Western Myth and Western Reality

Margarita 2022-04-23 07:01:08

Very simple beginning, but the story is very clear, the prostitutes have been trampled on their dignity and want revenge to achieve justice. At the same time, it narrates a Westinghouse cowboy who is getting older and has returned to his prodigal son, and his poor but relatively peaceful life. Because of revenge, the stories between them are likely to be connected. The madness of the western landscape is mixed with tranquility and serenity, and at the same time contains murderous aura.

Reminds me of an old Chinese saying that people die for wealth and birds die for food. This is the law of survival.

Conversation in prison is very interesting, not only faster than who's gun, but also more calm and calm than who. When everyone narrates himself, he is full of romantic fantasies, and the difference between here and there shows the ridiculousness of human nature.

Until the last moment, this is an anti-genre, anti-Western cowboy movie, completely stripped of pride and romance, and confronted with the mud of cruelty, fear, and life. The motives of the characters' pursuit of money are love, love for their children, loyalty to their wives, and the final revenge massacre is for great friendship.

Interesting text, western myth and western reality. What you hear is not necessarily true, but it is not entirely unfounded.

Such a simple story can capture such a human connotation. It is thought-provoking, intriguing, and yet exciting. It's a really good film.

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  • Llewellyn 2021-10-20 19:00:25

    The Dongmu Film Festival is rare, the copyright is not easy, and the quality of the film is also high, thanks to the fact that the father rarely missed it. Western killer movies have a mixed world principle that is different from the general public. Even if they don't understand why the detectives obstruct bounty hunters in every way, it is not impossible to directly put the two sides in opposition to good and evil, but it is hard to say who is good and who is evil. Western cowboys and brutal villains have contributed many breath-holding moments to the audience. The director in front seems to be deconstructing the routine, and at the end he returns to the beloved lone hero. As of 1993, with this film winning BP and BD, Dongmu is just like killer William, enough to rely on his fame for the first half of his life.

  • Hollis 2022-03-22 09:01:09

    The recollection of "lost martial arts", the deconstruction of the "legends of the rivers and lakes", the commemoration of "the glorious past life", the obedience to the "poverty life", so many awesome legends, it is nothing more than a lucky person who drank too much Doing stupid things, wherever there is wildness in the west? There are legends where there are people who climb the grid. I have killed people before, and I don't want to kill anymore.

Unforgiven quotes

  • Ned Logan: Hell, Will. We ain't bad men no more. Shit, we're farmers.

    Will Munny: Should be easy killing them, supposing they don't go on down to Texas first.

    Ned Logan: How long has it been since you fired a gun at a man, Will? Nine, ten years?

    Will Munny: Eleven.

    Ned Logan: Easy, huh? Hell, I don't know that it was all that easy even back then. And we was young and full of beans. I mean, if you was mad at 'em, Will, I mean. If they'd done you some wrong, I could see shooting 'em.

    Will Munny: We done stuff for money before, Ned.

    Ned Logan: Yeah, we thought we did. All right, so what did these fellas do? Cheat at cards? Steal some strays? Spit on a rich fella? What?

    Will Munny: No, they cut up a woman.

    Ned Logan: What?

    Will Munny: Yeah, they cut up her face, cut her eyes out, cut her fingers off, cut her tits, everything but her cunty, I suppose.

    Ned Logan: I'll be dogg - Golly, I guess they got it comin'. 'Course, you know, Will, if Claudia was alive you wouldn't be doin' this.

  • Little Bill Daggett: Look son, being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don't do no harm, but it don't mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire, like as not, he'll kill ya.

    W.W. Beauchamp: But if the other fella is quicker, and fires first...

    Little Bill Daggett: Then he'll be hurrying, and he'll miss. Look here...

    [stands and draws his gun]

    Little Bill Daggett: That's about as fast as I can draw, and aim, and hit anything more than ten feet away... 'less it's a barn.

    W.W. Beauchamp: But if he doesn't miss?

    Little Bill Daggett: Then he'll kill ya.

    [chuckles]

    Little Bill Daggett: Yeah, that's why there's so few dangerous men around like old Bob, like me. It ain't so easy to shoot a man anyhow, especially if the son-of-a-bitch is shootin' back at you. I mean, that'll just flat rattle some folks.