What is a revolution?
"Revolution is not a dinner party, an essay, or painting or embroidery. It can't be so elegant, so unhurried, polite, so gentle, courteous, and thrifty. Revolution is a riot, a violent action by one class to overthrow another."
When we shouted out this classic quotation, have you ever thought that the people who put forward the slogan are often those in power, but it is the people at the bottom who are really excited for this slogan and are willing to give their blood and lives.
The movie "Revolutionary Past" gives a more profound answer to the word "revolution". Revolution is when a bunch of scholars get tired of the existing political system, so these guys in suits gather around the table and say, "It's time for a change."
But who is really making the change? It's the bottom people! These scholars spend all day talking, talking, eating, and eating around the table. What about the poor at the bottom? They fought on the front lines, and in the end they all gave their lives for the revolution. The revolution was victorious, intellectuals became upstarts, and the people at the bottom all became cannon fodder.
Revolution is not a dinner party
Talking about Leone's movies, the first thing that makes people talk about is his "Red Dead Trilogy", followed by "The Past Trilogy". The most classic of the Once Upon a Time trilogy is Once Upon a Time in America, which is at the end of his series of classic films.
In the past few days, I have sorted out Leone's films. In addition to the classics praised by the public, I especially like his "Revolutionary Past" and "No Name Boy". Leone is said to have asked Spielberg which movie he liked, and Spielberg said half-jokingly, "No Name." "No Name Boy" has another detailed film review, so I won't discuss it here.
I summarize the narrative rules of "Revolutionary Past" as "learning mode", first form a team, and then the team fights. The team here is undoubtedly bandit Juan and bomb expert Sean, plus a secondary protagonist, the Doctor.
The movie starts with a pee, and after watching the whole film and turning over to watch the movie, we will find that this plot is very connotative, or it can be understood that the director will pour a hot piss on the word "revolution" next.
Juan appeared in a horse-drawn carriage. This scene first revealed the background of the film - the intensification of the conflict between the rich and the poor, and then the director designed a more grand appearance for another protagonist bomb expert, Sean, with booming explosions, landslides, The ground shook, and Sean emerged from the dust as a masked motorcyclist.
In order for the two to form a team, the director designed a common goal for them to "learn lessons" - the bank. Sean is going to the bank to save people, and Juan is going to rob the bank. Juan wanted Sean to help him rob the bank four times, but Sean did everything possible to shirk. When Sean arrived at Mesa Verde and knew that he was going to the bank to save people, he immediately took advantage of Juan.
At the same time, accompanied by Juan to Mesa Verde, another sub-protagonist - the doctor appears, he is the mastermind of the revolution.
They fought three battles. In the first battle, Juan became a hero in the bank robbery; in the second battle, in the ambush army, the doctor betrayed the revolution and became a bear; in the third battle, Sean blocked the train and died, but he could only be Silent sacrifice. In the end, only Juan survived, and he became the general.
irony of revolution
Let us summarize the ending of this revolution. The bandits became the heroes of the revolution, the leaders became the bears who betrayed the revolution, and those who really insisted on the revolution finally died silently. Such an ending strongly satirizes the meaning of the revolution itself.
The film was shot in the early 1970s, not long after the founding of New China, and the success of socialism inspired the people at the bottom of the world to make revolution. But behind these revolutions, how many poor people who have thrown their heads and shed their blood have been used by others, lost their homes and lives, and brought the entire country to a point of no return!
Zhanyi is mostly a dog slaughterer, and he is often a scholar with a negative heart. This sentence is explained very well. Why do we study? Is it just to be the leader who doesn't sacrifice, to take advantage of people who are illiterate and ignorant? Is it just to use culture to fool others into working for us?
Of course a great revolution requires sacrifice, but must the ignorant be sacrificed? Gotta let those who read the book for a few days take advantage of it?
I've always been puzzled by this question because I can only give a definite answer. And there is evil behind this answer. No matter how great the revolution is, the group of revolutionists behind it are actually a group of black-hearted people. The so-called revolution is nothing more than a name used by these scholars to set up a set for the poor.
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