For the fans of Takeshi Kitano and myself
What is the 18-year-old Kitano doing? If you weren't stealing my sister's dowry, I would probably still use beetles to fish for money from the money box in the temple (laughs). Next time I go to the temple, I will also catch a unicorn, try this method. At the age of 18, Kitano was admitted to Meiji University and is now known as one of the six universities in Tokyo. The major he was admitted to was basically the College of Engineering. His family is very poor, so several brothers and sisters also have a family division of labor. The eldest graduated early and worked in business to support the family. The second brother took the academic path after taking a Ph.D. in chemistry. The "unsatisfied" Kitano probably got an independent major. , This is somewhat similar to China's early years of studying mathematics, physics and chemistry. If there is any regret, Kitano's older sister failed to continue her studies. Gender discrimination was still a common occurrence at the time, and of course economic factors were also one of them, such as dowry. Just when Kitano was admitted to college, his sister had just married. Yes, he stole his sister’s dowry, even though the 600,000 yen dowry was hidden by his mother in a bag in the closet. What is the concept of 600,000 yen? When he was a child, Kitano and his parents, grandmother, two older brothers, and one sister were crammed in a small house with only three rooms. When he was in elementary school (although poor, his mother and elder brother gave him the best school, like many Chinese parents), the richest classmate brought a mobile phone of 30,000 yen. At that time, Kitano's eldest brother worked as an interpreter at a US military base, and only managed to support several younger siblings. Once, the eldest brother brought a small TV set back, and it was stolen by Takeshi Kitano and sold for 20,000 yen. At the time, Kitano was still a jerk, but of course it is almost the same now (laughs). Kitano, who had stolen the dowry, was fooling around outside for a month and didn't go home. When he got home, his mother grabbed a knife and started screaming: "I will kill him, and then I will commit suicide." At this time, his grandmother grabbed the knife and shouted, "No, I am the one who will kill him! One thing is that he did the same in the movie when the accident happened. Before shooting "Bad Boy's Sky", Kitano had been playing movies. Except for the relatively stable performance of "Sonata", "Sex Rhapsody" was a mess, "That Summer, Quiet Sea" was flat and drowsy (but I personally like this one very much), "3-4XOctober" The narrative and shooting techniques are lacklustre. "Bad Boy's Sky", which tells the story of the 18-year-old, is a special film for Takeshi Kitano, both in terms of art and life. Before "Bad Boy's Sky", Kitano's last movie was "Sex Rhapsody." To what extent is this movie unpopular in Japan? Even "Despised by Tokyo's film critics" is already a polite statement. Just in the period between the filming of "Sex Rhapsody" and its release, on August 2, 1994, Kitano was involved in a car accident. What followed was fierce and ruthless criticism of the film by the film critics. Kitano was hit by both physical and mental shocks. This man with the creed "I don't want a boring life" was so sad that he was overwhelmed and fell into depression. According to his own statement, the night before the car accident. In the izakaya, he drank with a group of friends and chose motorcycles in order to get rid of the paparazzi. As a result, at three o'clock in the morning, he had an accident on the way to a secret date. The "secret date" in his autobiography is probably just a euphemism. The chaotic private life of Takeshi Kitano is no longer a secret. On December 9, 1986, for a scandal report, Takeshi Kitano took the people from the "Military Regiment" to the other side. The editorial department was smashed. He himself was imprisoned for 6 months and suspended for 2 years, which also caused doubts about his relationship with the underworld. When Kitano was found and sent to the hospital, his head was broken to pieces, his body was broken in many places, and his body was covered in blood. Half of his face was smashed, so was his chin, and there were several fractures on his skull. "Even the first responders didn't recognize it." However, after being recognized, he immediately enjoyed state-level medical treatment. After all, the reputation of "Pai Ziwu" as a national-level TV comedy idol was not covered. Many years later, Kitano turned his head and mocked that if it were not because he was a celebrity, but an ordinary accident victim, he might have died in the emergency room or died for life, and his acrimonious personality remained undiminished. The biggest consequence of this accident was that Kitano's right half of his face was almost paralyzed, commonly known as facial paralysis. Therefore, I have always felt that facial paralysis performance, a term used to describe some Chinese actors, is an insult to Kitano, because Kitano took the Palme d'Or and became popular in Europe after his facial palsy. Not much paralyzed, commonly known as facial paralysis. Therefore, I have always felt that facial paralysis performance, a term used to describe some Chinese actors, is an insult to Kitano, because Kitano took the Palme d'Or and became popular in Europe after his facial palsy. Not much paralyzed, commonly known as facial paralysis. Therefore, I have always felt that facial paralysis performance, a term used to describe some Chinese actors, is an insult to Kitano, because Kitano took the Palme d'Or and became popular in Europe after his facial palsy.
