1. The plot is
accustomed to the fast-paced contemporary era, and many people may think this movie is too slow. However, sometimes we watch movies just to enjoy two or three hours of quiet time when we temporarily forget about fame, fortune and trivial life, and follow the director to experience the life journey of the leading and supporting roles, thereby indirectly enriching our experience of life. Therefore, there is really no need to worry about how the story develops. Instead, you can think about how the writer and director tell the story.
The advancement of this plot is made by the protagonist's few words, the centralized information disclosure in breakpoint style, and the audience's use of logic and image processing. This sense of participation can give people a kind of rational satisfaction, far higher than a movie that treats the audience as an idiot.
2.
The mission of the character Lone Ranger is revenge, but what he wants is not a simple one-shot kill, but a duel of knights. So he even saved his life from the muzzle of his enemy's betrayal. He must not only win in terms of ability and courage, but also take revenge mentally and psychologically. Perhaps only in this way can he be relieved of his humiliation. Therefore, he never said who he was, but he used the sound of the harmonica to show his intentions many times, but Frank had killed too many people and it took too long to remember. It wasn't until the end that he shoved the harmonica into the mouth of Frank who lost the duel in the same way that Frank understood.
Jill, an aspiring woman, married a shrewd Irishman in New Orleans a month ago, but when she arrived on the wild west train with high hopes, she didn't wait. who greeted her. She was a widow as soon as she came out. However, she did not choose to leave. She was stubborn, but the environment was dangerous, and she had to find someone she could rely on. Originally, the two sparked a spark when they met Lone Ranger, but Lone Ranger's revenge mission did not allow him to have a long-term relationship. Although the local snake Shane has an Oedipus-like affection for her, he is no longer the opponent of the railway tycoons Mr. Train and Frank, and has even been framed. Considering the situation, she accepted the ferocious and cunning Frank. After the duel, Jill retained the lone ranger who had already decided, hoping that he would come back one day. The lone ranger just replied some day.
Frank is a hired ruthless killer who once tortured the Lone Ranger's father and now the Irishman and his three lovely children. I have learned a lot from the cooperation with Mr. Train, and I want to replace him with his own business, but his IQ is not enough. If he was not a loner, he would have been bought by Mr. Train for his life. People have self-knowledge, and self-expansion is unacceptable.
Shane is a gang leader who has been eliminated by the times. He appeared in handcuffs (captured by the official) and left with a gunshot wound (injured by the railroad capitalist). What is intriguing is that at the auction where Jill inherited the estate of his deceased husband, he was actually brought out by the Lone Ranger and kept Jill's property at the value of the $5,000 bounty.
Morton (railroad tycoon Mr. Train) is a representative of emerging capitalists, with a high IQ and a disability. His wish is to build a railway that runs through the United States from east to west, so that he can see the blue Atlantic before his death. In him, it is confirmed that "from head to toe, every pore drips with blood and dirty things".
3. Acting, picture, music
Henry Fong (Frank) and Charles Bronson (Lone Ranger) performed very well, and every expression, every look, every action was impressive. The heroine Jill's psychological activities are also very full, always affecting the eyes of men and the hearts of the audience.
The picture, whether it is a close-up, a panorama or a distant view, every shot is like an oil painting. The panorama at the beginning and end of the film, especially at the end, when you see the lone ranger riding a horse, leading the horse carrying the dying Shane, and the disappearing back of the film, heralds the end of an era, but it makes people miss it for a long time, very much. sad.
Music, in addition to the right soundtrack, the natural sounds in the film are very real, including trains, windmills, flies, hummingbirds, water, gunshots, etc. Together with the oil painting-like images, they give people a similar space and beautiful enjoyment .
I haven't written for a long time, and I haven't seen such a long-lasting movie for a long time, so I made a few notes. Let us slowly savor a bygone era.
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