the beginning of the film
Take Shi Sanyazi 's exposition in the section "The Problem of So-called "Excessive": "Revolution is not a dinner party, an essay, a painting or embroidery, it can't be so elegant, so calm, so gentle, so gentle, courteous and thrifty. Revolution is a riot. , is the violent action of one class to overthrow another." Explains the essence of the revolution for the introduction:
Director Sergio Leone is an attack on the traditional Western, and he has built what he imagined a Western utopia. "Giù la testa" cannot be said to be a Western in a pure sense, because it is more about revolution.
Leoney also overplays the appearance of the two protagonists: the film begins as a miserable, hilarious Ann Hu (Rod Steiger), unshaven and with a slice of bread tucked in her belly. Immediately after a carriage passed by, the ladies and gentlemen in the carriage saw him being stupid and arrogant and pulled him up to be a servant. We see that these famous nobles in the car have only money and power in a seriously insignificant world. They scoff at the country bumpkins like Ann Hu, and reject the world of the poor. They only know how to sit in a carriage and talk about some nonsense. Don't worry, this is a turning point, and it is also the display of Leone's genius. The carriage was hijacked by a group of bandits. At this time, the poor and funny Ann Hu came out of the carriage. It turned out that he was this group. The leader of the thieves, the nobles just now took back their arrogant attitude. Ann Hu pointed a pistol at them and refuted the theory of wealth and wealth in the carriage of these nobles. He was so angry that he vented on these nobles.
There was an explosion in the distance
After Ann Hu and his bandit brothers finished cleaning up the rich people, there was an explosion in the distance. Looking around, there were violent explosions one after another in the valley, and the dust was flying. In the rolling loess, a man riding a motorcycle and wearing a military cap slowly drove across the mountain road. A clever thief fired a shot at the wheel and the car came to a stop. That man was Sean (James Coburn), another key figure. The thief tried to scare him at first, but the guy who always smiled would turn him off. As soon as the button was opened, it turned out that his clothes were full of explosives. If he died, the map of the whole mountain would be rewritten. Ann Hu had a more ambitious conspiracy brewing in her mind at this time, using Sean's explosives to rob the bank. Sean is a man who does his own way and is completely at ease. He doesn't want to be at the mercy of anyone, and of course he has no interest in this plan, but Ann Hu now recognizes Sean as the Irish Republican Army who wants a reward in town. of terrorists. In this way, the two still decided to cooperate.
The tone of the whole film is like a caricature, the first half is comedy, the second half becomes heavy and dark, and has a sentimental color. Ann Hu, Sean and a group of bandits came to the bank. Ann Hu entered the bank alone and found that there was no money, but instead saved many revolutionary fighters. Unexpectedly, he became a revolutionary hero, but his family and his bandit gang but no longer exists.
