Akira Kurosawa and Color

Rachael 2022-12-11 19:49:57

Akira Kurosawa's first color film. As expected of a person who once wanted to be a painter, his control of color is also very good. It's just that he focuses on marginal characters, the theme deviates from the taste of mainstream audiences, and he is destined to suffer a fiasco at the box office.

Some colors that impress:

1. Tram-crazy boy: As a mentally retarded, he may be the only happy person in the film, driving away every day in the tram of his imagination. His colors are colorful, the room is covered with his colorful crayon drawings, the theme is the tram.

2. The father and son of the beggar: The old beggar should have been a master. He built a house step by step in his fantasy, and kept scrutinizing the details, such as whether the door should be English or Italian. The abandoned car they live in is often shrouded in the setting sun, with various paints, a magical color. However, after the food poisoning, the faces of both father and son turned iron blue.

3. The girl who tied the flower: She fell into a flower that she made by herself, and the flower was bright in color. However, the light was blocked by her uncle, and she also fell into the darkness. Then, I didn't quite understand her behavior of assassinating the delivery boy.

4. Blind Man A Bing: His face was as pale as death, and his eyes were empty. th.

Despite all kinds of depravity and sins, Akira Kurosawa left people with some hope.

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Dodes'ka-den quotes

  • Masuo Masuda: All women are the same. They nag you so much you end up in a bad mood. After work, let's have a drink.

  • 1st Man Calling Out: Hey, who got you pregnant this time?

    [Misao pushes him out of the way]

    2nd Man calling out: There's my Umeko. I hear you're with a new young guy. You've gotten prettier.

    3rd Man calling out: Hey, we haven't done it for a long time. Take a break from the young guys and let me have a little.

    [Misao slaps him in the crotch]

    4th Man calling out: Too good for us? Why not have a good time with me again?

    5th Man Calling Out: How are the children? Are they well?

    [Misao elbows him in the stomach]