Whenever [Bi Xue Jinsha] is mentioned, it is always given the title of "the greatest gold rush movie in film history", this statement Although it is not bad, it is not difficult to find out that it is only a superficial type, completely ignoring the true essence of its refraction-although the whole film has not deviated from the theme of "gold rush" within 126 minutes from the beginning to the end, but Even if this inducement becomes any kind of temptation in life, such as vying for fame, grabbing love, smashing, grabbing power, etc., the appeal of the theme will not weaken.
The Gold Rush
In Tampico, Mexico, in 1925, American Flett C. Dubis seemed to have transformed from a self-reliant wage earner to a tramp who was begging along the street, and all he could do every day was to beg for every passing American. Asked: "Can you reward the fellow Americans with a bite of food?" He even asked a rich man wrapped in a white suit three times in the same day. By chance, Dubes was temporarily hired by a contractor to go to drill the ship. He worked 16 hours a day and received a high salary of eight dollars. In the process, Dubes met fellow coolies. Curtin, along with an old man named Howard, whispered, claiming to know that there is gold in a certain mine, but also warned in advance: "Gold will change a person's temperament and make it different from two." Dubes and Dubes disagreed at the time. However, after working hard for several days, they encountered the contractor’s soles of oil on the eve of the payment. The frustrated Dubes and Curtin accidentally reunited with the black-hearted boss. The two sides started a dispute. People were angry and knocked him down, and took out his own 300 dollars of hard-earned money from his bulging wallet.
There is no way out in life, Dubes and Curtin have to find another way. Howard, who always talks about the gold rush, appears in the two people’s dreams of money. The three hit it off under the guidance of the gold rush dream. Capital. When I was worrying about the bad one hundred dollars, it happened that Dubes was entangled by a child but he bought a lottery ticket with a two-hundred dollar "big prize." . Under the leadership of the experienced Howard, the dubes, who knew nothing about gold rushing, experienced a brief period of confusion, and finally found the first gold in their lives. However, the change in their temperament could not escape the old man’s emotions: "When gold does not appear, friendship may still exist." After seeing the gold, people's minds began to undergo subtle changes. After the three people agreed, they decided to divide the dug sands into three equally every day and save them separately.
Dubes became the first of the three to lose his temper. In a verbal argument, Dubes slurred against Curtin and suggested that he had taken out more scripts: "I still keep asking you. Half of the gold earned." The two got pregnant with ghosts and got up in the middle of the night to bury the gold. Dubes’ suspicion became worse. Howard sent him out to do something. He suspected that he was being spent. The two of them could find his hidden gold land. Cotin accidentally found Dubes’ treasure once after chasing lizards, which attracted Du. Bees was furious, and finally Howard arbitrated. He picked up the stones to confirm that there were lizards. At this point, the Nuggets battlefield was full of smoke, and greed made people frantic, and the three fell apart.
The internal worries have not yet been resolved, and the external ones have struck again: A Dallas Cowboy named Cody guessed that they were gold nuggets. After secretly following up, the rogue said: "Now there are three possibilities, kill me, drive me away, or make me One of you." Then after analyzing the three possibilities in detail, he boldly proposed to divide the three people's income into four. The problem of the four people here has not been resolved, and a large number of robbers have attacked there. The robbers who don’t know the details want to exchange the guns with the gold watch. The federal soldiers who came after hearing the sound prevented the situation from getting worse. The three survivors read the letter from the family on Cody who died, and the sparks of conscience flickered for a moment, but they gradually extinguished after a while.
Finally they made enough money. The three left with Jinsha. On their way home, they met a group of local villagers. Howard, who knew Spanish, was invited to help the villagers try to save his drowning son. Howard, who had been acting as a mediator, left temporarily, leaving the rest. The potential contradiction and conflict between the next two suddenly aroused, and finally took advantage of the "who is the head" issue. Seeing Dubius raise the gun, Curtin did not back down, struggling to grab the gun in his hand, shouting "Reshuffle the cards." ". Time was advancing as the two continued to fight and gain the upper hand. When Dubes grabbed the gun again, he finally took Curtin into the grove and pulled the trigger. Dolbyxi, who completely pushed himself into desperation, murmured afterwards: "Beside the fire, I don’t feel warm. Conscience, what is conscience, if you believe you have a conscience, you will be entangled to death by it; if you feel You have no conscience, what can it do to you? These nonsense makes me feel sick." When I went to bury the person the next day, the body was gone. He didn’t know that Curtin was actually not dead. He was rescued by a native of Mexico and brought back to Howard. Seeing that the situation had developed to such a crazy level, Howard, who had experienced the vicissitudes of life, was still defending Dubusi’s change of temperament: "I miss him. Not a real killer, I think he is as upright as everyone else, at least about the same. The only mistake is to give you one hundred thousand dollars and leave you in the forest. If I was still young, I would be beaten in your environment. Tempting." On the
other end, Dubius, who was eager to abscond with gold, met the robber and became a dead ghost in confusion, closing his eyes forever as the sand drifted away. Someone informed Howard and Curtin Dubes had been robbed. The two went to the ruins to find them. They only saw people go to Jindui. The three bags were empty. Howard laughed up to the sky: "Laugh, Curtin, we are caught by the god of destiny or nature. The god made a big joke, no matter who it is, he must have a sense of humor, and the gold is back where we found them."
