So far, in the field of realistic family ethics dramas, it seems that it must be a work of the level of "Breaking Bad" and "The Wind Lawyer", after all, there is a gold medal screenwriter Taylor Sheridan blessing
(Taylor's most famous works "Western Trilogy", "Border Killer", "To the Soup and the Fire", "Hunting Wind River Valley", the screenwriter and director grasped it single-handedly, all of which are Oscar finalists),
There is also the former Oscar double winner Kevin Costner starring
(Kevin is also a cowman, self-directed and self-directed in "Dances with Wolves", won two small gold men in 1991 for best picture and best director, and narrowly lost the battle for best actor to Jeremy Irons, the "iron uncle" who perfectly interpreted the exquisite but soul-twisting aristocrat.) The most famous character in recent years is Jonathan Kent, the human adoptive father of Superman Clark Kent in "Justice League Universe", and of course, invisibly bumps into Batman Bruce Wayne's adoptive father and housekeeper, Alfrett played by Uncle Iron. These two movie emperors are really a narrow road! ）
It brings together Wes Bentley, "Fox Sister" Kelly Reilly, mixed-race beauty Kelsey Zhou and other Mesozoic plus new generation film and television stars, using the most realistic methods to construct the process of today's oldest, coldest Midwestern white farmers and various forces representing the business empire or government minorities, fighting and circling over their own private land.
And in this process, brutality, wildness, killing, these elements of Western movies are all lacking, and their degree of realism and popularity, it is really not too much to say that this is the "strongest Western drama".
"Yellowstone" is set in Montana, USA, truly presenting a magnificent and wild western scenery; and the core of the series about civilization and barbarism, the conflict between the native race and the ant tribe, the individual and the family, with the "hardcore" cowboy culture, so that "Yellowstone" exudes the essence of westerns from the inside out.
It is a very pure and very good western drama. Whether it is the picture, the photography, the soundtrack, the character performance, the atmosphere, it is impeccable.
The pace of the story is slow, the narrative is steady and steady, but when showing the conflict, the explosiveness and explosiveness are quite quiet and flying, and the sense of speed and strength is as fast as thunder.
However, although commercial conquest is the main contradiction of the narrative, the core retains the hardcore style tenderness core of the old-fashioned western cowboy movie, and through the infinite tenderness mixed with the iron man Zhengzheng, the audience re-examines the values and family views of the old-fashioned whites.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > only the land and the family can not fail! </h1>
"Yellowstone", starting from a piece of land, tells about the family that survives on this land and the struggle for this land.
Kevin Coster plays John Dutton, the head of the Dutton family. He owns the largest ranch in the United States, The Yellowstone Dutton Farm.
The Dutton family relied on this farm, ran a livestock business for generations to accumulate wealth and other resources, and became the richest people in the area.
The symbol "Y" can be seen everywhere in the ranch, which is the symbol of the Dutton family. Not only the items, but all the family's livestock and employees have this symbol on their bodies, printed by reddish soldering irons.
His persistence made even his son have this mark.
John Dutton told his men, "It's not a trophy, it's a code of conduct." ”
Dutton Farms is not only vast in size, but also geographically important — adjacent to the ranch is a world-class national park, Yellowstone (which belongs to the U.S. government), Indian reservations (nominally leased by the U.S. government to develop gaming, tourism, and other basic industries that sustain Indians, but by nature, as we all know, I won't dwell on here), and land buyers (this piece, which is owned by a large conglomerate, and it is this part that has the most mixed water behind it). Because you have no idea which bull and snake god or Wall Street elite is standing behind these consortiums)
Under the impact of the economic tide of the new era, along with the development of surrounding cities, the value of nearby land has also risen.
This private territory of the Dutton family has become the best and fullest fat that all forces are coveting like hungry wolves.
At the same time, the most traditional animal husbandry production model requires a lot of natural resource energy consumption to support daily life, this is not, in order to grow good pasture grass in his own pasture, old John privately changed the flow of water, but the river here is to protect the animal cut throat trout spawning place, and they are the food of the national protected animal grizzly bear, and the ecological reproduction of the big grizzly bear is the core conservation and research topic of Yellowstone Park next door.
The scope of this matter is too large, the process is too long, and there are many interested parties involved, so naturally some people want to make a moth in it for seeking private interests.
This handle is being targeted by real estate developers, and these guys want to build houses here, speculate in real estate, and develop this place towards the town, and then expand into a new central city, or a satellite residential area in other cities...
Secondly, the chiefs of the Indians also made people uneasy.
With a high degree, he has two purposes:
One is to regain the places that once belonged to his ancestors (clear-eyed people know that such a moral oath is basically a high-sounding excuse in the mouths of politicians, and the other is that he wants to make hot money by doing casinos (with real estate developers to develop new tourist resorts, taking advantage of the geographical advantages of national parks, to develop a diversion or replacement of Las Vegas tourist attractions, which is estimated to be his real ambition).
But on the one hand, the old John's family occupied a territory larger than the territory he actually controlled, and on the other hand, they blocked the vast cattle at the door at every turn, affecting him to open the door to do business, so he had to knock out the others next to the bed!
