"Red Beard" is still the work of Kurosawa Akira and Toshiro Mifune's golden partner. I believe that if there is no Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune may be just a relatively ordinary actor, and Toshiro Mifune's performance in movies is often not the brightest. However, the talent of a director can fully enable an actor to perform at the highest possible level. One of the roles of a director is to use his artistic techniques to let the actor enter the state of selfless performance. The reason why Mifune Toshiro became the Mifune Toshiro in Japanese movies, to a great extent, relies on Kurosawa Akira's clever understanding of film art based on the permanent power support.
In the language we are usually used to, this film is about the trauma of poor people and the shining spirit of people that they show. The doctor with the nickname Red Beard, played by Toshiro Mifune, is the person in charge of a hospital. In this hospital, he does his best to treat those in distress, not only physical trauma, but more of that kind. Mental injury. The clue that runs through this story is a young pretentious intern. From the beginning he looked down on Red Beard and wanted to embarrass him, and gradually saw the moving spirit of the patients in this hospital. In this process, he understood each other with Red Beard, from misunderstanding to following, decided to abandon his selfish ideal of becoming a general doctor and embarked on the road of following Red Beard.
We seem to have seen this kind of plot in countless places, and it is not new at all. But in this three-hour black-and-white film, Kurosawa used his superb film to express art and told a touching story. What is most surprising to me is that in Kurosawa Akira's film, every actor is not redundant. No matter the protagonist or supporting role, they all play a synergistic role for the development of the story and the extension of the meaning. In this movie, it is not the red beard played by Toshiro Mifune or the young intern who has the most wonderful performance, but the unfortunate people who have been healed by the red beard as a supporting role. Whether it’s the woman who was sexually assaulted in her childhood and determined to retaliate against the man, the man who lost his wife regardless of her serious illness and doing things for other people, or the unfortunate orphan who was rescued from the brothel and had the most ink , The performances are very vivid and touching. Especially the scene of the young intern and the orphan taking care of each other was very touching. When I saw the orphan using the money that was begged to buy the bowl for the intern, my eyes moistened. This kind of performance is really natural and natural, and the little girl will play an unfortunate person who is deeply traumatized by the heart. And this movie is not just a movie that always makes people cry. Akira Kurosawa can always lift heavy weights and infuse lax laughter in a hard life. The women who play the role of helpers, although the play There are not many points, but in just a few moments, their personalities are clearly displayed, and the few moments where they make fun of each other can make people laugh. The clever Kurosawa did not make this movie into the kind of superficial Qiong Yao film and television-style crying and crying film, but to let the audience be attracted by the step-by-step plot advancement, and enter a kind of serious thinking. It is interspersed with lively and healthy plots that make people laugh. The dialogues of wonderful actors and the cheerful rhythm can be said to make people happy, sad, and unforgettable. In fact, in this movie, there are not many places where the red beard is inked. Kurosawa uses a method of setting off, through a few typical cases, the performance of these patients to carve the humanitarian spirit of the red beard. And finally gave this movie a bright future, and the young intern doctor also changed the course of life under the inspiration of Redbeard's personality.
In this film, Akira Kurosawa pays more attention to the fate of the disadvantaged under the oppression of the times. Through a character like Red Beard, he puts deep humanitarian thoughts and care on him. And less effort is spent on editing the scene of light and shadow. However, he can still see the panoramic photography technique that Kurosawa Akira is used to. Although Kurosawa always likes to use three cameras to shoot a scene from different angles at the same time in his movies, it makes the movie's sense of space and The sense of time is more real and there are many changes in perspective, but Akira Kurosawa also did not ignore the close-ups of the faces of the characters, and he used them very freely. Coupled with the wonderful performances of the actors, they have created a movie whether it is Ideologically and artistically, they can definitely be regarded as outstanding films.
For Kurosawa's films, I always feel that what I can express is far from being his all. But I am happy that it is so difficult, so pleasant, and so beautiful process to constantly try to understand Kurosawa Akira bit by bit through his beautiful movies.
2006, 4, 3
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