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我承认在所有的爆米花电影中，我最喜欢的是西部片，更何况这不是爆米花。比起科幻魔幻的各种电火花飞舞，战争警匪的子弹倾泻，武侠古装的华丽招式，西部片的经典大战永远只有两个人站着，拔枪对射，一人倒地，干脆利落。上帝创造人类，柯尔特让人类平等。越老的西部片，越节省子弹，那时导演编剧还不会用特效无下限的取悦观众，所以经常整部片子89分钟都在酝酿情绪，隐忍不发，到最后一分钟才下定决心，拔枪怒射，快意恩仇，飘然而去。不像现在的爆米花套路，先让主角小打一架展示实力，再让反派大闹一场压制主角，主角寻访高人，取得杀器，最后大战，战胜邪恶，90分钟，观众3次小高潮，一次大高潮，每次中间只休息3分钟，插科打诨加小暧昧舒缓情绪，这很纵欲，很不健康好吗？更没节操的是现在居然有乒乒乓乓打两个小时反派把主角都干死等续集再来过的片子，让观众白看两小时的电火花预告片，拜托我也不是为了只看电火花的好吗？那时候群演的命还比较值钱，死一个群演至少要花几分钟的戏，还会交代一下身份给个表情，不像现在群演就像一群兔子一样一块石头就可以压死一堆除了尖叫什么都不会。

虽然没有规定一部片子可以让观众爽几次是最佳选择，但这部片子真的是为了最后的一分钟让观众压抑了好久。我们知道男主是高手，一抬手就可以把反派人物都解决，但他就是不干，酒吧斗殴用拳头打了整整10分钟，观众心里都在说快掏枪射啊，靠，枪都没带。我们也知道男主和女主有小暧昧，但他们就是忍下来了，为了家庭，道德和尊严忍下来了。换了现在的好莱坞编剧会怎样，男主先教训路边毛贼小试身手，然后和农夫小胜反派一次，反派找来高手教训农夫杀了男二，男主大战反派顺水推舟抱得美人，是的，男二必须死，这样观众代入男主的剧情才会爽。

为什么拧巴的戏就伟大了？因为真实。反派不是天生的坏人，他是早期的拓荒者，他习惯了那一套，他靠好勇斗狠生存了下来，他代表了蛮荒年代，还代表了落后生产力，是的，落后生产力，土地已经由政府分给了农民，林肯时代就已经这么做了，男二还提到，放牧的牛没有圈养的好，牛仔赶走了印第安人，农民赶走了牛仔，谁会取代农民？狼叔3给了答案，大资本家和转基因作物，也许以后会有转基因家畜。有很多西部片放牛的是正方，而吃下土地的大地主是反派，正义不在于你是那边而在于你行事的方式。伟大的作品会反映时代的变迁，至少会试图这样做。牛仔也不是随便掏枪的，两边都掏枪是决斗，一边掏枪是谋杀。为什么酒馆斗殴要用拳头打这么久？因为是规则，靠枪可以杀人，但得不到尊重。西部是狂野的，但也不是随便就拔枪，因为拔枪就像赌博中的allin，虽然很刺激，但如果你每次都allin，就算你是高手，只要输一次，就彻底结束了。这也是拳头存在的意义，大部分赌博都是小注，allin要讲机缘，所以就算反派一开始也想遵纪守法的。男主女主为什么不在一起，因为那是个大男子主义的时代，男人应该为了大义和友情放下儿女私情，所谓爱情，那时候就叫儿女私情，而且，女主虽然喜欢男主，但她喜欢的生活是定居而文明没有枪的生活。西部片中男主复责杀人或被杀，而女主，如果有女主的话，一般代表生存，文明和发展，他们虽然相爱，但格格不入，所以男主一般结尾都选择离去，若为自由故两者皆可抛。七蛟龙里尤伯连纳和麦克雷都选择了离去，只有boy留下了，因为男主代表的是自由。

人就是这么贱，压抑久了，三颗子弹的效果比三千颗子弹外加三吨炸弹还要爽，但现在的电影很少这样玩了，毕竟太高难度容易玩砸，还是道具子弹便宜。

因为狼叔的安利去看的。电影的世界太浩瀚，这样的好莱坞电影并不算出彩：用镜很像电视剧，色彩有些饱和过度，布景也很简单，但粗糙而直截了当的英雄主义还是挺燃的。西部片一直让我觉得和日本的武士电影很像：敌我双方剑拔弩张很久，隐忍再隐忍，相互拉锯，但真正的胜负往往只取决于一霎那……最后那一枪干净的收了尾，也向我们展示了Shane的实力所在。

但电影精华还在最后的道别上——带些悲情又无可奈何，既突出了时代变迁下的英雄心理，也映射了现实：A man has to be what he is，can't break the mould. I tried it and it didn't work for me. There's no living with a killing. There's no going back . Right or wrong， it's a brand， a brand sticks，everything is all right and there aren't any more guns in the valley.

Shane越走越远了，Joey在他身后放声呼喊：“shane，come back！”但Shane已经回不去了。如他自己所说，他尝试过和他们一样生活却失败了。因为每个人都有适合自己的生活方式，无法彻底改变。

这不就是狼叔的结局吗？这个世界似乎已经不需要金刚狼了，但他又无法顺应时代自我改变，只有负伤前行。然后，他做了能做的最后一件事，便离开了这个世界。但正是那一刻，他恢复了昔日的“面貌”，那一刻的他才是真正作为“金刚狼罗根”活着的……他为了顺应时代所做的种种改变全都是隐忍：英雄末路，他无法融入这个不需要英雄的世界。

狼叔的归宿是死亡，Shane的归宿是离开了这片再不会有枪声的山谷。本质却是一样的：在和平的时代，这样的英雄反而压抑，他们只适合活在人们的记忆里。

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).

其实看的时候感觉一般，看了几篇影片，才逐渐回味出来味道，不同于以往西部片塑造的牛仔形象，属于西部荒野的时代已经一去不复返了，肖恩所代表的西部牛仔与当下的文明时代格格不入，他曾经尝试着改变，但当他再次拿起枪的那一刻，曾经改变的努力都以失败告终，对影片结尾印象很深，祖儿不断的呼喊，而肖恩孤独向黑夜中走去，等待的他会是什么，其实就像黑夜一样，并不会有太多的光明！

就本片的叙事来讲，感觉还是节奏舒缓了些，情感的表达也比较含蓄，相比之后约翰.福特的《双龙屠虎》还是差了些，此外表达关于西部牛仔所代表的荒野时代和现代文明冲突的影片，还有约翰休斯敦的《夺命判官》，也是一部不错的影片！

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......