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.
所谓的电影之神，指的敬畏心吧，而这份敬畏心之中，还带着深沉的爱。有点儿昭和紫玫瑰的意思。感觉用电影贩卖情怀，但是归根结底还是讲了个爱情故事。山田洋次91岁了啊，我们允许他怀念吧。
除了疫情部分太生硬，其他还挺好的，是山田洋次没错了
明明离成片只有一步之遥的副导演，真正开拍后却陷入自我怀疑自暴自弃
3.5 莫名觉得这部苏打有点萌。有些地方还挺感动。
30/8/2021 @ 英皇iSquare [summeriff]。算是近年山田洋次的失手之作吧。雖然好幾段有被感動到，但老實說年輕組和現代組兩段的割裂感太大了，而且真的談到電影有關的情節比想像中少。個人覺得尾段用自己方式去講Save the Cinema，可能才是山田洋次在經過後疫情時代最想拍的東西吧。
开头跟普通日本当代片一样烂 后面用来把剧情画面转到过去的那个桥接创想方法超赞 接着导演对演员演技不屑的话也深得我心
三星半。不是特别流畅的处理，剧本欠打磨，两条时间线的互文可以做得更好。但还是能为山田洋次镜头中展现出的真挚情感所打动。
2021北影节充满仪式感的结束。电影之神保佑导演，明年再见！
“And for all the ones who were lost…”（me）
3.5。电影就是一帧一帧单独看来有点无聊的画面、连在一起就有别样力量的东西。女儿读到“老婆、淑子、我的小淑子”我就哭了，好温情啊。片尾还致敬了因为疫情过世中途退出拍摄的志村健先生。电影人和爱电影人统一的梦想“在观影中死去”。
又臭又长。泽田和淑子或者泽田和电影，二者有其一能刻画出一点感情，都太容易打动人了。可惜啥都没有，几句感谢词突兀又不可信。最后甚至还在电影院大声聊天，哪个电影爱好者能看得了这个？
生命还如此漫长，说要放弃似乎还言之过早。生命却又如此短暂，耗尽一生也无法参透。在镜子面前确认着自己是否露出自然的笑容。“尽管要咬牙苦撑，也请你抬起头来吧！眼泪什么的，实在是不适合你呀。”不知从何处传来，那个亲切怀念的声音。
北川景子可真的是太好看了。漂亮又帅气。苏打的角色但凡换个人演都不会让人这么喜欢且容易原谅。
昨天刚好看了《倒数时刻》，今天就看到《电影之神》。两部都是在拍有才华的创作者，前者是失败失败失败然后坚持，后者是失败然后放弃。
关于电影，关于爱情，也关于人生，但这部电影始终给我一种什么都想要，但什么都是半途而废的感觉。反而更喜欢年轻时候的剧情，虽然年轻时候的故事的拍摄方法也不新鲜。
其实这剧台词正是电影的题眼所在，那些给差评的朋友们，应该想一想是，不是真的在用心感受一部电影所带给你的感情，还是说每一类型的电影都要用一种相对固定的范式去解读？见仁见智吧。这部电影的感动，起码真正热爱电影的人们一定会get
山田洋次作为大陆影迷的老朋友，近几年的新片几乎都被北、上两个电影节收录，如今回头再看，其创作力和导演能力的退步简直难以置信。《电影之神》里的山田洋次，简直就像是恶搞香港影史的王晶。只是前者依然走的是自己温情的那套东西。其实从某种意义上讲，本片就像是导演对自己的自嘲，男人暮年的一次春梦。耍老把戏并不是山田洋次导演能力减退的最直接体现，而是其在影片中对要探讨的话题的失序与混乱才是。倒叙回忆没能消解现今的人物问题，情感的困境也在结尾回归电影而变得暧昧不清，以及强行加入的疫情背景也没有任何实际意义。可以感觉山田洋次借《电影之神》有很多话想说，说说过去，聊聊现在，谈谈未来。只可惜这些想法也只能混乱的就在其脑海之中了。
不是山田洋次最好的作品，这是肯定的，但是如果带入一下90岁老导演的心思，了解一下松竹映画的历史，想想清水宏和小津安二郎，再看看《电影之神》里老一辈松竹电影人对于电影的尊敬与爱，谁不感动呢？乡直在失败的初次指导之后，一蹶不振直至老年，这样的设定正是所有创作者都会有的恐惧，死在电影里，把自己交还给栖息于胶片中的“电影之神“，这样的设定，也是所有创作电影的人的春梦，春梦，90岁再做，不晚。
还是山田洋次的老配方，时间和家人。经过时间沉淀而成感情真的很沉重，重到一点一滴的感谢都令人感动。
sōng zhú yìng huà 100周年纪念电影 y2的时候看完了xiǎo jīn ān’èr láng的所有zì zhuàn + rì jì +三本zhuān zhù 换来此刻真真正正哭死在电影院里😭😭 那个黄金时代 终究还是和《dōng jīng wù yu》最后的火车一样 消失再也不见
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