There should be many players taking advantage of the timing of "Red Dead Redemption 2" to go to the western United States.
Without a host at home, I had to use this movie to dream of returning to the West.
The film mainly tells 6 independent old western stories, which are absurd and have a rather grim black humor.
If you have seen "No Country for Old Men", you should know something about the director's style - unexpected plots, often emphasizing a certain uncertainty of fate.
The Ballad and the Scarlet Tavern
The first story is actually called " The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ".
Buster is a western cowboy with a great voice and a guitar.
Seemingly gentle and optimistic, Buster, who likes to play and sing, is actually a pure extrajudicial fanatic .
The articulate Buster is not only good at singing, but also very good at hurting people.
Without saying a word, he mercilessly satirized the cowboy who was drinking in the pub.
The battle in the mouth is not enough.
The exasperated opponent just asked, "Is your gun still working?"
Buster immediately drew his gun to prove it. (never ask a cowboy if your gun still works)
In fact, I personally have less exposure to Western movies, so I was stunned by the brutal atmosphere of this kind of disagreement.
Before I could get used to it, Buster had already scored two kills in another tavern.
Under normal circumstances, the crowd should roar and flee.
But brave and fearless, ready to draw a gun at any time, the people of the West who had already tied their heads to their trousers obviously didn't think so.
Buster improvised a song "Grumpy Old Joe" to commemorate his defeated soldiers, and everyone sang and danced with him.
The atmosphere of joy permeates this tavern that has just died.
Well... the people of the West are much happier.
How can a Western movie be without the well-received duel with a gun!
Drawing guns is all about heartbeat.
What is important is that if you don't die, then I will feel the pleasure of dying.
So Buster died.
The first story is full of the spontaneity and wildness that is unique to Westerns.
Death is not always frightening.
Occasionally can also be used as an accompaniment in the tavern.
You draw the gun fast enough, so what, there is always someone faster than you.
When Buster fell, and the gust of wind had not finished,
There is a new ballad in this street, a new ballad hummed by the victors.
At that time, the United States had already entered modernization, but the West was still a place outside the law.
Therefore, life and death have destiny and wealth is in the sky, which has become a creed that everyone abides by on this rolling land of yellow sand.
Cowboy and the Gallows
The first episode focused on cowboys, revolvers, duels, taverns, desolate towns and more.
There are even details like Texas Hold'em.
*Robbies Township, Texas is the birthplace of Texas Hold'em, circa the early 1900s.
The famous term "nuts" was born in this era of the American westward movement, when many people went bankrupt playing cards, and even used carriages as collateral.
The second episode brings more must-have elements of westerns.
Wearing a black broad-brimmed hat, a revolver on his waist, a coarse bib around his neck, and riding boots, the rugged yet handsome cowboy walked into a bank.
Ready to rob.
Then he failed.
So simply and rudely, he was executed for the first time by hanging .
Perhaps he should not die, and a massacre was carried out in front of the Indians who came roaring in.
Killed all the cowboys sent to hang him.
Also saved his life.
The behavior of Indians scalping in battle is well reproduced.
* Native American Indian custom, two tribes at war, warriors usually wear the scalps of those they killed to show off their slaughter.
At the same time, white immigrants who came to the Americas also cut off the scalps of the Indians in the Indian Holocaust.
The two sides began to cut each other.
The "lucky" robber was rescued by a passing good-hearted man.
It's a pity that this good-hearted man was actually a cattle thief . The two of them rode together. The cattle thief caught a glimpse of the sheriff's figure from a distance, and immediately abandoned him.
The robbers who were too late to clear their relationship were caught again.
The sheriff's verdict is off the hook, so hang him.
Within a day, the fledgling robber walked back and forth at the entrance of Death's house several times.
One is born, the second is cooked.
The protagonist who was taken to the gallows again not only looked calm, but also asked the person who was crying beside him with great interest.
- "First time?"
(Who would have thought that the gallows can also go up twice)
In both stories, it seems that there is a god of death casually swinging a revolver, ready to draw a quick fire and take away a "lucky one".
Unforeseen death is also one of the favorite motifs of Western movies and the Coen brothers.
Wingless Parrot and Chicken
The first two stories can also be regarded as common routines in Western movies.
And the Coen brothers, who had spilled blood and shot empty bullets, decided to be serious and explore human nature and destiny in the third story through the skin of a western.
The protagonist of the story is a talented one-armed "artist".
It was carried around by a merchant in a carriage.
Merchants are responsible for collecting performance fees.
(The actor is Harry's cousin Dali, I really didn't recognize it)
It's a pity that the audience gradually became less and less, and the rewards became less and less.
The businessman's eyes also became more indifferent. The eyes of the artist are as always lonely and gloomy.
The third story is called "Meal Tickets".
When the artist can no longer attract the audience, the meal ticket no longer deserves to be called a meal ticket.
The businessman bought a "mathematical chicken" that was more eye-catching and could do arithmetic.
This land is so beautiful and vast, yet so cruel and realistic.
How can a wingless parrot be compared to a god chicken that can count.
The ending of the story was smashed into the bottomless glacier like this.
The businessman driving the car started a new journey.
Gold and the Promised Land
Canaan, also known as the Promised Land.
As a holy place for the Israelites, it was originally the place where Abraham led the believers to seek.
The Old Testament says it was a place "flowing with milk and honey."
Whether Canaan is really flowing with milk and honey is unknown.
However, when the west was pioneering, oil and gold flowed on this land.
* On the eve of the third massive wave in population, American immigrant Sutter discovered gold near Sacramento, California, and news of the discovery was extended by the adventurous businessman, manipulator, and land speculator Branna to worldwide.
The gold rush ignited the entire western United States, and a large influx of capital and population.
In the fourth story, the professor wanted to dig out the gold mine with all his heart, and he lived and slept all the way. His daily task was to find, dig, pan for gold, collect, and mark.
Finally succeeded in finding a gold mine.
At the moment of success, he was shot and cut off by the gangster who had been following him for a long time.
If it only stopped at this moment, it would be a simple story of failure and success.
Here is the west.
In this land, even if the gunshots sounded, before the god of death rolled the dice,
Whether it is a song of joy or a song of mourning, it cannot be sung too early.
But apart from the two protagonists of the story, no one seems to care much about the story that just happened.
The professor left with the donkey, and the disturbed animal returned to peace.
Owls stared into the distance, and deer strolled past the burial pits.
Light cloud and wind.
Like, nothing happened.
Even in the noisy west, people are so small in front of nature.
In this wild west, there have been countless legends, but none of them are mentioned in the movie.
The Coen brothers just seemed to understate six stories about death and the impermanence of fate, absurd and true.
About four of them are told here, and the others are equally wonderful.
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