Sin and Punishment
[碧血金沙] From the perspective of the theme story, it is not novel, it is simply a tragic fable that has lasted since the concept of wealth in human society. The gold rush has climaxed since the 19th century. Whether it’s the California gold rush that made the world seething, or the gold mines of the entire North American continent, behind the prosperity and glory of regional cities, in fact, just like the cruel reflection of this film, they are buried. The corpse that crashed to the ground under greed. And [碧血金沙] only became the premier gold rush movie in film history because it accurately described this process of human nature transformation. The three gold digger roles that were
paired with each other are also very representative because of their outstanding personalities. Bis’s transformation uses a combination of objective description and subjective introspection. The opening movie Du Bis lives on the streets and lives a life of begging without dignity. Even so, the kindness and moral principles have not been wiped out. Faced with the lottery boy, he is not forgiving. For his sales promotion, he took out part of his meager income from begging, and had no power to fight back against the black-hearted boss, and only took away his own wages. But the emergence of the first holding of Sands has thus become Dubes’ heart demon. In fact, he has repeatedly recalled Howard’s original prediction before that, and he has already had a certain degree of self-suggestion, which is like an apple in the Garden of Eden. Sitting and lying uneasy, in order to prevent others from rushing to the front and falling and infringing on their own interests, Dubes became the first person to eat the forbidden fruit. From then on, whether it was Howard who took him on the Cotai Strip before, or rescued in a cave-in. Curtin, who survived his life, became his unshakable competitor.
Curtin, who has always been in a passive counterattack position, represents the majority of the people who were unable to help the predecessor of desire. They knew nothing about the evil of this world. They fought back when their own interests and dignity were violated. The dead Duras Cowboy was full of sympathy and guilt, and even offered to send a quarter of his wealth to his family. It is not difficult to see the goodness of his nature, but in an environment where the weak and the strong, he has no sense of prevention. People who are not only can only become helpless victims. Compared with the old fried dough sticks who used to fame and fortune, people with innocent nature are more likely to change their minds and go to the other extreme of morality.
Howard is a character who is almost deified. From the beginning of his appearance, this old wise man has already seen the greedy nature of human nature. He knows that the tragedy that may be encountered on the road to the Nuggets lies not in physical strength itself, but in bloody intrigue, but with the real suffering of life. In contrast, he would rather take the risk and give it a go. Howard looked at Dubius and Curtin's entanglement from iron buddies to antagonisms and even with guns all the way. On the principle of minimizing matters as much as possible, leading them to resist foreign enemies together. Control the situation and still have nothing to do to change people's hearts. Even if Dubes finally took the step of shooting Curtin, even when the audience was filled with indignation for its amazing change, Howard was still able to explain and argue against it from the perspective of lamenting human nature. It is only those who have seen extremely evil can use it. Compassionately compassionate the world.
And the wonderful ending of the film’s trio lies in the formation of a reincarnation. The road to the Nuggets is like a test of humanity. Wise men such as Howard are already unable to retreat. In the end, the dust returns to the dust, the soil returns to the earth, with empty hands, and desirelessness becomes the only way to save the soul.
