Dersu Uzala Quotes

  • Dersu Uzala: How can people live in a box?

  • Dersu Uzala: Fire is people. When fire angry, taiga burn for many days. Fire get angry, it frightening. Water get angry, it frightening. Wind get angry, it frightening. Fire, water, wind - three mighty people.

  • Dersu Uzala: You just like children. Have eyes but don't see. You try live in taiga, soon dead.

  • [first lines]

    Man in Horse-Drawn Cart: Looking for something?

    Arsenev: Yes, a grave.

  • Dersu Uzala: My home nowhere. Small hut in mountains where I can sleep. That my home.

  • Arsenev: They call me Arseniev. What about you?

    Dersu Uzala: Dersu Uzala.

  • Arsenev: [voiceover] He also had - a beautiful spirit. He considered the needs of a person he didn't know and likely would never meet.

  • Dersu Uzala: Sun is the most important people. This people die, everyone die.

  • Dersu Uzala: Look around. All is people.

  • [repeated line]

    Dersu Uzala: Captain.

  • Arsenev: Thank you, Dersu. Thank you. What would I have done without you?

    Dersu Uzala: Walk together, work together. No need to say thank you.

  • Arsenev: Man's measure is dwarfed by the vastness of nature.

  • Dersu Uzala: Something smell! People here!

    Arsenev: What people?

    Dersu Uzala: Wild boars.

  • Dersu Uzala: My nose sees better than eyes.

Extended Reading
  • Amy 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    Three and a half, vision is completely based on the environment, but the environment almost never exists without the characters. The depth of the movement, the occlusion of the foreground, the accurate scene change, a de-spectacular, realist narrative (several fixed shots in the whole world It has a subtle effect that surpasses Kurosawa's previous movies, especially the scene where Del Su is about to leave a friend's house). It's just that the theme is a bit empty, just like Kurosawa's later films.

  • Reva 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Kurosawa said: "I made this film to show a person who lives in nature, integrates with nature, becomes part of nature, and I think we can learn from this person, that is, from Del Su I can learn a lot from me.”