"The Robber" is a road police and gangster film released by Netflix on March 29. Two Texas Rangers played by Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson pursue the story of Bonnie and Clyde, the male and female thieves. . This and 1967 Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway starred in "The Male and Female Thief", just like the positive side of a coin, interpreting the same event from two perspectives, but bringing the audience two completely different feelings .
Because there are real events endorsed, this restoration of events is much calmer than the romantic "Her and Male Thief". The story begins with Bonnie and Clyde's raid on Isson's prison farm in early 1934, and has been on the run in several states for several years, killing several male and female thieves, causing headaches for the US police and government. In order to bring the two to justice as soon as possible, the Texas government was forced to hire two retired mounted policemen, Haimer and Galt, as bounty killers to pursue Bonnie and Clyde for thousands of miles.
This is a very man, very western, very cowboy movie. It is different from the rebellious style of "The Male and Female Thieves" in 1967. Just like Kevin Costner's righteous face, the three views are very positive, and justice will be done to gangsters. The political correctness of bringing it to justice cannot be questioned.
I've been fascinated by the story of Bonnie and Clyde for twenty or thirty years, first seeing it in a movie magazine when I was in middle school. Today's friends can't imagine this style of writing at that time, called movie story. The plot of the movie is described in several thousand words, not even a single still is dry, it is full of small characters, of course "The Male and Female Thief" will be followed by a little criticism of the bourgeois poisonous weed.
At that time, I happened to be in a period of unreasonable rebelliousness. At the same time, I had a serious Liangshan complex since I was a child, and I had a blind worship of the heroes who raised their hands to kill. I have read this story several times, and I fantasized about the legendary picture of a pair of lovers going to the end of the world, and I longed to see this movie one day. The magazines were so rudimentary back then, and there were no color illustrations except for the front and back covers. If I could see this still of Faye Dunaway then, I would be even more madly obsessed with this movie.
I saw this movie almost ten years later in the VCD era, and the video tape era is not enough. The video tapes are basically Hong Kong movies or Schwarzenegger, Stallone and other action movies. The first intimate contact with mainland audiences for such classic stylized films was in the mid-1990s when VCD home theaters became popular.
Every time I think of this era when I feel very happy, I am sincerely grateful to the founders of the D-version business in the Mainland, those Teochew bosses who may not have graduated from primary school. I am really, really grateful. Later, when I lived in Guangzhou for a few years, friends often introduced me to this Huang Sheng, and that Lin Sheng was a VCD boss with several lines. Every time I go over with a glass of wine to toast, there are not many people in Chaozhou who can drink alcohol, unlike the northeastern gentlemen who are all drunk, "I'll do it, you can do what you want." I really want to pay tribute to them.
Chaozhou people are smart and do business well, but their culture is generally not high. They may just go to the LD rental store in Hong Kong just to make money, and they will reprint whichever one the salesperson says is good for rent. Maybe they can't even recognize the plot introduction in traditional Chinese characters on the cover, but they unintentionally carried out an enlightenment movement for mainland movie lovers. The "enlightenment movement" is quite scary. So a little bit similar. In 1919, when I was too young, I should still be in a gas state, at most in the process of evolution from gas to liquid, and this time the beneficiaries included me.
Having said so much, it is not difficult to see that, like many young Americans in the 1930s, I have a little bit of a cult mentality towards Bonnie and Clyde, the murderous gangsters of both sexes. "The Robber" happens to be the opposite of "The Robber". Sheriff Highmore is the harlequin used by Bonnie and Clyde as a prop for taking pictures in "The Robber".
It stands to reason that if I liked the first film in the first place, I should have hated the latter one. The strange thing is that I don't hate "The Robber" at all. After watching this, I wondered if my feelings for "Hands of Thieves" changed because I accepted the police's point of view. So the next day, I immediately replayed "The Male and Female Thief" again. My feeling has not changed. I still like this wild and unruly story very much.
Then I had to face the fact that I was actually a person with no firm stance, and I could understand the police without delaying my liking for male and female thieves.
It's a joke if you say standpoint. The real reason is that a successful movie can completely change the direction of the audience's thinking.
My way of thinking when I was a child was very simple dualism, black and white, good and bad. The good man is the fighting hero Li Xiangyang with two guns, and the bad man is the bully landlord Hu Hansan.
Is the world really so straightforward? Probably not.
To give an example that often happens, when a few classmates get together, if they recall a classmate who was transferred halfway through and no one has seen them again, everyone's memories of this person will not only be different in personality, habits, interesting things, but even memories. There are several versions of his appearance.
Of course, there is no difference between righteous and evil among classmates, but it is enough to show that the heinous villain in my eyes may not be in the eyes of others. There is neither absolute good nor absolute bad in this world, unless everyone's thoughts are unified first, 1984, ah, I am afraid to think about it.
The two things I'm most afraid of right now are living in a war or the society described in "1984" before I die.
Yahweh, Sakyamuni, Allah, Taishang Laojun, Jade Emperor, Huang Daxian bless, it's fine now, don't be fooled.
Even if it is a story endorsed by a real person, from which starting point to tell, what to say, what to leave out, and how to go on, although the ending is the same, the front and back of a coin are always two different patterns.
If you have the same one, either you are unlucky enough to receive a counterfeit coin, or you are lucky enough to get the wrong coin, which is very collectible.
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