A western classic through the lens of John Ford. It's not like the frontiers written by Gao Shi or the rivers and lakes written by Jin Yong. The hoofs of the horses are strong, the wind is fierce, and the cowboy has a guitar and a shotgun in his hands. The romantic and passionate temperament is unobstructed. After watching the whole film, what I can't get out of my mind is that the galloping horse, the strong muscles and bones in high-speed movement, are all clamoring for the beauty of the wild, the sound of the horse's hooves is like a drum beat, and the dust raised carries the desolation and majesty of the wilderness. . And the nine travelers with different personalities slowly unfolded for the audience, a magnificent picture of "the world is full of people with temperaments". As a masterpiece of Western themes, it is also a film and television classic directed by John Ford. Although it was filmed in the infancy of the film industry, with the black and white quality of small snowflakes, it still cannot hide the brilliance of the work. Now watch the rhythm plot Still not cheesy. To a large extent, the plot setting and shooting skills of the film were very pioneering at the time, and at the same time greatly influenced the creation of related types of films in later generations. In the first half, the backgrounds of the various characters of the multi-protagonist group were skillfully laid out through dialogue, while estrangement and prejudice were buried. While the internal contradictions are constantly running in, the external dangers are looming, urging the tension of the plot to continue to escalate, and the plot is advanced step by step through two staged events. (At the same time, new attempts were made in the composition and depth shooting in the carriage.) First, everyone voted to decide to stay or stay, which deeply portrayed the characteristics of the characters and accumulated group contradictions. The second is the production of the officer's wife, which completes the complementing and reversal of important characters' personalities. The arcs of the characters are gradually revealed, and the gaps between the characters are gradually bridged. In this way, before the climax, the audience's attention and emotions have been mobilized to the eve of the peak, fully supporting the absolute climax that follows. And in the second half, the ups and downs were a bloody chase scene. With the help of the very bold and avant-garde at the time, the low-camera position, the cross-horse jumping axis, the static lens and the extraordinary texture of the real scene shooting, created a thrilling shootout with a very rhythmic sense. (PS: For the little easter egg that people are talking about, Ringo asked the sheriff for 10 minutes of free time, and then from here until he and Dallas were acquiesced to escape by the sheriff, just ten minutes) This is the situation, this person is this thing . Full of masculinity without losing romantic tenderness. The ability to create a thrilling story will never fade in the history of film and become the object of many subsequent road films, westerns and adventure films. An off-topic sentence: When watching a movie, the audience will inevitably be brought into the subjective perspective of the protagonist unconsciously, and they will naturally be emotionally inclined. The experience of the protagonist is certainly moving. If the perspective is changed to Indians, this can become a horror movie
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