American Westerns look like they have a lot of unifying things, like similar towns. In the middle of the wilderness, dozens or even a few houses can be called towns, and it is interesting to think about. I don't know much about the history of the great development of the American West, so naturally its set is serious.
The villagers came to the town
It doesn't matter if the set is almost there, people must be serious, and the 1960 version of "Heroic Seven Dragons" is serious. This film also has another translation of the name "Seven Heroes Dang Kouzhi", seeing this title, you can basically infer the plot of this film, yes, in one sentence, this is a story of seven people eliminating a group of bandits. It is said that the remake is Japan's "Seven Samurai", I watched it, and the evaluation was extremely high, but I felt that the pace was too slow. In 2016, Li Bingxian's version of "Heroic Seven Dragons" was filmed very well, but the plot and spirit were inferior.
Li Bingxian in 2016's "Heroic Seven Dragons"
First of all, we have to admit some of the shortcomings of this film. For example, the motivations of the seven gunmen are not as thorough as everyone is said; the acting skills of some of the leading actors can really make people laugh childishly from today's point of view.
In a village near mexico in the western United States, farmers struggle to make ends meet mainly by farming. But what was even more difficult was that the village was regularly looted by bandits led by caraboo, the leader of the bandits, and in addition to leaving them with subsistence items, valuable things, even chicken and duck food and the like, were looted.
Villagers search the town for the gunman
They have to resist, do not resist, and in the end it is a dead end.
Well, three Mexican farmers hit the road to a town in the United States. When they arrived, something was happening in the town. An Indian who died on the road had no one to collect the body, and a certain merchant could not see it, and paid the people in the town to help bury it. But the town's cowboys were not allowed to bury the Indians here. The protagonist appears at this time, a gunman named Chris, who insists on driving the hearse to the cemetery, and another passing gunman, Macbin, also helps in the car. Both of them were masters of extraordinary skill, snapping two shots, hitting the other two people instantly lost their combat effectiveness, the town's cowboys naturally could not stop it, and the body was buried smoothly.
Seven musketeers
Three Mexican farmers saw this and knew their chance had come. Go to Chris's room at night and ask him to help deal with the Caraboo bandits.
Chris listened to the farmer's description, perhaps touching his inner pursuit of chivalry, he agreed to help, and released the wind, inviting the helper to go with him. His old acquaintance, Harry, shows up and asks to go with him, arguing that the robbers have repeatedly robbed the village, where there must be valuable things, such as gold mines, jewelry, and so on. Harry was unfortunately killed in the later confrontation, and before dying, he repeatedly asked Chris if there was anything valuable, because he did not want to die worthless, Chris lied to him, there was seventy thousand yuan worth of gold in the village, and Harry really smiled.
He killed the robbers for the treasure
McPin, who terrorized the cowboys during the day, got a job at the grocery store, but he agreed to go for the farmer's modest $20 pay.
There was a young cowboy who saw Chris burying the body and was very admiring, and he wanted to go along.
In addition to these four people, there is also the best Blake, who uses knives and guns; Lee, who is now chopping wood and living a stable life; gentleman dressed as a gentleman, who used to be a master, but whose skills are regressing.
More than forty robbers came, and because of their preparations, seven gunmen organized peasants to fight back, killing more than a dozen robbers, and the remaining bandits held their heads and scurried around.
Gunners leader Chris and young gunners
The bandits did not retreat, and the peasants were under pressure and divided into the main war faction and the surrender faction. When the seven men went to find the bandits and returned to the village, the village chief asked Carabeus to ambush him in the village and hand over the gunman's weapons.
Sending the seven men out of the village and returning their guns, Carabeus thought everything was fine, but the gunmen killed a horse gun. The most intense gun battle in the whole film began, the two sides came and went, the gun battle picture as a whole was very compact, but the death of the gentleman gunman, the actor's performance is really the death of the wall, good fall. Therefore, simply thinking that the actors of the older generation are superb in acting skills is also a self-deceptive idea.
The cowardice of the village chief killed many people
In a shootout, four of the seven men were killed and all the bandits were killed. Who wins? The elders said that the peasants had won, and indeed, the peasants could still live here and maintain their homes, day after day. And the gunmen, they're leaving.
Thanks to the screenwriter, when the Mexican girl was rubbing the corn while watching the cowboy leave in tears, the young cowboy returned to stay on the horse, and I saw that the girl smiled!
The young gunman remained in the village because of her
The set, the cinematography, the actors, and the compactness of the story all have something worth correcting. Considering that it was 1960, we didn't have to be demanding. In short, the story is very bad, the people are good, and what is especially rare is that the values are in line with our belief that justice does not die and will win.