"Shadow Warrior" was released last year, and "Shadow" directed by Zhang Yimou is said to be a tribute to the film directed by Akira Kurosawa. The so-called tribute is nothing more than the plagiarism and imitation of the concept, which is disappointing after all. Like Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai", the 2016 American movie "The Seven Dragons of Bravery", made by a black director, invited the big star Danze Washington, a live Western film, copied a story roughly, and made it well. It is not worth mentioning. Compared with the original "Seven Samurai", it is absolutely different, and there are too many gaps. Zhang Yimou's "Shadow" was also inspired, but he copied a frame, and the most core thing was gone. It was a love story written by a writer, but not love. "Shadow Warrior" is Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece returning to samurai movies. Investors have sponsored two major American directors, Coppola of "The Godfather" and Lucas of "Star Wars", known as the most expensive movie in Japanese history. , using more than 4,000 extra actors, real knives and real guns, without any sci-fi, beautifully fitting costumes, gorgeous formations, the design of the art screen, every second, every page, director Akira Kurosawa The meticulous composition is related to his birth as an artist. He first drew the film sub-shot, wrote the script, designed the shape, and thought about the story clearly before he found money to shoot. Investors will shrink back and be afraid of such a grand scene. Director Akira Kurosawa is not afraid. His ambition comes not only from talent, but from the height of art. Perhaps, this is his understanding of the so-called film. Unprecedented films, cultural and historical inheritance, literary expression, and thinking about the Warring States Period and war, I think, he is the only and unique subject in this regard. Similar to war movies, Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" can be compared, and Oliver Stone's "Field Platoon", another major anti-Vietnam War director, is number one. But in terms of technique, Akira Kurosawa is still extraordinary. He builds his own movie world and basically thinks about the work clearly. The advantage of "Shadow Warrior" is not in the war scenes, except for those indescribably beautiful pictures, it is still from the human perspective, emphasizing the role of the shadow warrior, which is both close to the protagonist and far away from the protagonist. This is a cruel and abstract character. Later, , The shadow warrior chose to look for the horror that followed the war, because he could not escape, he would rather die on the battlefield, throw himself into the lake, and be buried with the lord. In the story of the Warring States, there is no so-called immoral brutality. Of course, life in ancient times was not black and white, with countless killings, but certain rules, certain classes, and layers of advancement. Zeming's understanding of history and war, born in a samurai family, tells us what persuasion is in the words of the movie, and it is powerful and powerful.
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