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.
没想到看到了目前今年华语最佳，心满意足了~
鬼舞shi无惨。为啥这里面人名都这么难念？tv6-10合集
7.0/10，《鬼灭之刃》第一季，浅草篇，TV版6-10集合集。
#南特三大洲#很奇特的观影经历，天马行空，却又落入实处，才气逼人的作品。陌生化，戏剧化，荒谬化的表达，但稍稍有点长，一度分神，也充斥着过多符号，信息量负载过大。
是不錯的 很多長鏡頭很喜歡 像舞台劇的官方攝影 時長太長了 @ filmothèque du quartier latin
应该是2021年看到的最愚蠢的故事了，无论是叙事还是情节都刷新了我的认知下限。而且我始终不太能接受一些说法的就是，一个男人，无论出于何者目的，能拿出性命一搏，这不就是舍生求义嘛，此外还有什么更高尚的东西吗
，名副其实的华语年度最佳！荒诞的艺术，光怪陆离的社会变迁，《霸王别姬》的隔空对唱，模糊舞台和荧幕的扑面而来的丁达尔效应，极具个人色彩和地方特色的空灵的戏梦版的表达，文革时期向右野蛮生长的水泥砖墙，屎里找蛆的桥段。细节和记忆点很多，非常大胆，导演也极具野心。在釜山电影节看的，179分钟，中途走了几个韩国人，亮灯后也有几个韩国人昏睡在座位上，只有我和个位数的同胞在诺大的影厅里鼓掌到人潮散去
历史的变幻复写。将戏剧埋进电影的血管里，让教科书上的史实伸展出三头六臂，成为新的客观性，“你在北京找到真理了吗？”但好像《痴》亦是如此（太久之前看的，也许会有差错），所以尽管我极其钟意导演的个人风格，但是在“自我重复”这一项上可能要标个问号。
A new old play 非常不错，拍摄手法和画面都很棒，全剧四川话也让我感觉十分亲切。每一个转折点都是一首判词来揭晓，新又新。很久没看华语片了，很惊喜。唯一觉得不足的是，太长了。
①豆瓣能不能打十星 ②邱炯炯下部片什么时候开始众筹
老雷还是老辣，借位运用了微妙的角色视角，从三个层面剖析真相，有别于《罗生门》天差地别对”真相“的诠释，《最后的决斗》用三个角色的故事，去叙说真相对于被害者，加害者，受害者之间的利益权衡。
只有品味了痛苦，才能珍视以前忽略的快乐；只有领略了平凡，才会收藏当初丢弃的幸福。
好电影 但是超过两小时的电影再好看都坐不住
（3.5/5）视听盛宴，镜头平行摇出画卷，惊艳的实验之作。耳目一新但内核和手法回归传统，大量指涉旧媒体（史诗，章回体和戏剧），节奏是反叙事，反诗的。召唤出一个默片时代的幽灵（梅里埃，德国表现主义的人工布景，身体喜剧）。一个愚人所讲的故事，充满着喧哗与躁动，没有意义，最终诉诸说书似的历史虚无主义的滚滚大江中。
混剪版本，没有增加任何新的元素，就是把TV版的做成一部动画，和其它合集版，没有啥区别
个人认为Chapter three, the truth based on Marguerite de Carrouges后久久不退幕的the truth有些多此一举，因为看完前两个chapters观众已经在期待女性视角了，the truth 有强烈指向性，叙事上已经站边了让观感受到了一点影响。剧本的设计代入了现代视角跟整体风格还是有点脱节，其余都很出色，我很愿意为票房出一份力。坦白讲……Adam Driver 就不属于主流审美中风流倜傥的长相，居然演了一个公认大帅哥，让人想笑，他明明是长得有点点奇怪又莫名性感啊！
上次见到邱导是两年前的事了，印象最深刻的是他是一个对自己塑造的角色有着敬畏感的人。
#SGIFF#风格绮丽，几组长镜头和诗歌的运用恰到好处，☯︎交替的转换也颇有创意，阴间也和阳间一样。时代浮沉下小人物的命运能被拍得如此魔幻现实，真的很难得。 如果说缺点的话，就是时长太久了，叙事的话用诗歌作为间隔也显得取巧了。
#7月纽约点映 看完最大的感想可能就是片中出现的一段引句了吧 新戏从来演旧事 周而复始话沧桑 还有一个词 就是魔幻 导演用了很多虚实之间的拍摄手法让观众一瞥人生如戏的极致感受 尤其是在观察电影当中每一段时间的海报绘画制作的变化时 都会觉得唏嘘不已 艺术到底是什么？是一份穷人的行当 一个表达政治意识的工具 还是一份责任/又或是艺术家的人生使命 每一段时间艺术在中国所具有的特殊含义 感觉导演都以极具张力的方式表达了出来
四星半。主线剧情类似于活着和霸王别姬，但是中间穿插的丰都冥界耳目一新。感受到导演强大的美术功底。全片以舞台为核心的布景更好地表现了 人生如戏，戏如人生 的概念，令人想起了 狗镇，但又极其中式意境美学特色。独成一派。唯一美中不足感觉主线的结尾略为意料之中。
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