This movie is so good that I would watch it every day. As you may have already noticed, Jimmy Stewart ranks alongside the one and only John Wayne as my favorite Western actor.
It’s hard to Westernize the opening scene, in which a group of howling madmen fire at a pillar that says “Welcome to the Bottleneck.”
quickly pushed into the city full These crazy people fired revolvers indiscriminately, got drunk, chased prostitutes through the mud, and stormed into the Last Chance Saloon.
The bartender says: “It’s getting monotonous.”
The real boss of the bottleneck
You never know what’s going to happen when these buzzards, warthogs, seducers, and murderers grab and slobber and dance. In this barbarity and chaos, deadly lawlessness, we meet Frenchie (Marlene Dietrich), a beautiful saloon singer dressed in frills and lace and feathers.
Only she had the power to appease those lunatics. Her Venusian energy is intoxicating to those who see her. She is controlling, sometimes scheming, ruthless, accessible, and her sexual outpourings are almost demonic. The mayor also kneels at her feet.
She’s dazzling and placating, so it’s pure scandal.
She looks feminine. she is bold She is the perfect counterexample to her sarcastic indictment of Western sexism, a belief backed only by emotion and personal insecurities.
As one character says, Frenchie “ genuine This is the bottleneck boss. ” Guess who keeps people from getting drunk and yelling.
Of course, her power over the rabid crowd is morally corrupting. It seems that she is the root cause of the bottleneck’s illegal murder. Her followers seem to act as one, reminiscent of the demons cast out by Jesus in Mark’s Gospel. “My name is Legion, because there are many of us.”
An unlikely savior
Who will save this earthly hell from sinking into literal hell? This town needs an unwavering moral force, a stronghold of masculine determination.
After murdering the town sheriff, the townspeople drunkenly appoint the town’s drunkard, Washington “Wash” Dimmesdale, to replace him. They laugh and laugh. They laugh even more when he announces that his first act as sheriff is to call in the tough sheriff. The drunken hacking voice becomes louder.
They laugh like devils, too corrupted by evil to find holiness, bent on reducing all good and order to a joke. Growling, creepy laughter, hideous, vile voices, like a hyena torturing a wounded antelope with its terrifying shrieks.
When the drunken town, played by the comedy’s leading man Charles Winninger, declares, “Destry rides again!”, he suddenly glares back with moral clarity.
This causes the crowd to go wild and the proud people, who do not realize that they are about to be civilized, laugh out loud. It was played by none other than Jimmy Stewart himself, posing as Thomas Jefferson “Tom” Destry, Jr.
Wash’s transformation from the town drunk to a righteous lawyer foreshadows the transformation of the entire town. Even more impressive is the masculinity of the timid Boris Callaghan, who would have been a cowboy if he hadn’t been bullied out of his pants. Destry lifts him up.
If you can save the lowest, lowest, last layer, anyone can. Even Frenchie. But salvation is preceded by a painful shedding of the old self.
It’s no wonder that The Desperate Rides Again was released in 1939, perhaps the most important year in Western history. Destry was Jimmy Stewart’s favorite character until he took on the iconic role as George Bailey in 1946. “Destry Ride Again” too adapted to radio [In1945[1945年に。
When Destry’s stagecoach arrives, it shows the townspeople’s distorted understanding of authority as they assume the angry passenger wearing a large hat is their man. Instead, a gentle gentleman in a bowler hat helps the angry man’s wife disembark with a parasol and a birdcage.
Destry’s polite and firm response to their threats was worth seeing For yourself.
That, friends, is a real man in a movie who can teach men to be better men. Finally, offer a moment of silence. As the townspeople experience their first taste of sobriety, the Jackal’s laughter finally stops.Although it is short, it foreshadows the beginning of Destry’s reign
Unlike Vulture, Destry can laugh at himself. But he doesn’t laugh like they do. He makes no heaving, panting, or slapping sounds. Instead, he smiles – and it’s kind and gentle. Everyone is so drunk and rotten that they don’t realize that his silence has already spread.
“In the myth, the opinion of the crowd is never open to criticism from a dissident minority,” wrote René Girard. “On the contrary, in many psalms the speaker is depicted as being chased by a crowd without any provocation.”
But the crowd sways. Even Peter was influenced by the crowd to deny Christ.
Frenchie is slipping. She feels her power disappearing. She doesn’t notice anyone except Destry. So she panics. Who would she be without her powers?
deeper authority
He abides and endures. Frenchy doubles down on his ruthlessness. But it shows. Her makeup gets smudged and her lingerie hangs.
Destry orders milk at the bar.
Wash is angry at Destry’s unwillingness to fight and demands to know what happened to him. Why did he give up his gun?
Destry replies that his father, a famous lawman who tamed Tombstone, was unable to prevent him from being shot in the back. He doesn’t believe in guns.
Wash yells in a panic. you Do you believe? “
With a slight change in demeanor and barely raising his voice, Destry said, “Law and order.”
“Without a gun”
Almost annoyed, “without them.”
To everyone’s surprise, Destry reveals himself to be a talented gunfighter.
Unlike Frenchy, Destry’s rules appeal to justice rather than domination. His approach is the only way to break the cycle of ever-increasing violence. His peaceful strength attracts them.
As Destry himself says, “I think this town will settle down pretty peacefully soon.”
