The shackles of ideology

Today’s forgetting cannot cover up the glory of the past. You must know that Western films used to be the highlight of Hollywood, just like our martial arts films, and this is the classic in Western films, stagecoach, stagecoach, our translation is Guanshan Feidu, How poetic, is it taken from "Guan Shan Du Ruo Fei"? If it is, then the artistic conception is also very close, and the frontier feeling is brought out... Yes, the name also reflects the climax of the chase scene. The narrative of the film seems to be accelerating, getting faster and faster, and it is impossible to stop. Of course, the film is written in At the same time as the annals of history, its political factor, that is, ideology is also a very important part. The film has a profound depiction of race and class. For example, the wife of the inn is very Spanish and looks like a gypsy. , the white people didn't like it, so she really became a thief... The opposite of the film is the enemy, the native Indians, who are portrayed as a threat to society, wild, backward, and robbers. What a white American thinking, you must know that the American continent was originally owned by others, and the front of the film portrayed the male protagonist, a prisoner, and a symbol of the western cowboy. This is very American heroism. However, the problem is, The end of this model is self-imposed exile. They go to farms outside the Great Wall. Obviously, society, white society, cannot tolerate such non-mainstream people. Therefore, cowboys have become a symbol of freedom, but they can only be people yearn for. Freedom is So extravagant and out of reach, in addition, to match him, the movie also designed Dallas, the heroine, who obviously represents kindness, but is under the class, because she is a prostitute, so cowboys and prostitutes become the perfect combination, which Putting two people directly into the bottom layer also maintains the concept of mainstream society. People can recognize your personality, but cannot accept your identity. Perhaps, this is the eternal principle of Western movies, just like our martial arts movies. , how righteous, but in the name of hacking people, in the end they are unable to integrate into the circle of mainstream society...

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