Multiple forces, open strife and secret grabs, in the face of such a large interest body, everyone is open-minded - as long as it can be done, kidnapping, killing, arson, explosion can be!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > family, they are lions on the wasteland! </h1>
But how could the Dutton family be bullied. As an old-school white family that can bravely fight white wolves with bare hands, none of the Dutton family members are easy to mess with.
John Dutton, the head of the Dutton family, appears in the play as a pivotal figure who can influence the election of state legislators, just as his youngest son Case said of him - "He was very reasonable before he was provoked, and he was completely unreasonable after being provoked."
John Dutton knew the importance of having more children, after all, his family really had a lot of inheritance and troubles to inherit, and for this reason, before his wife died unexpectedly, he and she had three sons, a daughter.
Eldest son, Lee. John's right-hand man, and the only one who remained with him from beginning to end, ran the farm with his father.
Like his father, Li is a native of true cowboys, but he is not as good as his father in business operations, not good at strategizing and calculating people's hearts, so at the level of running a business, he is a typical reckless man.
Perhaps, he did not have the sensitivity of his father, because of his recklessness, he became the first funerary of land competition.
With the death of the eldest son, it angered everyone in the Dutton family. As the head of the family, the elder Dutton endured grief and declared that they would be enemies of all. With his proclamation, the members of the family began to gather and fight together for profit, for responsibility, for dignity, and for survival.
Second son, Jamie.
He was the least cowboy in the family. Born on a ranch, he worked as a lawyer.
In John's eyes, because of the influence of too much modern education, Jamie's personality has become hesitant, weak, and never dared to resist by various bullying, without the slightest cowboy style.
Even after experiencing various fiascoes, after returning to the family, although he tried to learn skills with the cowboys on the farm, he still didn't look like someone who could shine on the farm!
Daughter, Beth.
She is by far the fiercest presence in the family. Both smart and powerful, he was a real estate acquisition maniac before.
When she was attacking the city in the mall, she played with her feminine traits to the extreme- debauched behavior, fierce personality, while using a feminine soft posture to give and take, while using aggressive momentum to tit-for-tat - the first season began, the acquisition of the enemy, a man in his fifties, said that she was crying, this kind of thing she often did!
According to the old father's words, she can do evil!
When the family is in trouble, she is a sharp blade against foreign enemies and a ferocious and wild lion.
As long as she can achieve things, she can make good use of the rules, and she can also break the rules, and even play with the rules, and even human nature.
She can take a bath in the outdoor sink of the drinking horse, (naked), completely oblivious to the lustful eyes of the cowboys in the distance!
She can run into the wild wolves unarmed in the middle of the night, just to recreate the nightmare of being besieged by wolves after she lost her childhood, and then overcome the most primitive fear in her heart - but she is in the wrong direction, her most primitive fear is not the siege of wild wolves, but the guilt and powerlessness of seeing her mother die in an accident, and her own young helplessness accompanies her lifelong guilt and powerlessness;
Can hook up with her real estate developers to play around, and even in turn let the wife enjoy small fresh meat, so as to alienate the rival's family;
It can also tempt almost to use Rip to dedicate his feelings and even his body to maintaining the core figure of this father;
And when faced with the crisis of life and death, the blood and courage in her bones, even if she is beaten beyond recognition, she will never compromise, but more tough!
Corresponding to Bass is John's adopted son, Pu.
Because he was raised by the farm, he was fierce, strong, and loyal, and willing to do anything for old John.
Management in the open, murder in the dark; what is legal and illegal is carried out by him whenever there is a need;
In order for Keith to gain the respect of the cowboys, he even put aside his years of accumulated dignity and prestige in the cowboy group, and did not complain about losing the battle and sleeping in the shed!
However, old John and the newly rising Keith are different in their bones, so whether Rip's old-fashioned loyalty can go to the end in an unpredictable situation depends on the mood of the screenwriter.
Personally, I suspect that Rip is destined to be a tragic and tragic character, most likely to be thrown out as a victim and become a scapegoat for something when things are white-hot!
The youngest son, Keith.
As a former Marine, a staunch defender of Native American interests, and because of his wife Monica of Indian descent, he was estranged from his father for many years. He is by far the most solid family structure of this generation.
Although he has different positions, in his bones, like his father, Keith is a man who is loyal to love and loyal to his family. He broke with his father because of Monica, and if someone were to hurt his family, that person would have to pay the price.
So, in the second half of the second season, due to the kidnapping of the family's youngest member, Keith's son Tate, Keith returns to the family and becomes the next generation of leaders who are ready to inherit the farm.
Keith's rejection of the farm is also estimated to be afraid of the Dutton family's disposition that flows in his own blood. In the middle of the second season, in order to give the farm cowboy a blow, the planning and action of the cowboy bar to fight the enemy can be seen, he is actually the bull who is released to be the vanguard - born as a hegemon, as long as given time and space, he will be able to become king, and it is likely to bring new order to the land.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > characters, each performing his or her duties, each in its place! </h1>
The great thing about "Yellowstone" is that it does not hide the confrontation and struggle between people who are everywhere in daily life. (This is something that some big powers should learn.) In the barren and vast lands of the west, if everyone wants to survive, if they want to live at their best in this sparse place, they must adopt a totally offensive grabbing posture.
