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The bell rang in the border town of Mexico. When the arms dealers gang represented by Baxter was destroyed, and when the wine dealers gang headed by Lochos disintegrated, Joe stepped on his horse and experienced gunfire. Before the town, Joe said: "The US government is on one side, the Mexican government is on the other side, and I'm in the middle. It's too dangerous." When Joe finally left a back, the town seemed to be restored to peace. Of course, Joe is not an escape, but on both sides related to the government. A knight, a fist and even a pacifist can’t get a foothold, because what he said when he came here to change the violence in the town was: " I'm in the middle, and I can make a fortune here."
As a fistful of wealth, Qiao is inadequate in the whole plot. He has never stayed here for money. When an outsider enters the town, he feels the atmosphere of Xiao Sha, and what lies behind Xiao Sha In addition to the violent desires of Rojos who sell alcohol and Baxter who sells arms, ordinary people seem to have only an old man who opens a tavern, an old man who buys a coffin, and a bell ringer Juan, and the town lost The widow of a man, this is an abnormal demographic structure, and it is this abnormality that made Joe choose to stay. The old man in the tavern asked him to leave immediately, "Here, either get rich or die." There are only two destinies. Getting rich seems to point to the two factions of Lojos and Baxter, and death belongs to ordinary people. In a worthy town, Joe is here to die.
However, Joe said he was in the middle to make a fortune. He is not a bounty hunter, and he has no direct chance to make a fortune. Then his "fortune" refers to being a good marksman, to eliminate violence in the town. At first he was just passing by the town, or just rushing to get thirsty and want to drink a little water, but the opening scene surprised him: a child ran to the other side and got into the window, but didn’t want to be driven out, and even crossed with clubs, and the boy ran. Back in the house, a man walked out. He was the boy's father. In the end, the boy's father was also beaten. Joe saw a woman's face in the opposite window, and then the window was closed. Why did the boy enter the opposite house, and why was he kicked out and beaten? Who is the woman in the house? What is his relationship with the boy and the boy's father?
When he heard that the women here were all widows, Joe decided to stay here as a kind of existence in the middle, creating opportunities for "getting rich". A fistful of nowhere, a cowboy who does not know where and where, as an intruder, not only observes the town but also finds out the truth, he has actually become a participant. As Leone’s first western film, as a film suspected of plagiarizing Kurosawa Akira’s "Intentional Stick", Leone’s western environment is a kind of "remake" from the surface: when the feudal era of the East Turned into the West before the pioneering era, when the samurai turned into a western cowboy, when the sword turned into a pistol and a rifle, in fact Leone was obsessed with a kind of deconstruction: because one side is a wine merchant and the other is an arms dealer. As a middle ground, the meaning of "I'm in the middle" is to break the evenly matched balance structure. It is this kind of wiggling that has caused the multiple possible directions of the story-whether it is the later "The Good Night" or the last one. "The Good, the Bad and the Gold" creates structural instability in the entanglement between two bounty hunters and three bounty hunters, creating suspense in a variety of possible tensions.
"The Good Night" is two bounty hunters to deal with the common killer, "The Good, the Good and the Gold" separates the bounty in a three-way confrontation. These two structures are naturally unstable and instinctively possible, but in the " In "Red Dead Redemption", there is only one foreigner. How does this instability manifest itself, and how does this possibility come into play? That is the duality of "I'm in the middle": At first Joe joined Lojos's camp, and his power seemed to be on this side; then he discovered that Lojos's killer Raymond had used a conspiracy to kill Wei Xiao The soldiers in the town and robbed a large amount of gold; he designed to place two soldiers in military costumes in the cemetery, and then notified Baxter, and then informed Lochos that one side was the murderer and the other side was the official representative of the government. No matter whether it is to eliminate the incriminating evidence or obtain evidence, the two factions rushed to the cemetery. This is the first time they had a fire union; if this first time Joe was "in the middle" to weaken the strength of the two factions, then later Once used a trick for a kind of good, that is to rescue the Marisa family-that is, the boy and the father and the woman at the window who just entered the town, he pretended to be drunk, and rescued the prisoner in the hut. Marissa, then gave them money for the family and told them to leave. Raymond, who likes Marissa, found out that she was missing. He suspected that Baxter and his gang did it. So he carried out crazy revenge, using explosives, gasoline, and The bullet almost wiped out Baxter.
