The western film "Noon" tells the story of an old sheriff Wayne who is about to retire and usher in his newlywed life, but at noon on the day of his parting, he has to fight to the death with four bullies determined to take revenge. The sheriff is isolated and helpless. , Relying on personal strength to defeat the four young villains while standing alone. There are many characters in the film, right and wrong. The director uses a group-like expression method to portray the characters and reflect the real society. However, there are also typical focused characters in the huge group of group portraits. The whole film personally thinks that the main characters are divided into four. Sheriff Wayne is the embodiment of brave justice. Obviously, Sheriff Wayne is an absolutely positive image in both the character performance and the plot development. The director uses a lot of audio-visual language to express the character of the heroic characters layer by layer, such as choosing the tall and burly Cooper to play the role; the camera often shoots the characters slightly upward; when there are many people in the frame, Wayne always occupies the main space of the picture, in focus; and the lyrics of the background music are also expressed in Wayne's experience and mood. He embodies a hero's perseverance and courage, and an overwhelming sense of justice and responsibility, but a hero is destined to be lonely, and the individual and society show a strong contradiction. The sacrifice of the hero satirizes the hypocrisy of the society. However, at the end of the film, the hero is victorious, not only because he defeated the evil with a disparity, but also because of the ending of the beauty. The vicious and tyrannical villain leader Miller. Miller is a very interesting character in the whole film, he "appears" from the beginning of the film, but is really "present" two-thirds of the way through the film. It all started because Miller was about to be released, and he decided to launch a revenge killing. He appeared in people's conversations, in the terrifying and dangerous atmosphere of the planned spread, and when the time was approaching and the train was coming. He is the devil of this town, and everyone seems to be talking about it. He is undoubtedly a destroyer, representing the chaos of the old order. A kind and pure wife Amy. In the male-perspective westerns full of violence and conflict, female characters are in a weak and dependent position to a certain extent. Amy is the only soft-hearted part in the whole film. She is kind, beautiful, brave and loyal. In order to reflect her uniqueness, the director made Amy put on a white dress in her clothing, and she was dressed with a group of dark men. The character is in stark contrast to Helen, who always wears a black dress. In Western films, noble women represent the symbol of oriental civilization and are very symbolic characters, but I think in "Noon", women have increased the resistance of men, that is, shooting and killing this strong contrasting effect. plot arrangement. It is also an awakening manifestation of female power and consciousness. Most of Wayne's subordinates are silent and contradictory. There are two main reasons for choosing this inconspicuous subordinate among the many people in the town. The first is his social status. It is because of his inconspicuousness that he can represent most of the ordinary people at the bottom of the society. He does not have the authority and sanctity of a priest, nor the wisdom and prestige of a bureaucrat or a respected old man, nor is he like a woman who is far away from the wicked laundry and groceries. He can approach evil in person to a certain extent, but he cannot do serious and fatal damage to it, so he is more expressive than others. The second is his inner conflict and struggling situation, which also exists in many people, or it is also the embodiment of the main social contradiction. On the one hand, people are eager to actively rebuild the evil forces or the old chaos, and on the other hand, the numbness and cowardice of the people have become the silent majority.
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