Go to the west to train young people for the country

Hiram 2021-12-30 17:21:45

7.4

Compared to action movies, it is more like educational movies, and more like personal dramas than romance movies. The translation of "Two Tigers Slaying Dragons" is rather bad, but it makes sense. The core of the movie is to answer us "Who is the man who shot Libert Valence", just like the "Dark Knight" more than 40 years later. The core is to answer us "Who is that dark knight". Many meanings were narrated cleanly by a large monologue on the night when Mr. Peabody was drunk, "The courage can be bought in the tavern opposite, but is this our credit?" It's a pity, about the perspective of the story. The question is also here: How did Ranson Stodor, the storyteller, know about this drunkenness?

Obviously, as the ancestor of "The Dark Knight", this film discussed the so-called "what is a hero" as early as that time. Bruce Wayne hopes that Harvey Dante will be a role model for Gotham, and he is willing to exist as a "dark knight", and the only detective who knows it will not mention this. Times have changed, and the hero Gotham City needs is no longer someone who can only claim to "a tooth for a tooth" and "you can only protect yourself in the west". Law books replaced guns, just like railroads replaced horse-drawn carriages, Tom Deniffin fought for the land he lived in, even if new heroes replaced old heroes, and roses replaced cactus flowers. The newspaper workers crumpled the paper together, which means that the media helped the general public make a decision: This is the west, and the people don’t need to tell the truth, they just need legends.

Indeed, the creation of this paradox was extremely successful, otherwise the latecomers would not copy the similar structure. Everyone has worked hard for the future of this land, but one of them must face tragedy. The future that Lanson Star brings to this land seems extremely bright. It is similar to Paul Freire's literacy concept in the countryside. Teaching people to read is to make people participate in politics and understand their relationship with this country. But this future was actually mocked at the end of the movie. The election was extremely noisy, and several hammers were unable to silence the scene. Everyone could use sophistry and tricks. Riding a horse could also be on the stage. The quarrel made Lanson alone. Leave. In this way, Tom Deniffin looked like a foresee. He had already said that he had other plans and could not accept such a future on behalf of the citizens of the town.

But what lags far behind is that Libert Valence's villain character is really casual, and he died too lightly. It is questionable: Since Tom loves this land so much, and at the same time he can kill Valence so easily without any collateral consequences, wouldn't he have done so long ago? This is not the first time Valence has done evil. As a conservative straight male film, the heroine Hayley is unsurprisingly regarded as an appendage and transferred back and forth, just like Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight. Rachel can only belong to the "hero" of Gotham, and Hayley can only belong to the "person who shot Libert Valence". She exists as a symbol, so when Tom "transferred" Hailey's ownership to Lanson Stardow, he was transferring the power to become a hero in this small town; however, she must exist as a drama tool at the same time. The audience felt that what went wrong: Since she was always close to Lansen, why did she miss the cactus flowers when she returned home many years later?

It is a conservative elegy. It does not mean that conservative ideological machine movies are necessarily bad; the concept of male-centeredness is strong, nor is it that male-centered movies are necessarily bad; cowboys are limited by stereotypes, and it is not that they are flat characters. It must be bad; the main ideas are all spoken in lines, and it is still impossible to determine that the lines prohibit revealing the theme. But if all your heart words are spoken directly with your dirty mouth, what else are they precious. The best scene is when Tom Dunniffin returns to the cabin he prepared for his fiancée. The fire that obscures the sky burns everything down. It is silent enough that we can see a cowboy who is often tough. How vulnerable is behind the people. It is a pity that the problem with the perspective of the story is also here: how did Ranson Stodor, the story narrator, know about this arson?

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Extended Reading
  • Cory 2022-03-23 09:02:10

    "Young Mr. Lincoln" has affirmed the law as the law of American civilization. Six years ago, "The Searchers" already showed that he was not with me, and he could only go alone. The question is, what can he talk about at this point? ? "High Noon" 10 years ago also told early that the good and evil of the western world has become a thing of the past, and the western world that Ford imagined can not only use violence to overcome violence, but to prevent such a world from going on, the only way is to kill the worst and let go. The good that we insist on, and simply going back to black and white photography makes morality more ambiguous? Who says civilization means progress? Just like the train with thick black smoke entering the once simple village at the beginning, and looking at the world today, it is not someone who uses "civilization" as a weapon, savagery and rationality are different and need each other. The later Ford not only established the value and meaning of the old era with negation, but after the myth was invisible, we still need the myth to exist at a distance. The truth is not touching at all, and no one wants to know (this "God of Night" It's just very conservative, and Ford sees it more clearly than the latecomers). The best thing to see is that he questioned civilization and ego.

  • Jacklyn 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    [Original Sound] The translation was misleading, thinking it was a twilight hero Western, but it turned out to be the "main theme" of the handover of power with Qimin thinking. Both Ford and Wayne were Republicans, but the turn of the film (Ford was disabled and old at the time) also reflected a changing era. The traditional western begins to think about new categories and expressions, but the core of it remains (tom shoot, call your own). The title is singular, the translation really loses that desolation

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance quotes

  • Dutton Peabody: [Peabody has just been nominated as a delegate to statehood] No! No! No you don't! No! I... I'm a newspaperman, not a politician! No, politicians are my meat - I build 'em up and I tear 'em down but I wouldn't be one I couldn't be one - it'd destroy me... gimme a

    Tom Doniphon: Bar's closed.

    Dutton Peabody: Huh? Good people of Shinbone, I... I... I'm you conscience - I'm the still, small voice that thunders in the night. I'm your watchdog that howls against the wolves! I'm - I'm your father confessor! I... I... I'm... I'm... what else am I?

    Tom Doniphon: Town drunk?

    [uproarious laughter]

  • Maj. Cassius Starbuckle: What kind of lawyer is he? He takes the law into his own hands. He has blood on his hands. The mark of Cain is on this man.