原野奇侠1953

这竟然是一部1953年派拉蒙影业公司出品的西部牛仔片，1953年！真得竖个拇指！

片中处处洋溢着温情、温馨，没有沙漠风光，没有大批匪徒劫掠、杀戮，而是牧场、小溪、乡村聚会......片子节奏很慢，是需要慢慢品味的好片子。 是否我需要先介绍一下这部电影？因为有很多人包括我在内，有时候想看一部片子的时候先看一下评论，以确定是否值得花时间来看，那我先给过客们介绍一下大概：一个落寞的枪手肖恩路过斯塔雷特一家的农场，斯塔雷特邀请肖恩留在自己的农场帮忙，正欲退隐江湖、不知何去何从的肖恩留了下来。恰好雷克一伙为了吞并土地，骚扰斯塔雷特一家及村民，肖恩为了斯塔雷特一家(侠之大者，为国为民)又端起了枪，走向了未知的未来........

肖恩与女主人

我觉得男孩乔伊的演出很精彩，穿越山林，小河，在泥泞中奔跑，很象我们那一代人小的时候，无拘无束，在家里没有太多的关注，不象今天的小孩，家长投入了太多的关注，以致于他们每行一步都有家长的身影，家长不知道他们何时能长大，孩子也不知道自己什么时候能获得自由(跑题了）....

多么自然、淳朴、自由的孩子

男人之间的情大多是兄弟之情，也有为民族大义或共同目标而形成的感情（如韩国电影特工中两们男主的深厚情义）然而肖恩不知不觉间爱上了女主人玛莉安，这注定了肖恩归隐田园想法的失败，为了不打破他们平静的生活，肖恩只能选择离去，这也是一去成侠.......

肖恩与斯塔雷特（看上去多朴实的农民兄弟啊，这演技）

这时的西部人们已经在受法律约束，不能随便去杀人，但正当防卫和决斗不算在内。这时代的西部牛仔就如同明治维新后的日本武士一样，面临着新的选择，“每个人都有适合自己的生活，无法彻底改变”，每个人都要面对自己的生活，为了生存不得不做一些改变，然而，真的能让一个武士蜕变成农民吗？可以低眉顺眼，风骨如何能变？西部牛仔只有化为尘土，这个时代才会终结，肖恩也只有离去......

看《Logan》的时候就对电影里出现的两段《Shane》的台词印象十分深刻，后来才发现两部片子很多地方都是遥相呼应的。

“A man has to be what he is, Joey.Can’t break the mould.” “There's no living with a killing. There's no going back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand，a brand sticks. There's no going back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her, tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.”这两段台词放在狼叔身上也毫不违和，生活大抵是这样没有选择又无可奈何。

没有印第安人，没有沙漠和小镇街道，没有铁路，复仇的牛仔反而是反派，让观众理解反派，牛仔和美人只跳舞和握手而没有抱得美人归的西部片…属于牛仔的蛮荒时代和自耕农安居乐业时代的价值观冲突，老牛仔也很不易，对反派角色做出立体塑造的西部片…格局很大，对一个时代的怀念和追忆，同时也认清现实，不沉溺其中，承认长江后浪推前浪的规律，西部片更有深度了，结尾的呼唤颇令人动容…发乎情止乎礼的关系，小男孩他爸也有点戴礼言的感觉，似乎想把妻儿托付给肖恩…结尾还是套路，肖恩用十分暴力的方式把属于他的一类人的老牛仔们都杀了，美人也没抱到，负伤孤独离去，其实是一个悲情的人物，他的到来也让人感觉他很忧郁，这和《关山飞渡》那种潇洒牛仔的确不同…牛仔的离去却是生死未卜…小男孩的演员才30岁就去世了…摄影好，反派大叔随便一坐都是黄金分割点，不禁让我思考电影语言的变迁，是什么造就了现在的电影语言和经典时代的有这么大的割裂感呢，更感叹法国新浪潮的敢搞,有一个镜头很有意思，众人跳完舞之后，拍了一个小女孩也站着弄裙子的镜头，时间还不短，这个镜头不是叙事的，而是表达一种气氛的，在以叙事为主的经典好莱坞的影片里出现这个镜头让我感觉很奇怪,是不是电影语言变革的一个先声…感叹一句美国人还是不会人民战争啊，一帮居民看着窝囊死了，就拥着一个斯图特让他上，果然是孤胆英雄吗

SHANE, adapted from Jack Schaefer’s popular novel, is George Steven’s eulogy of a bygone civilization, the West as we know it. Its rub is pivoted around the hard-pressed homesteaders against the grasping prior trailblazers, who cannot brook the land they have been fighting for with sweat and blood, to be shared with peace-loving late comers. It all comes down to a gunslinger, our titular hero Shane (Ladd) to solve the problem, once and for all.

Unlike other trigger-happy cowpokes, Shane is perversely reluctant to shoot, apparently afflicted by some unexplained past trauma, he comes off as rather shell-shocked and doesn’t even brings his six-shooter with him when he goes to town, much to the bewilderment of a 10-year-old boy Joey Starrett (De Wilde), who puts Shane on a pedestal ever since his advent to the Starretts’ turf.

