Form beauty

Lola 2022-04-19 09:02:12

Putting this movie to this day, I don't know how many audiences can bear such a slow pace. The general who was lost in the spider forest went back and forth countless times. After discovering the monster, he listened to a whole long section of lyrics before he sternly asked: Who is it? !
The staged indoor drama is another special point. Different from the simple sitcom, such staged drama seems to emphasize a sense of form. Later "Dog Town", "Mishima Yukio"... all have similar attempts. However, integrating Japanese Noh music into the film seems to label Japanese culture, with beautiful forms and a sense of ritual.
The achievement of this film is that it adapts a story familiar to Westerners and puts it on the Japanese label. I believe that the core of Shakespeare's plays are mostly human nature, fate, or ugliness, or evil, or kindness, or optimism... These human natures are common in the world. It's rare to be able to incorporate these into the context of the story.
Thinking of the crazy adaptations of "Hamlet" and "Home Spring and Autumn" in China...put on the clothes of martial arts, but only a skeleton.

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Extended Reading
  • Johnathon 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Macbeth is probably the most ghostly one of Shakespeare I've ever seen. This movie is more ghostly than Macbeth, and the ancient Japanese costumes have a natural advantage. Toshiro Mifune is a theatrical performance, with the same expression, gesture and dialogue. Yamada Isuzu is a Noh-style performance. Her face is like a mask of Noh, but she retains rich eyebrows and eyes. The range of movements is very small. In many scenes, she is half-squatting and half-kneeling. It's like it's being squeezed out of your throat. Several of their dialogues are very good-looking, and the scene of killing the king in the north hall is a classic that combines the strengths of movies, dramas, and Noh music. But then Isuzu didn't show up very much, and Mifune was a bit like blowing a beard and staring. Also, this sub-frame is picturesque, and several scenes of heavy fog are too magnificent.

  • Kelsie 2022-04-20 09:01:48

    The war scenes with almost no head-on confrontation are very different from Chaos. Although they are all adaptations of Shakespeare, it is obvious that this is a three-line report clip that is closer to the first scene of the scripted play and is limited to the Spider Nest Castle. It is quite interesting. The long shot of the spinning bamboo house predicted by the ghost goes in and out, and the house is gone. It has the realism flavor of the continuous space in the same scene that Bazin said (similarly also appeared in the banquet-miki ghost scene). The most comprehensive The main special effects are smoke and lightning and the heavy rain that brought the protagonist into the forest for the first time. The fog stretches back and forth not only to form the boundary of the prophecy paragraph, but also to the frame of the entire film. Inconsistency The first half is like a machine (and a bit like the protagonist's alter ego who bluntly speaks out what the protagonist is afraid to say) and the second half seems to be an inexplicable performance in order to forcefully insert Shakespeare's blood-washing scene as a whole. The existence of this lady is very strange (not like the tricky handling of fool), but the scene where she goes into the dark to get the wine and comes out of the dark is good. In the end, the special effect of the arrow in the neck of the protagonist is great, 360 degrees without dead ends

Throne of Blood quotes

  • Taketori Washizu: I am terribly drunk...

  • Old Ghost Woman: [singing] Men are vain and death is long, And pride dies first within the grave, For hair and nails are growing still, When face and fame are gone, Nothing in this world will save, Or measure up man's actions here, Nor in the next - for there is none, This life must end in fear, Only evil may maintain, An afterlife for those who will, Who love this world - who have no son, To whom ambition calls, Even so - this false fame falls, Death will reign - man dies in vain.