The film Once Upon a Time in the West was set up for the Lone Ranger from the very beginning; it made me laugh very dramatically at the beginning, first of all three of Frank's men terrorize an old man in his train station cabin. At the beginning, the old man said when he saw the three popular players: If you want to buy a ticket, you should go ahead. After being looked at by the cowboy, he was immediately underwhelmed. The old man's smile made me feel very delicate and strong, and the old lady next to her saw this situation and wanted to start running, but she was pulled back. Perhaps, the old man's reaction speed was not high, but he was trembling, and he still spoke his principles; but obviously this principle could not solve the problem, so the old man said: Oh, I think this is also possible. Then he took out three tickets, handed them to the cowboy, and then showed a genuine smile. However, after the cowboy took over the three tickets, the old man said happily: Seven dollars.... Before the words were finished, the cowboy had already let go of the three tickets and was blown away by the wind. The old man realized that he was in danger and trembled. Trembling and speaking: Fifty points. There is one detail, you can see that the old man is actually the one with the most delicate expression in this film.
How delicate?
Let me first bring up two salient points.
1. The old man said three tickets. After the cowboy caught the tickets, his neck moved slightly forward, and he put on a real smile and said seven dollars. Then the neck moves slightly forward. People who do not have a certain foundation in acting are very learned, and it is difficult to know; have you found that when we care about others and condolences, our necks will move forward slightly or to a large extent? ? The wonderful thing is that the old man moves slightly!
2. After the cowboy let go of the three tickets and was blown away by the wind, the old man's eyes, his trembling voice and his face cooperated perfectly.
In fact, the previous film had a slight laugh when the old lady ran away. The difficulty lies in the continuity of this laugh. Although it is slight, it is profound.
Second, the harmonica is popular
After that, one of the bearded cowboys seemed to me to have a great contradiction; first, when he was sitting in a chair and squinting, the machine beside him kept making noises and noises, and he was torn off with one hand. And when he fainted a fly, he didn't save the fly's life. The fly got in his way. When the fly fell into his cell phone, he was very proud, but then he released the fly. From here, we can see that this detail can also reflect part of the culture of the Ming family.
When the train came, the three cowboy bandits were ready; when the train left, the protagonist began to appear.
The director did a very good job in this part. From here, he explained the characteristics of the protagonist. First, he played the harmonica, so that the three cowboy bandits who had relaxed their vigilance realized, and highlighted the anchoring sense of the protagonist and the music, and then we had a conditioned reflex, What is the conditioned reflex?
As long as you hear the harmonica, it is the moment when the protagonist comes on stage, and the protagonist's appearance directly peaks and presents his own sharpshooter characteristics.
The protagonist said, Frank?
The three cowboys shook their heads and said, Frank called us.
The protagonist said, did you bring me a horse?
Ridiculously said of the three cowboys, it looks like we're missing a horse.
The protagonist shook his head and said, you brought two too many horses.
After saying this, before the three cowboys on the opposite side fired, they had already hit each other with three shots; however, in the end, he was also shot once, which allows us to understand that the protagonist is an excellent gunslinger, but The protagonist is still human, not so deified. When the protagonist got up after being shot, the moment he clasped his arm with his clothes, I felt quite innocuous, and I still had the ability to fight again.
3. The Irish father and son hunt for land
, and then prepare to welcome guests, but the family of four all died tragically under Frank's hands. The Irishman is a very speculative person, and the land he bought is of great resource value. This goes to the heart of the film, the land grab between the railroad tycoon and the widow.
Afterwards, the widow Jill and Shane met at an inn, and the protagonist, who was popular with the harmonica, also met Shane there. So how did Shane get involved in this matter? Because of Frank's framed accusation, which family of four did he kill, and Shane is a well-known robber in the town, doing so can get the valuable land and solve the problem of Shane. A bit of a snake.
When we went to see the widow and saw that the whole family of four died tragically, they were still rummaging for anything of value, and we already understood that this woman had great interests and was very smart.
From here begins an intensive connection of three men with one woman.
4. Three men,
the Irishman and the lame Morton, are the ones who see the future, unlike a bunch of cowboys. But, despite being able to see the future, they didn't understand the rules of how cowboys behave, so they lost their lives.
Widow Jill knew that Frank would not let him go. In order to save his life, he did not hesitate to sacrifice his body, and Frank was also dumped by Jill's temptation. Jill wants to keep the town and fulfill her husband's wish.
Jill's land was bought by Harmonica Hunter, and Frank wanted to buy it back from Harmonica Hunter; but Frank was betrayed by his companions and was saved by Harmonica Hunter.
But they were his people, Jill said.
The harmonica hitter said yes, they wanted to kill him.
Jill said, but you saved him!
The harmonica hitter said, I just don't let them kill him, that's not the same thing.
This involves the problem of the protagonist. If he kills him now, there will be no follow-up story; if the protagonist does not kill, it represents his conceit, or it may be that he must kill Frank himself to solve the past hatred.
5. The harmonica is in demand.
There's a lot of flair when Frank talks to the harmonica hitter.
Frank said, Morton once told me enough, I would never be like him, and now I know why.
Harmonica hits say, so you find you're not a businessman at all?
Frank said it was just one person.
Harmonica hits say, an ancient race.
This may be the end of the Western hits, and the harmonica hits at the back also said that the other Mortons would come back and wipe it out.
Frank said that the future has nothing to do with us, and it has nothing to do with the present, not for apprentices, not for money, not for women, I am here as looking for you.
At the moment of Frank's death, the identity of the harmonica sought-after was also deciphered. Three men, the harmonica hitter is still alive at the end.
The harmonica hitter rejected Widow Jill and left with dignity.
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