While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.
感觉大本和司机拿错了剧本，这里的大本子感觉帅回了2000年，虽然我很喜欢司机，但是姑娘们对着司机的大长脸都称赞“英俊”有点太过分了。看到后面真的想让那两蠢货双双狗带，女主一人独美母仪天下就好了，事实上，当踩着猪粪浑身臭汗和血液的马特回到家里还要摆臭脸的时候，我已经开始想象女主毒杀亲夫的画面了……
这本就不是一个罗生门的故事 当然无需过多调度层面的视点变化 恰恰是相差无几的分镜、看似不甚高明的framing和表演层面体态动作的微小差别 将私人叙述归于社会议题 老雷采取的范式是critical realism而非interpretivism 期望抵达emancipation而非truth 所以他着墨于事件之外的历史背景 刻画父权社会对竞争、侵占的执念 却没有为任何男性角色辩护 惟有对女性苦难的共情是作者的政治表态：即便史册上冠冕堂皇的话语作何粉饰 在后Me Too时代 唯一可靠的信源是也只能是事件中的女性——那颗硬要与石头相碰的鸡蛋 那名失去观众的信任便再无他物的个体
角斗士+天国王朝。向天再借500年让老雷多拍几部中世纪题材的作品吧！有趣的是17年前天国王朝中的两位主角在本片中客串了一把 而女主角又让我想起了西西里的美丽传说中的玛莲娜 生而美丽就是女人的原罪呐。“微笑和好话比赤裸裸的威胁有用多了”玛格丽特是一个具有savvy/智慧的女人；“对男人来说权力是最重要的”母亲的教诲 中世纪与现代的家庭关系有啥不同？至少婆媳关系上看不出东西方有多大差异。本的台词太粗鄙 当看一部fuck不离口的中世纪题材作品总会有违和感。就全片来看，如果套用水浒传，这不就是林冲手刃陆谦的剧本吗，这一点东西是一致的：打我老婆和财产的主意就拿命来偿。从女性的角度能解读更多，但区区短评就不展开了。
在片中十四世纪那个时代，因为生产力落后，女性的社会地位极低，女人只是工具，贵族妇女也不例外。
11.2 剧本写的好，电影也拍的好，朱迪科默演的也好。女性觉醒，但是女主没有做任何不符合时代背景的事情。两位男性的视角恰到好处的展示了为何女人难以被听见。真的是非常的妙了。其实并不是很喜欢把这个片子比作罗生门，因为罗生门是多方在有意说谎，而这部片子三方陈述的都是自己心中的真相。前两个“真相”则更衬托了第三个真相的悲凉。
看著茱蒂·科默那張韻味別緻的臉蛋，不時會讓人出戲去回味“小變態”詭異又捉狹的表情，只怪她在《殺死伊芙》裡表演的太經典了。
剧本大失水准，“罗生门”式叙事的一次糟糕模仿
雷导这是不是照着网上的恶臭评论逐条拍出来的啊，网络果然带来了无数创作以抗争的动力。这个片子展示了在一个无知甚至谬论的世界中，人是没有基本尊严的，只有所谓的面子和拿面子维持的秩序。别看事情是14世纪的事，回望眼下，要扫除的谬论还是很多啊。我看着看着觉得这个片子再适合眼下中国不过了难道雷导来我们这里调研过？噢不，这个世界都是这个样子过去一段时间可能我们只是活在了幻想里。老美这类商业片越来越成熟了，拥抱中没有幸福，欢呼中没有喜悦，激昂中没有荣耀，当失败一方被吊起，而人潮转而向“上帝”认定的一方送上认可时，就像鲁迅说的，有的只是“吃人”二字。
4.0。1.《角斗士》+《末路狂花》，无论是哪一种视角讲述还原故事，在罗生门的叙事陷阱里，女性自始至终都是受害者，为女性决斗不是为还以清白，而是维护男性尊严。2.马特达蒙+大本+司机，真出戏。
这个电影可以帮助我们更好地理解西方历史中的决斗审判存在的合理性，在没有证据，又无法私了和解，必须审判出结果的时候，就交给武力解决，用生死的代价来逼迫心虚的一方退步，从第三方来说，公说公有理，不知道真相究竟如何，但总得有一个结果，这样的决斗还有娱乐性，以上帝的名义诞生英雄和唾骂羞辱的恶人，而女人从头到尾只是附属品，不知道当时有多少人真的相信是以上帝的名义，还是暗地里更诉求武力来保证自己的权益
就看最後決鬥，21世紀過了20年，還有這種水平的冷兵器對抗。白雪飄灑，點落在盔甲上的冷寒；眾目睽睽，兩個人物聚合到頂點的矛盾，緊張到窒息的肅殺之氣。匕首扎進皮肉那一聲嚦血，面上承受數次猛撞後的血綻肉破。
虽然是一个故事，但分了三个角度，完全不显得乏味，虽说是两个男人的决斗，但却是再说女性，可即便是夫妻也很难做到感同身受，每个人都是从自己的角度出发去考虑问题。
ps.如果感兴趣可以扩展阅读《不轨之举》
三段式有点冗长，但是真的，有毒的男性气质真的祸害前年
上帝造男造女，真相不重要。马特达蒙发型太丑了。
同一事件下不同视角的台词细微差别十分值得玩味。老雷巧妙地用一场中世纪最后决斗，谱写出一首女性主义哀歌。A child needs his mother, more than a mother needs to be right.
无法被证实的真相，每个人都是只看到自己选择看到的那一面，三个视角既相似又截然不同，细枝末节的处理非常棒。
what can I say, fuck the men （呜呜Jodie真是绝绝子TT为她加星（几个美国人的演法真是有点出戏~（婆婆是Dasha!!哈哈哈换个时空师徒手刃这些垃圾男
以决斗始，以决斗终。场上的两个男人披挂整齐、杀气腾腾、一本正经的捍卫着所谓荣誉和正义，其实他们只是目光短浅、粗鄙无能、卑劣下流的配角而已，真正的决斗，是女主和封建霸权、世俗偏见的战争。虽然她的丈夫在决斗场上获胜了，但是其实在他自己的决斗中，她没有赢。但是，历史会铭刻。老雷又一部古装片，虽然没有《天国王朝》那般的史诗感，但充满人性关怀，假以时日会成为佳作
雷老爷子太厉害了，能科幻能历史。三个所谓的真相，看到了男人物化女人，迷之自信的一脉相承，也看到了女人历来被物化，被作为男人的附属品的悲哀，即使丈夫为了妻子而决斗，却并不是为了妻子的清白，而是自尊心和体面。所有人，亦或是说所有男人，关心的只是决斗的精彩和男人的勇猛--无人关心真相是什么。女人却都默默知道却又只能默默承受。女性主义电影又一教科书式的作品，相信这部叫好不叫座的电影能够名垂青史。
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