in a special era, eternal class, everyone's inner ideals and reality... These conflicts all add a lot to the film , unless you don't understand it, you will feel very good, the director is very mature, needless to say,
The three protagonists are all round characters, there is no absolute good and evil, and there is no absolute justice. Only a few supporting characters are flat
The sheriff's protagonist, the sharpshooter, is upright and represents a kind of justice. The family also seems very warm at the beginning, but immediately the lover enters the scene and brings a daughter, and also lives in his own hotel, which proves that they were once masters in love, and they all kept each other. Secretly, the girl might be his illegitimate daughter. The sheriff knew that the senator was not a good person, but he still allowed his friend to negotiate in person. Knowing that the senator is the murderer and his life is in danger, he still insists on showing evidence
Senator Villain No. 1, who represents the bureaucratic power, will do anything to achieve the goal. On the first day of the airborne, someone has already arranged for someone to send wood. It can be seen that the land development of the town is inevitable. Sure enough, he immediately sent someone to kill the sheriff's friend and other people who planned to harm and interfere. However, he also encouraged the elderly mayor to make a phone call, encouraged the advancement of technology, and encouraged the economy to make the town better tomorrow.
A female prostitute, Tracy, has a strong personality. Many years ago, she failed to assassinate the senator. She almost died. The senator came to the town again. Jenny is the only one in the town who stood up on the balcony and abused the senator with a big belly. She was never afraid of death in her life. . But in the end when the senator showed up at her wedding, she was scared because she had a baby and she humiliated and begged the senator for peace
The brothel owner is black and white, insinuating businessmen, and drinking alcohol to open brothels. Killed another innocent girl for Trish, but gave the house to Trish before she died, and the other property was divided equally between the doctor and the two employees. The relationship between Tracy and Tracy is like a father and daughter, but also like a lover. It is worth mentioning that he has a very good line. On the day of Trish's wedding, Trish said: You still love face means there are so many decent people, so many wines, so grand, but the brothel owner said something: other It's the icing on the cake, which means having you is the best thing. It's actually a bit dark here. If the boss and Trish are father and daughter, how could a father let his daughter be a prostitute? How could he let his daughter sleep on him? If the boss and Trish are lovers, how big is the hat of the other Jewish husband?
The female two lesbian, the color is extremely rich, to see that many years ago, the lesbian was greatly stimulated by the death of her friend. Later, in order to avoid this kind of emotion in the town, she also left the woman she loved and left the town, because She is afraid. After she came back, when she found the woman she loved again, she was angry with two words. But in the end she came back, came back to find the woman she loved even though she was a prostitute, and she finally came forward and shot the police assistant who was going to attack the sheriff. It is worth mentioning that her lines in the stable are very good, which touched me and made me very envious of this love. Before the finale, she finally mustered up the courage to encourage everyone to beat the senator and kill the police officer who betrayed the sheriff.
The bottom class of black people may be hanged at any time because of their skin color. They are very afraid of being cunning. At first, he said he didn't see other people's faces, and then he asked the sheriff not to hang himself just because he was black, right? But when one murderer was killed, the black man immediately identified the other as the murderer.
The Chinese also have three Cantonese-speaking Chinese, who raise pigs and sell tea, which is different from other Western films, which are about building railways.
There are a lot of small foreshadowings, including many very ingenious lines, such as the sheriff's assistant's leg stroke and pain, the screenwriter is very good, but the length is too short, it can be made into a 4-hour movie, but it is already very good. span
After watching it, there is a sense of reason and emotion in a western cowboy movie, and the director also has a bit of Ang Lee's moderation in artistic handling.
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