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The Searchers (1956)
In addition to "Searchers", this film, There is also a translation called "Sunset Crazy Sand". When I first saw the name, I thought it was "Sunset Yellow Sand" I had seen before. After checking the information, I found out that they were originally two films, and this film has another translation titled "The Searcher". Sandy sunset? Sunset yellow sand? gosh……. The translated name is translated like this, many people will think that this is the same movie, and this movie is better called "The Searcher".
The film tells the story of two men looking for a girl. A man who has fought in the war returns to his brother's house, intending to live a peaceful life. The next day, many animals in the village were killed. Everyone knew that it was the Indians, so the villagers organized a cavalry team to hunt down the Indians. After the cavalry team chased far away, they found out that they had been tricked by the Indians, but it was too late to return to the village. The next day, when the man returned to his brother's house, he found that his family had been killed and the two girls had been taken away by the Indians. The cavalry immediately chased, and in the pursuit they were besieged by the Indians, and some were seriously wounded. Everyone decided to give up, only the man, the boy the man saved a few years ago, and the girl's boyfriend decided to keep going. After some chase, the man found the body of one of the girls. His boyfriend was very angry when he found out, and he killed the Indians in a fit of rage. The remaining two continued to search. A year later, the two returned to their brother's friend's house in the village, planning to rest for a while before searching. The daughter of a friend's family has always liked the youth very much. She is very happy to see him back and does not want him to leave. But in order to find a girl, the two left. The two of them pursued for many years, went to many places, and met many things, such as the young man who bought an Indian woman to be his wife, was robbed, and so on. In New Mexico, they finally found the Indian tribe who took the girl and met the girl. The girl has become a woman and she is reluctant to leave the Indian tribe. When the man saw this situation, he wanted to kill the girl, but the young man did not agree. The two fought each other, and the Indians attacked. After repelling the Indian attack, they returned to a friend's house. A friend's house was holding her daughter's wedding at this time, and it turned out that she didn't want to wait for the youth. After the young man saw the groom, the two scuffled. After the fight was over, the army came to inform that the Indian tribe that took the girl was coming to attack the village. The cavalry team was formed immediately, and under their attack, the white people finally rescued the girl, and the young man and his friend's daughter finally got married.
The IMDB250 and AF100 movies I watched recently, let me see a lot of good movies, even if many of them are not good movies, but they are not mediocre. But this movie is different from these movies, it is a movie that I can't understand. I can't find the center or the theme of this film. Simply put, I don't know what the film is trying to express. The greatness of affection? The steadfastness of friendship? Indian assimilation of whites? Or the infatuation and single-mindedness of a friend's daughter? Or the brutality of the Indians and the chaos of the American West? Furthermore, the instability of American life after the Civil War?
The movie can be split into two parts, a search for girls by two borderline paranoid men, and a somewhat hilarious family comedy. In the first part, what is the purpose of the two men's search, the movie has not always explained clearly. According to common sense, relatives should be found, but there is no need to spend most of your life traveling all over the United States. This is unrealistic and illogical! Could it be that the two men have ulterior motives, but the man is the girl's uncle, and the only one who has ulterior motives is the youth, but the youth likes the daughter of a friend's house, and the two of them are trying so hard to find out how to understand. reason. Anyway, it's not normal for two people to search frantically. Maybe it's really like the online comments say that men are looking for a sense of home, and young people are trying to protect girls from men? However, I really did not see this level through the description of the film! The family comedy in the other part of the film makes people look very awkward. It is obviously inconsistent with the overall style of the film, and the setting of the comedy sections is not new. The reaction of everyone in Shizhong, they are obviously watching the excitement, which is not realistic at all. It can be seen from the above that it is difficult to achieve unity and rationality in the most basic plot and style of the movie. Does such a movie look puzzling?
In addition, the character settings in the movie are also very one-sided, such as the old man who likes a rocking chair, the priest who doesn't agree with men, and the girl from a friend who likes young people. The relationship between these people is very sudden. There is no detailed description or some hint of their relationship, as if the characters have brought these relationships when they appear. Unless, this film also has a prequel movie. The funniest thing is that when the man and the young man returned to a friend's house, the old man who liked to sit in a rocking chair was caught by the Indians and brought to their village. Is there a mistake? I was still in New Mexico just now, and I'll be in Texas in a while, so let's make a transition with some plots! Also, why catch an old man who likes a rocking chair? Could it be that the Indians knew about his relationship with the villagers, and they didn't explain it. In short, the overall plot of the film has great flaws, and it is very obvious everywhere in the film. The screenwriter of this film should fight!
This film is really confusing to me, so I had to go online and read other people's reviews. Many people have talked about the racial discrimination in this film, but in my opinion, the description of Indians in this film is very normal, because the Indians in American Westerns have always been this image, cruel, savage, bloody, violent. , killing innocent people, etc. If these are racist in this film, then all Westerns before the 1990s were racist. Therefore, this aspect of the film is not worth mentioning at all.
In the end, after racking my brains, I finally found that the only positive aspect of this film is that it depicts the assimilation of Indians to white people, and it can also be said that the girl recognizes the identity of Indians. As a film released in 1956, it can have such an advanced awareness and reflect the fact that it exists, which is the biggest difference between this film and other Western films. Although the assimilation of Indians to whites described in this film cannot be compared with "Dances with Wolves", the courage and foresight of this reality is still of historical significance. This is also the main reason why the film can enter AFI100.
The rest of the movie is pretty decent, only the picture impresses me. There are many magnificent western scenery in the movie, and they are all big panorama, wilderness, grove, bald mountain, etc. This is the most realistic western movie I have ever seen. Of course, this has a lot to do with it being a color film. relation. However, many of the pictures in this film still use fake scenes, which is its flaw. Is it only in the 1970s that movies don't use fake scenes? I've seen enough of the fake scene!
The actors are all familiar faces. Although I don't see many Westerns, I've seen a lot of John Wayne's movies. The image of John Wayne in this film is still the same, a heroic hero, so I won't say more. The heroine Vera Miles is also an old acquaintance and has seen several movies starring her, such as "Psychopath" and "Beautiful Woman". She is a beautiful beauty, and she is also a vase-style beauty in this film, which fits her image. Natalie Wood, who only appeared in a few scenes, is also a familiar face. She is the heroine in "West Side Story" and "Rebel Without a Cause". Looking at it now, I watch more and more old movies, and I can be familiar with old stars.
All in all, a messy film, with a disjointed style, an incomplete plot, and unremarkable characters, the only good thing being that it involves the assimilation of whites by Indians for the first time, and that's it. It's not a good movie.
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2011-10-18
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