Filming prospective brothers, receiving awards for father and son soldiers
[碧血金沙] At the time, John Houston was 42 years old. He was still a descendant in the Hollywood film industry in terms of seniority and fame. However, the desire to make this film was born as early as twelve years ago before he entered the industry. When I read Travin’s novels, Houston had already sketched out the movie scenes in his mind. After the sensation of his debut [Malta Eagle], Houston proposed to Warner to make this film, even though a generation of film masters was Obscure, but the wise Warner boss Jack paid great attention to this plan, and immediately bought the right to adapt and planned an ultra-luxury lineup consisting of George Raft, Edward Robinson and John Garfield. Due to the advent of war, this plan was repeatedly shelved. Unexpectedly, the delay would last for a full seven years, spanning the entire period of World War II. During the war, Houston began filming documentaries for the U.S. government as a lieutenant of the Signal Corps. Co-director Robert Rosen patiently waited for his return. He rewrote the script himself and revised it nine times. When Houston, who returned in 1947, could finally put it into action, not only was the story almost reaped, but Humphrey Bogart, the old partner who was not amazing at the time, had also risen to Warner’s No. 1 Red Man. This acting guy listened to it. Said that Houston was going to direct a B. Travin novel, immediately called to ask for the role.
Speaking of the original author, B. Travin, there is also a strange anecdote. Travin's work in Mexico made a sensation in Shiye, but he himself never showed up. After shooting in Houston, he sent out a set tour to the idol writer. Travin refused to come in person and insisted on sending his friend "Hall Clovis" to be a technical consultant and translator on the set. At that time, various clues and later facts proved that this "Clovis" "It's the Telugu man, but this weird author refuses to admit it, and adds to the legendary mystery of [碧血金沙] and himself.
As we all know, the names of John Houston and Humphrey Bogart are as inseparable as John Ford and John Wayne, Martin Sicoses and Robert De Niro. At the beginning of the famous work [Eagle of Malta], the two are undoubtedly outstanding in the field of directing and performance, but what is more decisive is the alternative fit of the pair of gold medal partners in their personal values-if you say it in 1941 [Malta Eagle] also has some sense of catering to the detective trend. In 1948, the [碧血金沙] reached the pure extreme of rebelliousness. At that time, the Hollywood World War II heroism theme had not yet exited the stage, and social comedies had also appeared on the stage. At the stage when the audience’s aesthetics is becoming more comprehensive, aesthetic, and hippie, John Houston and Humphrey Bogart have gone the other way, taking the dark side of human nature as their own duty, and one who regards mainstream values as their own. Nothing, one self-subverts the hero image of the screen again and again, so that two cold-faced gentlemen meet together, the cruelty of the work can be imagined-the human nature of the role of Dubisi in [碧血金沙] The metamorphosis, the end of the self-digging grave, is the product of the two people's joint efforts. It was amazing enough, but in fact, in the filming, the ending of Dolby West was even more shocking: Houston is completely loyal to the original novel, showing Dolby naked. The bloody process of being cut by the robbers in the west and the knife from beginning to end, but due to the strict censorship system at the time, Houston had to edit again under pressure. As a director, his reluctance to cut love can be imagined, but it is worth mentioning that, As the character of the violent corpse in the film, Bogar was really surprised at how furiously this move was. The powerful superstar heard that his decapitation was cut off and immediately asked angrily: "A person's head was chopped off. What's wrong with it?" These two elders, big film confidants, are out-and-out old urchins on the set. John Houston starred in the film as an American tourist who was begged by Dolby West three times. Jia turned to hold the guide for this passage, and deliberately embarrassed the man and NG several times. It was a funny talk for a while. Although [碧血金沙] was very cruel on the screen, the shooting process outside the screen was called Warner. It is a model in the era of a great workshop.
In terms of performance, although the first protagonist Humphrey Bogart’s villain acting is as shocking as ever, the most famous performance in [碧血金沙] is the wonderful portrayal of the wise old man Howard, and the actor of this character Walter Houston is no one else, but the actor's father in reality in the director Houston. When Houston was creating the character of Howard, he used the image of his father as the prototype, and greatly changed the description of the original work. At the instigation of his son, Houston removed the beautiful dentures and spoke to the voice actor specially invited from Mexico. Round Spanish lines in ink style. During the filming process, old Houston’s radiant acting skills surprised everyone. It was only then that the producer Henry Blank saw the true strength of the old drama bone who entered the crew as a suspected back door, and he couldn’t help but start to worry. The old supporting actor robbed Warner’s No. 1 actor Humphrey Bogart from the limelight, so before each filming, he would specially pass a note to old Houston to remind him to constrain his performance and don’t try to steal the spotlight. Even so suppressed, the elder Houston managed to conquer all viewers, including the harsh director's son, and finally won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, along with John, who received two awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Houston (also the only time in Houston who has been nominated for best director nine times in his life), became the first father and son to win the statuette at the same time in the history of the Oscars. This Oscar for his soldiers, and even the stunts are Humphrey Bogart with his characteristic pungent language style praise: "Houston has a bad enough, two Houston is simply a murder."
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