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Continue to read IMDB250 series. This movie was released in 1948. It is very old, and there are few references to it in various channels, so I have never heard of it. Where is it excellent? Holding this question, I finished watching the film.
The movie tells the story of three people going to the mountains to pan for gold together. A lazy and stupid American who wanders on the streets of Mexico can never find a job that meets his own wishes. One day, he met an old man in a small hotel with an American fellow he had just met, and the old man told a story about a gold rush. After hearing this story, the two young men decided to take the old man and go to the mountains to pan for gold. The three of them easily found the veins containing gold and started to work. When everyone has more and more sands, everyone's suspicion is getting heavier and heavier. After encountering a few things on the mountain, they finally decided to go down the mountain and sell the sands. On the final journey, the old man was invited by the Indians, leaving only the two of them to move on. The man who proposed to pan for gold, seeing the profit and forgetting his righteousness, became murderous and decided to swallow all the sands. He killed another person and escaped by himself. But the other person did not die. He found the old man, and the two went looking for the man together. The escaped man unfortunately met the robber and died in the desert. Jinsha was also dumped as sand by the robber and then blown away by the strong wind. Finally, when the old man and young man could not find Jinsha, they knew that they were busy. The film ends with the laughter and helplessness of two people.
The name of the movie actually expresses the plot, and the translation is quite accurate. Looking at the four literal words "Bi Xue Jinsha", it feels like Taiwan's translation habits, or this has been translated before the founding of the Republic of China, and has been used all the time. In the whole movie, there are both "Blue Blood" and "Golden Sands". I have never encountered a movie title translated so closely to the plot.
The time of this movie is not short, reaching more than 120 minutes, but the process of watching it is not boring at all. The plot of the film is relaxed and compact, with no extra shots, and all the pictures occupy an important position in the film. The lack of one minute will result in incomplete character and plot. The storytelling method in this film is very common: a single single-line narrative mode. For example, the story told in the second scene is what happened after the end of the story in the first scene. This is true for every scene, and so on, until the end of the movie. There is only one story line in the whole film, which looks very comfortable and effortless. Although the narrative method is simple, the director filmed it vividly and vividly. Every scene has a foreshadowing to make you want to keep watching. This makes the movie itself very attractive and attracts the audience to watch it.
I have watched too many movies, so when I watch a movie, I often guess the direction of the plot, but the plot of this movie makes me often guess wrong. For example, at the very beginning I thought that the old man was not a good person. He might secretly kill those two people to steal gold, might join forces with robbers, might join Indians, etc., but he survived to the end, and he was still a good person; Also, I think the fourth person who goes up the mountain is either a policeman or a robber, but he turned out to be a good man who loves his family and his wife; of course, I also think that other men besides the male lead are also badass and will stealthily steal. Gold or something, but he didn't do that. In short, I guess good people are bad people, I'm too innocent! Blame it, the modern film directors have written the characters that everyone may be bad guys, and they are deeply poisoned by them. Hey, the movies of the 1950s are still innocent.
Although I guessed good guys as bad guys, but I didn't guess bad guys as good guys, this movie shouldn't be a failure for me. From the first scene of the film, the leading actor did not make a good impression. Asking for money everywhere, and only one person wants it; I feel tired at any job and refuse to endure hardship; often complain about suitable things, complain about others, and so on. To sum up his character, he is selfish, lazy, selfless, selfless, suspicious, and talkative, but his biggest shortcoming is that he has no principles, and no principles have harmed it. If there are principles, the actor should be like what he said at the beginning of the hotel, and stop after reaching his goals; if there are principles, he should not suspect his partner; if there are principles, he will not guess other people’s ideas; there are principles If he does, he will not kill his savior. The male protagonist has no principled nature, which is revealed when the film asks for money at the beginning. If there is a principle, he will not stubbornly ask a person for money. There is no way to see his advantages in this film. It is normal for a person like this to commit murder and steal money in the end. In the end, he deserved the crime and deserved it!
Through the characters and stories created in this film, the directors will undoubtedly reveal the good and evil of human nature. In the face of desire, a certain principle is needed to contain one's "evil" side. Of course, this principle can also be called morality. If you write here, you can't write it anymore, and write it again to make sense. In short, through the confrontation between good and evil and the fateful ending at the end of the film, the film still conveys a very positive theme-that evil can overcome righteousness. When you can't punish the evil one yourself, God will naturally come to help you.
The actors of this movie were not very familiar at first, and after checking the information, I realized that the actor is the famous Humphrey Bogart! I said, why is the male protagonist so handsome. According to the information, he has starred in "Casablanca", but I have no impression at all, of course it is the impression of the film. Did Humphrey Bogart shoot all black and white films? Pity. If it is a color film, his image may be more handsome. In this film, Walter Huston, the actor of the old man, perfectly portrays a brainy and scheming elderly gold digger. With this film, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, which he deserves. Walter Huston was born in 1884 and has been far away from our time for a long time. I didn't expect that I could see his image in 2011. The movie is really amazing. Although Tim Holt, the other leading actor, did not win the prize, his performance is not inferior to the two. Unfortunately, he has too little information to understand him better.
The film won the Oscar for best director, best supporting actor, and best screenwriter three awards. Winning these awards is not a vain reputation. In short, this is a good film, worth watching.
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2011-06-16
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