a knight who walks alone in the wilderness, an unparalleled quick grab, and a plot of revenge that is
different but also very different.
This cowboy is not a fake Dakong who sees injustice on the road,
but is single-minded and even inhumane. Although he helped the poor widow
, he was also taking advantage of her. From this perspective, Xia An, who helped him, was more like a real chivalrous person who stabbed his friends. Unfortunately, the director finally let him die. in line with convention.
The film is not Gu Long, because Gu Long can only live in fantasy, and what the film leaves to the audience is the advent of a great era behind the protagonist, and this poor widow is becoming the protagonist of this era. This is also the difference between Gu Long and Jin Yong. Although Gu Long is more bizarre, I prefer Jin Yong. There are many kinds of imaginings. Gu Long is a visionary who is completely out of bounds, while Jin Yong is an experience school that makes the hero more real. The difference between Westerns is also here. It has the most classic Western elements, but it heralds the end of the Western era.
The deaths of Xia An and Frank are officially the punctuation of the end of an era, and the protagonist can only be perfect when he leaves. If he really stays, it will make people feel very funny. A doomsday hero must be tragic. Instead of turning into a peaceful citizen, the stationmaster of a railway station after completing the major events of Jingtianweidi, it is too anti-traditional to look bad.
In addition to this off-topic impression, I don't think the greatest part of this widely recognized western movie lies in the acting skills of the actors. On the contrary, I think any combination of actors will be very good, just like the protagonist is not the director's best at all. Favorite candidates are the same. So what makes this film great? I think the tone of this film is outstanding. Besides, when knights, villains, and gangsters are all drowned in the torrent of the times, you will find that this is actually an anti-Western film, and the winner is a future full of Widow, even if she even wanted to start with the murderer of her own husband.
From the point of view of human nature, whether it is Xia An or the widow, or even the rich lame man who takes the train as his leg, it is much stronger than the two protagonists.
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