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Wuxia films are a powerful genre in the Chinese film industry, but in recent years, it is difficult to say that masterpieces are difficult to find, and even the number of martial arts films made is countless. Relatively speaking, only "Sword Rain", "Embroidered Spring Knife", "Master" are very good, including "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Green Hell Sword", purely from the perspective of martial arts, it is not bad, but more people take Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as an analogy, which makes Yuan Heping unbearable.
The story in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of the Green Hell" is very complete and full of feelings, and the actors in the film even have distinct personalities even in supporting roles, not to mention excellent pictures and actions, at least this is not a shoddy work, Yuan Heping did put in his heart. However, neither he nor the film received the ratings they deserved, which is not fair. Yuan Heping originally wanted to borrow the power of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but he did not know that he had completely bet on the wrong treasure, not only failed to borrow the power, but was dragged down and was wronged alive.
There are martial arts films in Chinese and Westerns in Hollywood. Once they were all in the limelight, the results are now all degraded. There is an interesting phenomenon that there are not many martial arts films and not many Westerns at present, most of which are the works of new directors. Lu Yang and "Embroidered Spring Knife", Su Zhaobin and "Sword Rain", UrShan and "Sword Laughter", Xu Haofeng and "The Trail of Wu Kou", Wu Zhenyu and "Chasing Shadows", are basically debut works, and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Sword of qing hao" is also a new work by Yuan Heping for many years. The same is true of Hollywood Westerns, and the "Western Slow Tone", "Prisoner of War Bones", and "Sending Home" that have appeared in recent years are all debut-level works. These works, whether it is martial arts films or western films, have a commonality, are full of feelings, probably the directors grew up by the influence of martial arts films or Westerns too much, when they first have the opportunity to direct, they can't wait to pour out the feelings and ideas accumulated in their hearts for many years, almost all of them are paying tribute to their youth.
Big directors are different, such as Chen Kaige in "Taoist Down the Mountain", Xu Ke in "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" and "Di Renjie" series, Quentin Tarantino in "Eight Wicked Men" and Alessandro González Iñárritu in "The Revenant", all of which are ambitious works and want to say more.
Basically all of the above films have been written, all are point-to-point disassembly, and they have not been put together. The above is a summary. Today, I want to talk about westerns, the target object is "Tomahawk Bone", an obscure and quite distinctive Western.
2015 was a year of unexpected surprises for Westerns. There are many films popping up at once, but it seems to be only a small probability event, which has nothing to do with the revival of Westerns. Niche films include "Western Slow Key" and "Tomahawk Bone", popular "Eight Wicked Men" and "Wilderness Hunter", and the western elements are rich in "The Martian", "Mad Max: Wild Road", "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", and the birth creates an illusion of the rise of Westerns.
The obscurity of "Tomahawk Bone" is related to the above environment, because the audience has too much choice and cannot live in a strange way, so they have to accept being left out. The same is true of Western Slow. It's also interesting that these two films appear at the same time, one soothing lyrical, one rough and manic, telling both ends of the Western. For "Western Slow Tone", you can refer to "The Law Shark Wearing Autumn Pants, That's So Big".
Back to the point. "Tomahawk Bone", whether it is investment or cass, is not outstanding, and there is no famous producer escort, it is not easy to become popular. The combination of Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, and Richard Jenkins is not bad for veteran fans to know, but they are not popular and lack enough popularity. However, "Tomahawk Bone" has done a very good job compared to those shoddy money-making works. For audiences who like Westerns or historical films, it is worth watching.
"Tomahawk Bone" presents a bit like Old Man Toki's "Unforgivable", or Kevin Costner's "Heaven and Earth Infinite", all telling the final story of the West. However, "Unforgivable" belongs to the model of feelings and stories, and finally won the Oscar for best picture, "Heaven and Earth Unlimited" and "Tomahawk Bone" are more emotional than the story, and the finished film is obvious after "Unforgivable", which is easily compared. This is the reason why it can't be a business card.
"Unforgivable" tells the story of an old cowboy who has not been very pure in the era of cowboys, who has retired for many years and has had to re-emerge from the jianghu, and after doing a beautiful shot, he washes his hands and retreats again. The whole film has a strong sense of tribute, which is a summary and a collection of traditional Westerns. "Heaven and Earth Unlimited" tells the story of free-grazing cowboys who make the last powerless resistance to the government before they are forced to abandon their herding life in the face of government oppression. "Tomahawk Bone" tells the story of the white people who have settled in the west, firing the last shot at the remaining primitive culture, witnessing the abrupt decline of primitive civilization.