Joe used his own strategy to let the power of one side eliminate the power of the other side, which disintegrated the evenly matched balance structure, and also made "I am in the middle" no longer a factor of instability. Suspicion gradually became a kind of killing. "When the person holding the pistol encounters the one holding the rifle, the one holding the pistol will die." He quoted this Mexican proverb to warn Joe, and it was in the end that it evolved into Joe and Luo. The opposition of Jos's faction made this foreigner the most critical figure in dominating the destiny of the town, and he also stood on the other side of violence in the process of participating. In the confrontation between Bactus and Lochos, it seems that the real evil is on Lochos’s side. They designed to steal the army’s gold, Raymond occupied Marissa and destroyed the lives of a family, and they even used extinction. Destroyed Baxter’s forces in a human way: when almost all of Baxter’s men were shot, the Baxter and his son came out without guns. They surrendered to Lojos and Raymond to let the family leave. Small town, but Raymond killed them involuntarily, and finally Bacters’ wife came out in the fire. When she saw her husband and children die, she cursed them: "Murder, they didn’t bring a gun, you Hell!" Raymond's gun shot at her in the shout.
The complete extermination of the Buckets group is a symbol of the brutality of the Rojos group, especially Raymond. After losing the woman Marissa, they angered everything against Buckets, thus creating the massacre. There seems to be a question here. Why would the Rojos and his gang kill Bactus so easily this evening, so why did they maintain a close confrontation before? If it were not for Leon’s internal plot design negligence, then this arrangement of serving the plot and weakening the logic can only prove the view that when the two factions are evenly matched, they both abide by a universal rule, and only in When Raymond retaliated wildly, in the violent world, in the disaster of fire, in the tragedy of death, he was a heinous person who broke the rules, and this is exactly what Joe finally came out to shoot Raymond in the small The direct cause in the town.
In fact, there are no rules between the gangs, and this creates conditions for the "Funker" to show off in Western films. This is an uninhabited desert, this is the west filled with death, and this is a small town on the border. Regardless of whether it is the government or the law, the so-called rules are almost non-existent. It is because there are no rules that Raymond will kill, and because there are no rules, Joe will kill violence by himself. But establishing rules where there are no rules is the universal chivalry spirit in Leon’s heart: fairness, justice, bravery and wisdom. This spirit can change the pattern of "get rich or die" and eliminate "eat and drink," Then kill, the only thing you can do is the status quo. Rescue the Marisa family and become friends with the tavern owner is a manifestation of this universal humanitarianism.
The west provides a vast world, and the west writes the spirit of chivalry. In such an infinite possibility, Leone even deviated from the logic in the visual narrative: when the two factions rushed to the cemetery, how could they only leave behind a strange Joe? When Marissa disappeared, why did Raymond suspect Baxter did it? In the end, Joe used his own marksmanship to kill Raymond and the four of his men. What were the others doing? How could they not kill Joe with a cold gun? The tavernkeeper finally killed a killer who was hiding in the dark, but that was all, the others seemed to disappear at that moment. As the embodiment of a hero, Joe was hardly tested by death during the entire process. This cigar and dark green cloak seemed to be able to stay out of the matter forever, even if he was found and imprisoned by Raymond. Beat hard, he can also use his own ability to achieve the flip-10 minutes, Joe almost completed the final revenge in a desperate situation, his invulnerable armor became a symbol of the hero, when Raymond's bullets can no longer penetrate him With his body, he sent the wicked Raymond to a dead end in an immortal way: a confrontation between two people, two people loaded the bullet, two people shot at each other, and the comparison is always speed: in the shaking camera, that Mexican proverb It was also subverted: when a pistol meets a rifle, the party who is not righteous will die.
I am in the middle, not to make a fortune "for a few dollars"; I am in the middle, not the fear that "the one with the pistol will die"; I am in the middle, nor is it "only to kill to gain the respect of others"; I am in the middle, the gun It rang, and Leonne's heroic era really began.
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