Yeke The west wind swept across the sky with wild sand, and the air was depressed and suffocating.
The three big men were sitting outside the waiting room of a certain station in the west, waiting for something. Under the boring expression is the inner anxiety that I tried to hide. The water on the eaves slipped drop by drop into the curly brim of a big man, and gradually filled with water. The big man took off his hat and drank the water. Another big guy was playing with a dirty fly with his mouth, hands, and guns, and another big guy seemed to be too lazy to move...
a whimper-like harmonica cut through the sand, The empty and withered station echoed all around. The three big guys suddenly lifted up their spirits and stood up abruptly, vigilantly searching for the source of the sound of the piano.
A man in ragged clothes and playing a harmonica finally appeared in his field of vision...
"Once Upon a Time in the West" opened with the above poetic scene, which seemed so cruel and beautiful.
American Western movies have gone through a century, and the bizarre but uniform typification and conceptualization have made people gradually tired and numb. But when I turned on the disc player last night and the above scenes appeared on the TV screen, I saw the beautiful beauty of the west after a long absence, and an impulse to meet and hate night suddenly surged from my heart. It turns out that without John Ford and John Wayne, without Clint Eastwood or Kevin Costner, Western movies can still shock the soul, can still be so deep and timeless, and can still be so infinitely hurt. Pregnant. When the heroine appeared in the picture, as the music sounded, a groaning female voice instantly filled the room and filled the entire chest. A touch of a stranger’s homeland occupied my heart, what a familiar and sad music, the first time I met it, it was also on a platform, a man nicknamed noodles was sending off his beloved farewell, drifting away The going train left him helpless. It was an equally great film, and it was also a story about memories and forgetting, and it was also the life experience of a few men and women in the great era-"Once Upon a Time in America". These two masterpieces are from one person, Sergio Leone, an Italian in the United States. And this heartbreaking music is running through his trilogy of past events.
The story of "Once Upon a Time in the West" is also an ancient legend, a film that knows the beginning and the end, but this kind of story falls into Leon's hands, but once again radiates vitality and moving emotions. The same is to eliminate violence and Anliang, but the boundary between good and evil has faded and blurred. "The villain" Frank's all-wickedness is upright and open. The revenge of the "good guy" harmonica is dark, secretive and frightening. "Wanted" Sai Young can be regarded as a courageous and responsible man. But the "unfortunate widow" is a woman who believes in the first life philosophy of relying on the strong. In this film, you can’t see John Wayne’s awe-inspiring justice, you can’t see Eastwood’s ambitious hero’s twilight years, Costner’s compassionate people, and you can’t see Sam Paginpa. Bloody and cruel. In Sergio Leone’s eyes, there are more ordinary people who live to live. Of these people, there are naturally no shortage of so-called heroes and villains, justice and evil, but they appear more natural, more real, and more natural. Close to real life. Frank is rampant and arrogant and arrogant, and once he finds that he is alone, his unconcealed loneliness and fear are even stronger than that of a commoner; the harmonica is exhausted, and finally the vengeance is paid, but his heart is lost. The joy of successful revenge was so shocked that it disappeared. This "Fu Hongxue"-like man can only choose to be a lone wolf in his life, cruising in the wild west desert. When a woman asks him, "When will you come back again?" His answer is doomed to be helpless: "Someday Right." A life of loneliness is his endless destiny. In contrast, the "wanted criminal" Celeron lived a more free and fulfilling life. He did not need to look forward and backward when doing things. He always acted recklessly, lived happily and died unrestrainedly. The film is full of lingering sentiment from beginning to end. This sentiment is unique to Leon and cannot be copied or imitated. The end of the film reveals some bright colors. The gradually growing sweetwater town symbolizes the vitality and vitality of the western development. Leonne tries to tell us: the development and development of the western United States is precisely because of these various people. Adventure, hard work, beast-like tenacity and unscrupulous survival, it is precisely with this so-called "American spirit" that a "western dream" has finally become a reality. But the director himself has doubts and questions about this spirit. Recalling the past in the West, shooting the past in the West, is just to play with and reflect on this spirit. It is this process from primitive to advanced, from wild to civilization.
The music of the film is excellent and unique. It lingers in and out of the play, lingering in the hearts of every audience. If you don't like this movie, you can close your eyes and listen to it. It will also be a musical journey about the past, which is really a rare enjoyment. The pictures of the film are equally sophisticated. The distant view presents a large-scale western style picture scroll. There are many close-up close-ups, mostly concentrated on the faces of people, making a portrait of a person vivid and vivid. Sergio is not only a master of narration, but also a master of images. CCTV6 quoted the end of "Once Upon a Time in the West" at the end of the feature film "2000 World Film Review", which is undoubtedly the most noble tribute to the passing master. Sergio bid farewell to the movie prematurely. It is said that he still had a lot of grand plans and formations before his death: for example, he planned to cooperate with Robert De Niro again, such as shooting a larger-scale epic movie...Unfortunately, everything ended. It's a pity. With the decline of masters in contemporary movies, for movie fans, they have no choice but to live in an unfortunate era. We can only choose to retrospect, although sometimes retrospective is exciting and exciting, but it is still just retrospective. So watching a movie like "Once Upon a Time in the West" appeared in our sight, while we were overjoyed and admired, did we also feel inexplicably sad?
Regarding the actor, Henry Fonda does not need to say, this is the first time I have seen him play a villain. Although Fonda, who was more than half a hundred years old, had a tall and straight figure, a vigorous skill, and a restrained man. The acting is more superb. The role of "Frank" is completely comparable to Paul Newman in "Little Tiger" and Gene Hackman in "Unmitigated". And the most brilliant in the film is Charles Bronson, who has always been criticized as "unable to act." This tough action guy who appeared in many Western movies such as "The Heroic Seven Dragons" and "Red Sun" shines in "Once Upon a Time in the West". The "Harmonica Boy" he played in this film lasted more than 2 hours and 30 years. There are less than forty sentences in the minute-long film. As the protagonist, especially as a star who plays an action movie, it is obviously a very high challenge. But Bronson used his eyes and actions to show the personality of the characters radiantly. He interprets the image of a taciturn and deep-hearted Avenger surrounded by fate, especially the scene where he bids farewell to the crowd and walks alone. It is very exciting and touching.
"Once Upon a Time in the West" is a movie that everyone who loves movies must watch. It is outstanding in every respect. Because for the past, whether it is for nostalgia or forgetting, he is as intoxicating as alcohol...
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