Hired by Joey’s father Joe (Heflin) to work in their land, Shane literally becomes another member of the nuclear family, heightened by a tangible mutual feeling between him and Joe’s wife Marian (Arthur), neither of them acts improperly, but there is chemistry simmering underneath their restrained formalities, which even Joe descries but he is also prudent enough to keep the green-eyed monster at bay.

The conflict escalates when their nemesis, the Ryker brothers, going out of their ways to scare and harass homesteaders off the land for their cattle business, hires a notorious gunfighter Jack Wilson (Palance), who viciously baits and dispatches anyone who is hot-headed enough to draw the gun, Frank Torrey (Cook Jr.) falls to his victim, however, during his funeral, the homesteaders are held together by Joe and decide to stand on their grounds, which prompts the Ryker brothers to set a trap to liquidate Joe, after a dusty brotherly brawl amid skittish horses and Marian’s screaming, it is Shane who takes Joe’s place to attend the treacherous invitation, with Joey secretively tailing behind to witness the final showdown, executed with a quick-fire fashion that invites pause and rewind. When the dust settles, a wounded (mortally or not, Stevens leaves us to guess) Shane chooses to leave as he confesses there is no place for a man who has blood on his hands, with Joey’s wail “Come back, Shane” resounds in the crescendo,

A stoical Alan Ladd is forever enshrined in Shane’s laconic, reserved persona and he is the unlikely hero excels in rough-and-tumble with a short stature, but the truth is, Van Heflin offers a more well-rounded performance as the ultimately congenial and sympathetic Joe, as for Jean Arthur, in her first color movie and celluloid swan song, hampered by an unflattering wig and over-airbrushed effort of the make-up team, she, at the very least, hangs tough through the familial dissension as a dyed-in-the-wool nay-sayer of the gun violence, that particularly rings a bell in today’s climate.

Receiving 6 Oscar nominations in toto (including BEST PICTURE, SCREENPLAY and DIRECTOR), one for the amazing tween actor Brandon De Wilde (who would sadly perish in a car accident at an age of 30), who benefits from the fact that the meat of the story takes place from his idolized standpoint, persuasively visualizes a wide-eyed boy’s vicarious thrills and spills without becoming overtly cutesy or annoying, too many bratty kids in real life already, no one needs to see them throw a hissy fit on the big screen. Also Jack Palance cops a back-to-back Oscar nomination after his breakthrough in David Miller’s SUDDEN FEAR (1952), brimful of vice and danger, his villainous turn is a real spine-tingler.

Equipped with a divinely colorful Technicolor to render a beauteous natural landscape, SHANE judiciously deviates from the mainstream Western with its prescience of its westering future, yet proposes an auspicious prospect on the horizon of the pending modern age, while those who are passé get a melancholic solace that at any rate, some good deeds are done, a few good seeds are sowed and some bad apples are annihilated. Lastly, one advise, dialing down the volume can save yourself from the assault of Victor Young’s blaring, overblown aural accompaniment, which aids our appreciation of George Stevens’ deathless classic of a defiant hero named SHANE.

referential entries: George Stevens’ GIANT (1956, 8.3/10), Fred Zinnermann’s HIGH NOON (1952, 8.0/10).

原野奇侠：

1.只有在一个纪念英雄的国度里，才会有英雄。（美国是一个纪念英雄的国度，从华盛顿到林肯）

如果是英雄迟暮，可以想到《老爷车》，《老无所依》

2.这个开头，被后来的《无耻混蛋》用了。

3.酒吧是很有烟火味的地方，因为有酒，荷尔蒙，无耻混蛋后来一场重要的戏也在酒吧中，还要《海贼王》中的贝拉美，都源于此。【“喝这个吧！”将酒泼在身上，贝拉美用过一样的操作。】

4.烂门槛里看人

5.带朋友出头，追风赶月的那一段当是本片最出彩的地方。

6.“我要走了，人要做回真我，不能勉强作改变。”【英雄在完成之后，就要转身离去，像是《西部往事》】

7.“一切无恙，山谷从此就会太平。”【“这里将是一个被叫做甜水的美丽小镇。”】

发生在阿拉巴马，严格来说不算个西部故事，有关于西部的那些主题，土地与人权，钉子户搬迁，荒野中来的人，奋斗和建设家园，却具有独特性，不像一半的故事具有传奇色彩，只是平凡的农民斗地主，人人都被潜在的危险所威胁却少有人真正去做法外之徒，最大的动作场面是酒馆斗殴；也不像另一半那样具有真实性，一个第四者闯入三口之家然而什么也没发生，丈夫开心看着妻子和别人眉来眼去，孩子眼中的世界太高大因他没见过真的西部，甚至还有少许歧视意味，在美国少数人口最多也是种族歧视最为严重的几个州之一，全片连一个黑人或者印第安人都没出现，有钱人看不起穷苦人，南方农场主大肆叫嚣着要Yankees滚开。最后获得奥斯卡提名，和金尼曼《乱世忠魂》相比可谓完败。