Since Hollywood dominated the global film market, the film divide has become stronger, and from the 1930s to the 1960s, it was the heyday of Westerns.
Also in this period, the Italian director Leone filmed his own imaginary American Western, shooting three in one go, namely "Red Dead Redemption", "Dusk Double Dart" and the final work "Golden Three Darts", and the last one was regarded as the pinnacle of Westerns, and also became the love of many men, and now can not show their majesty in the wilderness of the west, it is still okay to imagine.
In the film, the director puts the Western cowboy under the background of a classic era, that is, during the American Civil War, war is also a human war, and the good, bad, and evil embodied are so complex that the corresponding three darts are also good, bad, and evil.
Just as many people think that the Civil War is necessary, but the pain it brings also needs to be endured, war is never an easy topic, but in this movie it presents a comedic effect, the pinnacle of this Western, let us see the complexity of human nature in war.
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In 1930, the Western based on the best-selling novel Simalong became the first Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Since then, Western films such as "Guan Shan Feidu", "High Noon", "Heroic Seven Dragons" and other Westerns have been produced one after another, gaining market recognition and forming a unique Western style portrait in the process.
Thomas S. Shaz once described it this way: "A lonely Westerner rides a horse to an idyllic river valley and is accused by an anxious farmer of being a gunman employed by an anarchic rancher (Wilderness Man, 1953); the lone rider stops on the mountainside to watch the railroad workers blow up tunnels above him, and below him a group of bandits robbing a stagecoach (Desert Freaks, 1954); in the distance comes the sound of a train whistle, and a black snake-like train meanders through the vast space of the plain ("Desert Freaks", 1954); Double Tiger Slayer Dragon, 1962)".
In this classic description, Hollywood standardized Westerns: deserts, taverns, cowboys, gangsters, sheriffs, horses, revolvers, cacti, caravans, Indians.
Later, Italy also produced a similar western, because Italians loved to eat macaroni, known as noodle westerns. However, it does not have the romanticism of American Westerns and the external rhythm based on chase and action, and begins to pay attention to rendering the atmosphere and the description of the psychology of the characters, the representative character is director Leone, and the master of this American shame Western is "The Golden Three".
The film's origins are also a bit dramatic, and after the success of director Sergio Leone's previous game "Twilight Doubles", United American Decided to sign a contract with screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni to continue to brew the next film.
But it was just an idea, and everyone had no clue how to shoot it, and later Vincenzoni came up with the idea of letting the three protagonists find treasures from the American Civil War. As a history buff, Leone wanted to show the absurdity of the American Civil War through the story of the film, he said: "I know that 120,000 people died in the Confederate prison in Andersonville, but the federal military prison in the north is little known, and what you hear is always the shameful behavior of the defeated side, and the ugly deeds of the victorious side are secret." "
Finding who to shoot is another big question, and Leone's first choice is Clint Eastwood, although the latter earned $250,000 and 10% of the North American box office profit, Leone still has ideas, but still can't bear to sign. This choice proves the correctness of the director, and a perfect Italian Western is born gorgeously.
BBC4 commented: The immortal masterpiece of Selgio Leon. The Chicago Sun said: Leon brings his imagination to life on the big screen, and that's art.
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The Civil War was the only civil war in American history and the first major war after the Industrial Revolution, with the vast majority of the 3.5 million people involved in the war volunteering. The war killed 750,000 soldiers and disabled 400,000 soldiers, and associations estimate that the number of dead may be higher, as well as an unknown number of civilians.
Karl Marx said that the Civil War represented a great war unique in military history. The Civil War was of great, world historic, progressive and revolutionary significance.
Rise, the people suffer, die, the people suffer. This war has received many positive and positive reviews in American history, but war is always the most cruel for civilians, and Leone has narrowed the perspective and let the three Western cowboys enter this war, although the scene of the war is not reflected much, but the cruelty can be felt, if the war metaphor is a person, then it is full of contradictions, good and bad, or hidden in the heart of the evil will be revealed.
The atmosphere of war is not felt at the beginning of the film, and in the slow and tense prologue, the evil man is the first to appear, although he has been hunted down, he always escapes with good skills.
On the other side, the bad guy known as the Angel's Eye, who was entrusted to kill people but heard the story about the treasure, took the money of the slain person and still killed the other party, and then killed the entrusted person, for him, money is the first, the others are not needed, so he is pure bad, there is no bottom line of bad.
The last to shine is a good man, but is he a good man? The way for a gentleman to make money is to tie up the wanted evil man Du Ke to get a bounty again and again, and then save the evil man when he is sentenced to hanging, and each time he saves, it is interesting that in addition to the increase in the amount of the reward, the charges also increase automatically, and the time it takes longer than a sentence is pronounced, because these nonsense crimes are too long and must be read slowly to become successful.
When the amount of the wicked man's reward reaches 3,000 US dollars, the good man thinks that the value of the wicked man has come to an end, and the two sides do not have to cooperate anymore, and the result is to directly throw the wicked man in the desert, ride away on his horse, and face the curse of the wicked man, and the bad man can't help but sigh: After saving you so many times, you are still so ungrateful.
The key is that every time the good people send the bad people to get the bounty and save the people, is this salvation a salvation?
In the vast western desert, three characters are labeled one after another, and the evil and the bad are easy to understand, and there is indeed a reason for their labels, but what about the good people? He didn't look like a good guy.
Is it not as Zhou Xingchi lamented in "Nine Pin Sesame Officials" that being a good official is more "treacherous" than a corrupt official! So is this good guy not necessarily a pure good guy? Time will tell.