At this point, Keith's wife Monica proved from the opposite side a little bit - she was originally the most peaceful person in the family, but staying away from the family did not make the gentle and kind she get the peace she deserved, although you are a university professor with enough knowledge and a certain status, but others still discriminate against her mixed blood, buy a underwear is suspected of stealing;
She wants to teach her students to stay away from their phones and the spam messages on them, but the harder she tries to find out, the more she plays the piano to the cows; even though, she deliberately stays away from the Dutton family, but instead makes her son, Tate, the only heir of her family, lose the protection of the family and expose herself to the threat of outlaws...
To this end, Monica is constantly evolving, becoming mature and hard at the same time as reason and independence. She's not just learning to adapt to this time and place, she's also trying to maintain her stance and then give disrespectful opponents a resounding counterattack! As in the case of the student's frivolity and her wearing glasses like a star, The short shortcut uses his modern history point of view to teach him what is called adultery and what kind of people meet who are female stars!
Just like the constant transmutation of Monica's character in the previous plot, the Dutton family and even other characters in the plot, the screenwriter has given each character their own emotions and stories that are in line with their identity and personality, shaping it into a three-dimensional fullness and real visible.
Each of them, with their most appropriate posture, survive in their own plot and play their due brilliance!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > plot outlook:</h1>
Yellowstone is a heroic place. He attracts a steady stream of fame and fortune, and uses interests to constantly revise his face.
In this vanity fair, the forces of all sides are changing, and the same is the Dutton family, who always fight for the land and fight for the family.
Although it solved the previous round of real estate investors, this property is too tempting, attracting a steady stream of profit seekers. Therefore, the Dutton family will never slacken their chances and will also usher in new opponents in the third season.
In the previous season, after the kidnapping of his grandson and causing multiple murders, in order to calm the situation, John had to step down from his position as a livestock director to gain a balance of other forces. However, as the entry point of the Dutton family's politics, this position is too important, so the next successor must be his own.
The first candidate to succeed him is Keith, but although this child is family-centered, likes the life of nature, and is a good farm operator, but the means of play is a rookie, playing with those politicians in the political arena, can only be killed to sell money.
Although Beth has developed her skills in the mall and is a master at guessing people's hearts and minds, she is always a woman, and she has no interest in dealing with hypocritical politicians who have no substantial economic interests.
But at this point, in the face of other developers who are already waiting for opportunities like wolves, this responsibility can only fall on jamie, who is not very trusted.
Jamie is a typical silver pewter gun head in the eyes of Beth, but the advantage is that the successive fiascos have created his low posture, his own humility, flexibility, and a tough backstage behind him, Jamie as a front-desk mascot who negotiates with politicians, is still qualified.
As a result, Jamie, who has been on the decline this season, seems to be on the rise, whether he can get his father's approval or prove himself, whether he can navigate the pile of politicians who are smiling and giggling on the surface, Jamie will usher in a fundamental change.
But the question is, this cargo with a little selfish, with a little soft ear root problem, will not be tempted or plotted to become a betrayer of the family when meeting the old and spicy politicians, which is also a change possibility that has to be considered!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >why can the slow yellowstone become a god in the eyes of the audience? </h1>
In the spiritual core of "Yellowstone" is a realistic version of the Western cowboy movie. It is different from the romantic and flowing packaging of the West of the "Golden Age Denim", and he directly uses the game of commerce and reality to construct a new era, the real West that is constantly changing.
It has always been a confluence of "civilization" and "barbarism", an interpretation of the transformation of different environments and cultures into different stages of American culture.
In the new era, politicians who are rich in money and say that they want to protect traditions and restore their original way of life with state funds are trying to break the old private farm model with farm livestock as the pillar economy.
And John Sr. was adamantly opposed to this, he saw through these people! The real estate developers and politicians are liars, ostensibly for the better development of the place, but in fact they just want to replicate a civilized, prosperous eastern world here.
This gang does not care about this place at all, they only have interests in their eyes, and only hope that by changing here, sacrificing the existing mode of life, as a means for them to grab wealth, they will further make the gold coins in their pockets clang.
The Dutton family is like an old tradition, fighting against the seemingly new trend, in fact, they take life and survival as an excuse for their own wealth, a new generation of real estate tide. And this, on the contrary, is more in line with the spiritual core of the denim era against power.
The Dutton family, representing Yellowstone, represents the old-fashioned white spirit that looks a little old, guarding a tradition that has been passed down for countless years in this pristine and barbaric land. For the sake of this protection, they don't mind doing whatever it takes.
Therefore, in "Yellowstone", there is no absolute wrong and right, there is no absolute good and evil, only a scene of sorrow and joy staged for their own interests.
Even if it costs life to win, everything looks so cruel and tragic. It's like, in "Dances with Wolves", that period of knowing that he is going to die, still carrying out a rain of bullets, the final charge!
That kind of seeing death as a homecoming, that kind of righteousness awe-inspiring, let many people's blood boil, until death aftertaste!