Guanshan Feidu

Godfrey 2022-09-19 21:23:58

There are two kinds of food programs in "Flying Over Mount Guan": one is to present the ingredients first and then juggle them into a delicious food step by step; the other is to recommend delicious food and then analyze the details. But I'm not talking about the difference between the main story and the flashback, or the difference between "Everyday Meal" and "A Bite of China". There are also two types of narrative films: one is that even if the key characters in the film appear one by one at the beginning, they explain their identities and backgrounds, and then start again; people. In other words, one is the flow of time and the other is the flow of people. (Of course, there is another kind of stream of consciousness) "Flying over Mount Guan" belongs to the former. Nine people with different backgrounds and personalities, including bankers, peddlers, gangsters, avengers, prostitutes, pregnant women, policemen, doctors, and, of course, coachmen, just because they have the same destination, accidentally sit in one. in a wagon drawn by six horses. I know that there are thieves who kill people without blinking an eye on the road ahead. It's more of a road movie than a Western. The music, scenes, and narrative rhythm are all good! But I don't like its finale. The final duel was a little hasty, rising high and falling gently. It is too old-fashioned to have a happy ending like the one who loves each other and go to the paradise together. But how can it be strange, after all, this is a work from the 1930s.

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Stagecoach quotes

  • Marshal Curly Wilcox: Now folks, if we push on we can be in Apache Wells by sundown. Soldiers there will give us an escort as far as the ferry. Then it's only a hoot and a holler into Lordsburg. We got four men who can handle firearms - five with you, Ringo. Doc can shoot if sober.

  • [the stagecoach occupants vote on whether to continue without a cavalry escort]

    Marshal Curly Wilcox: You, Doc?

    Dr. Josiah Boone: I'm not only a philosopher, sir, I'm a fatalist. Somewhere, sometime, there may be the right bullet or the wrong bottle waiting for Josiah Boone. Why worry when or where?

    Marshal Curly Wilcox: Yes or no?

    Dr. Josiah Boone: Having that philosophy, sir, I've always courted danger. During the late war - when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great president, Abraham Lincoln... and General Phil Sheridan - well, sir, I fought mid shot and shell and cannon roar...

    Marshal Curly Wilcox: Do you wanna go back or not?

    Dr. Josiah Boone: No! I want another drink.