The Western World in the Eyes of Italians

Rubie 2021-10-22 14:31:25

I have always been interested in works on American Western subjects. Some time ago, when playing Red Dead Redemption: Redemption, I felt that I was completely addicted to the game. I was deeply attracted by the landscape and humanities of the wild west. Once imagined to be able to cross into the western world. It is a feeling of freedom and unrestrainedness, a world where the prodigal travels the world and sees and hears everywhere.

I have known the movie "Red Dead Redemption" for some time, but I haven't had the opportunity to watch it. This time, through the limited time of the holiday, I found the Red Dead Redemption trilogy online.

It is said that the first step in Red Dead is to completely copy Kurosawa Akira's "Intentional Stick", so that half of the final box office revenue was awarded to Kurosawa Akira. But in any case, this film is a success, it should be a model for the opening of Hollywood Western blockbusters. The plot of the first part is very simple. The bounty hunter played by Eastwood comes to a small town on the border between the United States and Mexico. This small town is controlled by two forces, one is Bandit Simon and the other is the evil force represented by the town sheriff. (In that era of underdeveloped information traffic, presumably the wild west was dominated by evil forces everywhere.) The protagonist succeeded in causing conflicts between the two forces and killing each other through repeated tactics. There is a sense of profit for the fisherman. But when the film finally focused on the Simon gang fire and the Sheriff’s family, it must be sympathetic, and at the same time it highlights the cruelty of the Simon’s gang.

But if you judge it purely from likes and dislikes, perhaps this movie produced in the 1960s is not very in line with my aesthetics. The story is simple, but the story is slow. The whole movie is too heroic and the protagonist's halo is too strong. In addition, the IQ of the big boss is too low and too rigid. I was frightened just because I hit the other person’s heart and didn’t respond.

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Extended Reading
  • Colt 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    The soundtrack always makes me feel that Yan Chixia will fly over from the horizon in the next second. . .

  • Madisyn 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    I saw Kurosawa Akira and Kikushima Ryuzo appear in the screenwriter... When Schwarzenegger played the Terminator, he must have learned from Eastwood.

A Fistful of Dollars quotes

  • Don Miguel Rojo: That's the right idea? You didn't misunderstand?

    Joe: I get the wrong idea only when it suits me.

    Ramon Rojo: You are well informed, eh?

    Joe: A man's life in these parts often depends on a mere scrap of information. Your brother's own words.

    Ramon Rojo: Tell me. Why are you doing this for us?

    Joe: [Holds out his hand with a response that is almost a question] Five hundred dollars.

  • John Baxter: Wait! Ramon! We'll pack up we'll leave, anything!

    Ramon Rojo: Are you sure Baxter?

    John Baxter: I swear it Ramon.

    Ramon Rojo: Maybe you should discuss it with your wife. I don't think she'll be too happy!

    [shoots him]