Ordinary movies generally tell a story in 90 minutes, while "The Golden Three" is almost 3 hours and 180 minutes, which is a double part of a regular movie, but the plot is very compact, and finally the three people start a treasure hunt around the buried gold coins, and in this trip, the war is taking place in this land, no matter how noble the excuse for the war, the people in the war can show their deepest human nature, is it good, is it bad or evil?
These three people seem to go only for the treasure, but inadvertently show their own human totem through war, so that we really understand what the background of each person is.
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In Western-style films, the audience's setting for the heroes in the play is usually to wander on the edge of morality and law, and the function of violence in it is to eliminate violence and be good, as to whether the killing is in accordance with the provisions of the law, it is secondary, as long as the audience recognizes and empathizes.
So, are the people of these three label attributes labeled wrong or are they really good, bad, and evil?
First, let's see where the bad guys are?
In addition to the slogan of the bad guys before the film to collect money to eliminate disasters for people, the smell of treasure is to kill all sides, which has proved his bottomlessness.
In many Westerns, even if the villain is bad, it is a blind side for women and children, after all, this is not what men should do, but in this movie, all this is not a problem for the bad guys, in order to track the whereabouts of the insider Bil Carson, to his prostitute lover, without any pity, any means can be used for the purpose.
In order to regularly break into the prisoner-of-war camps of the Confederate Army, the bad guys in the back are constantly scavenging for money, and on the other hand, they are also inquiring about the whereabouts of Bilkasen, and all kinds of means are used to the extreme, and the purpose is very clear: treasure.
The evil man can be said to play the role of a comedy treasure in this movie, most of the laughter comes from him, his evil lies in the rebellion against the rules, bad things are not less to do, at the same time, the eyes will be rewarded, in order to retaliate against the good people to throw him in the desert, all the way to follow the good people, ready to take revenge, but also let the good people taste the taste of being tortured.
War is sometimes full of drama, the wicked people torture people for fun, so they do not directly kill the good people, want to slowly torture each other, the result is that the good people have not been hanged but the two armies against the eyeless shells shot through the tavern floor slabs to let the good people escape.
The good guys continue their tricks of fake bounty, but once again they are approached by the wicked, this time almost tortured to death by the wicked in the desert, but also because of the war, they meet the pseudonym Bil Carson, the good guys know the specific grave where the treasure is buried, the wicked know the approximate location of the burial, this time the wicked immediately change their style, to save the good man who is about to be tortured to death.
In order to save the good people, even to pray to God, let people have a heart for the evil of the wicked, for the treasure also accidentally acted as an angel to save lives, in order to know the whereabouts of the treasure, constantly play the emotional card, but the good people are not deceived.
When the three people reunite, under severe torture, the evil person is forced to tell the bad guy the truth, and the result is that the bad man takes the good man to the treasure hunt, because the bad man knows that the good man will not say it even if he fights again, it is better to coerce the other party, but for the evil man, he can use torture, which is the difference between the bottom line of the good man and the bad man, because the good man has a bottom line, so he can not be afraid of violence, ignore his life, and be smarter at the same time. And the wicked want to continue to do evil, life preservation is the first, there are words to say that life preservation is important.
Not only do bad people treat two people differently, even the gun is directly handed over to the good guys, and they don't hold the other party to get the gun to kill themselves, because the bad guys know that the good guys still have a certain bottom line, will judge the situation, and will not play a game that is not sure.
But good people also know that working with evil people can still have the opportunity to flop, after all, the other party's head melon is not very smart, and there is a little bottom line, but with the bad guys, the other side said that as long as half of it is just talk, but it is not true, so in the end there is a chance for good people or evil people to cooperate, in the streets destroyed by the war, launched a classic counterattack war.
However, the bad guy knows the level of these two people joining forces, leaving the same long ago, his life is the most important, as for the others are all pawns.
In the second half of the film, when the good guys and the bad guys are searching for treasure and approaching their destination, they encounter the North and South armies fighting for an inconspicuous bridge, and the order has been issued, so the Captain of the North Army can only stay here, watching the two sides fight each other, but it does not feel any meaning.
At the suggestion of the captain, the good and the evil helped the captain before his death, blowing up the bridge, which was a little contribution to both sides of the war and reduced more unnecessary casualties.
As the captain said before he died: Doctor, would you please let me support it for a little longer? I'm waiting for good news.
What is war? Maybe war is a pointless fight for a humble goal, in a sense completely meaningless behavior, here is the meaning of a bridge, the director is here to let people think deeply about the value of war.
And the treasure hunting journey of these three people is a mismatch with the war, constantly entangled, the war has no meaning for the western cowboys, but it also inadvertently affects their fate, but also brings wealth, I have to say that it is an irony.
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Under the director's lens, the people of the three labels have completed the expression of their respective label attributes, there are absolute bad people, but there are no absolute good people and evil people, the complexity of human nature is not in the bad, but between good and evil, and for good people, bad people and evil people will believe that each other has a certain bottom line, and they are willing to cooperate with it, but these two people will not cooperate.
At the end of the film, the classic scene that fully embodies the spirit of the Western cowboy is reproduced, and the three have to decide the final ownership of the treasure through a duel.
This scene is almost stagnant under the director's lens, the camera constantly switches between the three people, focusing on the expression of the face, which is breathtaking, although the people watching are very nervous, but they can guess that the last people who shoot each other are estimated to be bad people and evil people, so the key role is how the good people choose.
Finally, the film once again labels everyone: bad people, evil people and good people.
The bad guy gets the end he deserves, the good guy leaves half the gold coin for the bad guy, and by the way plays the game of hanging again, the good guy is not necessarily the absolute good guy, relative to the bad guy and the bad guy, has his own bottom line.
The final question is: What kind of good person do you want to be?