The title of "Tomahawk Bone" is "bone tombahawk", of which tombahawk originally meant indian tomahawk, mainly used for close combat or throwing, and the front plus a bone, that is, the meaning of bone, together "bone tombahawk", can be translated as "bone tombahawk", and translated as "tomahawk bone" is really inexplicable, extremely difficult to understand.
Recently released in China, "Wilderness Hunter" mainly tells the survival and revenge story of the western hunter played by Xiao Li, accompanied by the backlog of white people on the living environment of Indians. If you enlarge this background of "The Revenant", you can roughly outline the appearance of "Tomahawk Bone". In Tomahawk Bones, a primitive Indian tribe that still eats human flesh and wears no clothes clashes with the surrounding white settled towns, and the end result is that the indian tribe is slaughtered and the entire tribe is extinct.
At the beginning of the story, two rogue robbers, after killing several travelers, mistakenly entered the sacrificial field of this cannibal Indian tribe and desecrated the religion of the people. So the ambushing Indians killed one of them, and the other fled to a nearby town, and the Indians did not give up their encirclement and suppression of him, and chased after him. The escaped guy was resting in the town bar when the town sheriff arrived with the old auxiliary policeman. Guessing that this guy was not a good man, the sheriff wanted to take him to the police station for questioning, and then during the arrest, he shot and injured the guy and took him to the police station. Injured people deserve treatment, even suspects. So the sheriff asked a strong man in the town to ask the town's female doctor to come and treat the rogue who had escaped. Night fell, and both the sheriff and the old auxiliary policeman were off work, but the rogue's injuries needed to be further observed, and the female doctor had to stay and wait, so the sheriff sent another remaining police officer to accompany him, and then he went home. As a result, early the next morning, a groom in the town was killed, and the female doctor, the rogue suspect, and the police officer all disappeared. The sheriff judged that the Indian tribe had done it, so he decided to go to the rescue. Subsequently, a squad of four old, sick and disabled women, consisting of the sheriff, the old auxiliary police officer, the husband of the female doctor (he was injured and only one leg could move), and the strong man (who went to help the female doctor) was organized and brought enough ammunition to the rescue.
The rest of the story is the rescue process. You will see the process of this squad of the old, the sick and the disabled against the entire Indian tribe, although the number of this tribe is much larger than the squad, but the process is basically a process of slaughter. Of course, the process will have twists and turns, but the results all point to one. Moreover, in this film, the appearance of the Indians is blurred, and the squad led by the sheriff faces an opponent without villain charm, and the biggest enemy is more like a natural environment.
Most sadly, the Indian tribe was a cannibal who used a powerful throwing tomahawk. However, before modern civilization, the tomahawk was almost vulnerable to the musket, had no advantage at all, and was almost crushed, and finally the whole clan was slaughtered, and the genealogy of a civilization completely disappeared.
When people are now calling for the diversity of civilizations, watching this film, they will feel that it is too absurd. However, the film is not shot from a sympathetic Indian point of view, but from a very calm point of view, with the massacre squad's actions at the heart of the story. It shows the collective and individual behavior of the western pioneers of that era, and narrates the common living conditions of western films, which is also the charm and feeling of the original Westerns. But what really makes sense in the film is precisely the conflict between the primitive civilization of The Indians and the modern civilization represented by the whites. The horrific cannibalism has been habitually felt to be barbaric, and the slaughter of barbarism by civilization seems to be acceptable. But tigers and sharks can also be very ferocious cannibals, but we still don't want them to go extinct. There may be other ways to remedy it, or to convert it, but there is none.
The Indian tomahawk still exists in modern society, and has even been excavated as a kind of sports, to see who can throw far, to see who can throw accurately. The role of this tomahawk, which was once used to kill people and even split the human body for carnivorous, was ignored. Leave its shape and take its roots. In fact, it is impossible to say whether this is good or bad, in the face of history, there is only sighing.
The most clear places in "Tomahawk Bone" can not be said too clearly, and the less important details are hyped up, which is not enough to train, and it is also the main reason for failure. But in any case, it must be denied that this is a very serious Western, neat and tidy, and worth watching.
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