The PC version of "Red Dead Redemption 2" has been online for more than a month, compared to many friends have been galloping in the vast western wilderness happy BANG! BANG! BANG!. Just as the so-called men use force and guns to create romance, this unique historical phenomenon of the American Western era can be described as the only choice for every man in the history of the 18th and 19th centuries to send chivalrous feelings (although the author estimates that if he really travels through the past, I am afraid that it is more likely to become the person who was dragged).
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So the American West that has been talked about for so long, the big prostitute who has played for so long... Cough cough... What is the real history of the American West? Let's take a look!
The American Western Era originated in the 18th-19th centuries as Operation Destiny, known to the wise Victoria 2 players as "Destiny Expansion". As the largest independent democracy in North America and a major importing country for immigrants, the United States has a clear destiny of "the continent that we have given to God to multiply the free development of all peoples every year." (from John O'Sullivan, July-August 1845 issue of Democratic Review magazine) began a mighty westward movement, successfully developing from 13 continents in North America to a great power through the Atlantic-Pacific through purchases, wars, annexations, and other means.
At the same time of expansion, through immigration laws, land decrees, etc., it successfully attracted a large number of low-level workers, proletariats, and new immigrants to march and settle in the west, and due to the lack of official strength in the new land, a large number of deserters, fugitives, and rebels also entered the region in a big way, gradually forming the characteristics of the American West era as we know it, and after the End of the Civil War, with the promulgation of the "Homestead Law", the demobilization of a large number of soldiers (local transfer robbers), the collision of colored people and radical whites, the famous criminal Billy The Kid, Jesse Lee, and so on. James is a figure of his time.
It is precisely for this reason that in the chaotic western era, households all hold guns, and going out with guns is the normal life of cowboys, and going out without a gun is simply like going out without clothes. It was not until the end of the 19th century (the era in which The Red Dead Redemption 2 game was played) that the Western era came to an end with the massive development of transportation technology and the gradual deepening of official power.
So the key to the western theme is actually very simple:
1. Western cowboys and pioneering spirit
2. A western wilderness with few people and beautiful natural scenery
3. Survival, fierce clashes between regional conservative forces and new immigrants, bandits and officials, whites and people of color
This is the essence of the American Western era! More words do not say, as my friend said, movies are the best way to learn, let's take a look at what good movies with western themes have been in recent years!
1. Django who was rescued
Release Date: May 12, 2013 (Chinese mainland)
Douban score: 8.7
Rotten Tomatoes Index: 87%
Popcorn Index: 91%
The film depicts the German bounty hunter Kim Schultz (Christoph Waltz) in 1858, two years before the Civil War, who buys django (Jamie Foxx), a slave from a slave trader, frees him and teaches him how to become a bounty hunter.
As a ghost talent director Quentin's three years of grinding a sword, this work won the 85th Academy Awards - Best Original Screenplay Award, Best Supporting Actor two awards, is a rare western theme of good movies in recent years. In addition, the author must mention that the later shots of the movie and the scenes of the game Breevestor Manor are really a strong kind of déjà vu Ayugi!
Movie stills
Game interface
2. The Eight Wicked
Release Date: December 7, 2015 (Chinese mainland)
Douban score: 8.5
Rotten Tomatoes Index: 75%
Popcorn Index: 76%
In the cold Wyoming Valley, a horse-drawn carriage carrying bounty hunter "Hanger" John Russ (Kurt Russell) and his $10,000 prey, Daisy Dormog (Jennifer Janifer Lee Jennifer Jason Leigh), pedals through the snow, and then... (Ten thousand words omitted here)... You think this is a Western, but this is actually a suspense film; you think this is a suspense film, but this is still a Western, life and death look down, do not obey, do not BB, dog belt! The director of this film... Quentin the Leper... That's right, or him! Familiar recipe, familiar taste, this is Quentin's 15-year new work "Eight Words"... Cough, no... "Eight Wicked Men"! What are you waiting for, don't you hurry to appreciate the beauty of the West?