west is desolate and vast, the loess is flying in the sky, and the hot sun is overhead. Three gunmen are waiting. Drops of water hit the hat drop by drop, time seems to pass very slowly, and waiting always makes people feel that time passes too slowly, especially when waiting for a duel.
Just when people were about to be tortured by waiting, the little train came into the station. Three cool gunmen fell to the ground, killing the very man they were waiting to kill.
The origin of the murderer was not clear until later in the story, and the length was very small, but the appearance of the murderer was very cool and shocking, just like the scene of Xiao Li Feidao in "The Passionate Swordsman Ruthless Sword". The appearance of the murderer is always accompanied by the harmonica he plays, so people call him the harmonica.
The whole film is not as crisp as a Hollywood movie, giving people a feeling of sleepiness integrated into the environment. But the atmosphere of the whole film is very well created. When it is fierce, it seems to be able to see the murderous aura behind the characters, and when it is soothing, it seems to be drowsy. The tension on the scene is hardly created by any combination of short shots, but is completely reflected by the state of the characters.
The Ranger is one of the characters that every young man aspires to be, but in reality the Ranger's past is so hard. In the West, water is very precious, and if your face water has only been used by three people before you, it can only be said that you are lucky today. And if you haven't become a little cowboy who is killed on the side of the road at any time, it can only be said that your life is big. In the West, not only washing one's face is a luxury, but even survival cannot be guaranteed. Here, survival is a problem and destruction is not.
After watching a lot of Western films like "Dancing With Wolves", and watching this "Once Upon a Time in the West", I just feel that it is a subversion of the original one that people yearn for. There are dreams, opportunities and wealth in the west, but more of them are the lives that have passed away quietly and the hopeless future.
I don't know if Gu Long has been influenced by this film. The whole film is an American version of Gu Long's martial arts novel. Gu Long's novel imitating Western movies is not just that, the story structure and the main characters of "Meteor·Butterfly·Sword" are all born out of the epic gangster film -- "The Godfather". Many novels in the middle period of Gulong love to appear elements such as wasteland, ancient roads, and lonely people.
Many Hong Kong films are very influenced by this film. For example, many states and life scenes of the characters in "Evil in the East" have the shadow of "Once Upon a Time in the West", and the dragon gate in "New Dragon Gate Inn" The shape of the inn is a western version of the American western hotel. The log building looks simple and primitive, just in line with the desolation around it.
Desolation has become a thing of the past, and the past has been like flying smoke. When the story of the West has become a thing of the past, we can only recall it with the movie. The events in the movies are the events of the West in our memory.
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