A western film with a compact plot and a successful multi-character creation ~ worth watching

Eddie 2022-09-08 18:55:36

Is a happy ending a romantic peculiar to Western movies? The Knight and the Beauty live happily together ever after~ This is the first Western I've ever watched. Except for stopping at the inn to rest and be full, I spend the rest of the time on the road in the mountains. The most exciting thing is the characters on the carriage. Doc, who likes to drink, seems to be indecent, but is actually highly skilled in medicine, escaped from prison to avenge his family but does not forget the beauty of the world, a prostitute with a low status but a soft and kind heart, a pregnant but brave and tenacious officer's wife, very timid but very timid. A benevolent priest, a gambler from a fallen aristocracy, a wise and chivalrous sheriff, a grumpy and inhumane "banker", a silly coachman... They have different identities, but they all run towards the same a destination. Disagreements arose in the process, but kindness and justice always triumphed. The final ending can be reversed in just thirty seconds! While the audience was worried about Kid's future and his well-being with Dallas, the Sheriff let Kid go! It also puts the audience into imagining what a beautiful paradise-like life they will live on the farm~

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Stagecoach quotes

  • Ringo Kid: Look, Miss Dallas. You got no folks... neither have I. And, well, maybe I'm takin' a lot for granted, but... I watched you with that baby - that other woman's baby. You looked... well, well I still got a ranch across the border. There's a nice place - a real nice place... trees... grass... water. There's a cabin half built. A man could live there... and a woman. Will you go?

    Dallas: But you don't know me - you don't know who I am.

    Ringo Kid: I know all I wanna know. Will you go?

    Dallas: Oh, don't talk like that!

  • [the stagecoach occupants are voting whether or not to continue without a cavalry escort]

    Marshal Curly Wilcox: How 'bout you, Mr. Hancock?

    Samuel Peacock: Peacock. I'd like to go on, brother. I want to reach the bosom of my dear family in Kansas City, Kansas as quickly as possible; but, I may never reach that bosom if we go on... so, under the circumstances - you understand, brother - I think it best we go back with the bosoms... I mean the soldiers.