Masterpieces of the American Western

[Flying Over the Mountain] 1939 Directed by John Ford. Ford

[Flying Over the Mountain] is a masterpiece of the traditional Western, a masterpiece that has reached classicism and stylistic maturity, and is quite perfect. John Ford's "The Legend of the West" is a masterpiece of the traditional western. Ford combined the social legends, historical reenactments, psychological realities and traditional scene scheduling patterns of the Western.

The Spirit's entrance scene. The stagecoach heading for Rutgersburg is suddenly stopped by the sound of a doctor's gunshot, and the escaped prisoner Tiger Lingo appears in the wilderness, holding a whip in one hand and a rifle in the other, standing on the dirt road as if he were dominating a thousand miles of savage wilderness. The whole camera using a low angle, from the middle of the scene violently into the middle of the scene, so that his appearance is very powerful, highlighting the hero of the West's temperament: young and handsome, brave and good at fighting, in the barbarians have not been contaminated by civilization in the primitive wild charisma.