B. Kitano's movie actually entered the ward so seriously, Kitano has no income, and the operation of the company has become a problem. "In short, I didn't receive treatment while thinking about work. It was work that treated me." Afterwards, Kitano Takeshi described the experience lightly. But the extreme anxiety of eager to resume facing the challenge as soon as possible, and worry about not being able to return to the self before the accident is probably only he can experience it. "I want to make a pure film, which marks a new departure. The goal is to entertain the audience and at the same time achieve a certain level of art." This film is "Bad Boy's Sky". If it weren't for this car accident, it's hard to imagine that he would say such a thing, because he is the kind of director who forced the whole set to scold his mother, "Don't be a fool." Some people regard "Bad Boy's Sky" as an autobiography of Takeshi Kitano, and they have mistaken the times. Indeed, when Kitano was filming this movie, "it seemed to be sitting on a time machine that went back to the past." But the destination of this time machine was 1994, the accident and the time it was paralyzed in bed afterwards. A few more words about Kitano Takeshi’s experience will help understand his film and style. Kitano was born in 1947 in the poorest area of Adachi Ward, Tokyo. Two years ago, Tokyo was still under bombing by the Allied forces. "It is estimated that 100,000 people died." Fires after bombs were thrown out were a common occurrence. He is the standard post-war generation. When I was young, I went out to paint the walls with my father. The masons were dyingly dirty, so when I went out, I often wore the most torn clothes and came back to wash out a layer of mud. And Kitano himself dropped out of college, and his debut was in the center of Tokyo’s civilian residential area: Asakusa. At that time, the Japanese underworld was still active in the area, providing a certain kind of public order that the police could not guarantee. Like the two starring actors of the movie Ken Kaneko and Masanobu Ando, both were born at the Osaka World Expo (the iconic sun god that has Japan’s economic boom). This is the World Expo that adults miss in the movie "The Counterattack of the Adult Empire" by Crayon Shin-chan. When they were 18 years old, they were already in a "relaxed era" compared with the hardship after the war. However, the experience in Adachi and Asakusa deeply influenced Kitano's movies. For example, in "Bad Boy's Sky", there is no scene of a student entering Dongda University and Waseda, nor a student who later became a lawyer or a doctor. Similarly, in Kitano Takeshi's gangster movies, there are very few "Godfather"-style suit bosses. This class division created a unique perspective that belongs to him. Another feature of Kitano Takeshi's movies is "wild." Before "Bad Boy's Sky", he was on the set to shoot whatever he wanted. He had never studied the movie seriously. He just applied himself instinctively. Own theory. "Bad Boy's Sky" is his first film made with a more orthodox directing technique, and it also gets rid of his previous film language of "talking to himself".
, It was covered with lice. To me, that is the life of a big family. For ordinary people, life is a mangy dog. It is normal to have lice. If you want to be free of lice, you have to wash or struggle constantly. So I especially like a dialogue in Zhang Wanting's film "Autumn Fairy Tale". When the scumbag shook Zhong Chuhong, he said, "Do you remember Woody Allen saying that feelings are like a shark. If you keep swimming forward, you will die." At this time, the waiter mopping the floor. Fa Ge said: "Did Allen say that? What he said is that this trap, this trap, I met." (If you want to hear the effect of that moment, you must read the Cantonese version). Fa Ge used a peculiar irony to uncover the fig leaf of literary language, and Kitano Takeshi was also the one who used movies to tell the truth about life. Just like in his movie, there are many actors who have no names, but each one can make people impressive. The protagonists of "Bad Boy's Sky", A Sheng (Xiao Ma) and Xin Zhi (Xin Zhi), went to learn boxing in order to avenge school bullying. One hopes to become a boxer, and the other embarks on the path of benevolence and righteousness/underworld. The main line of this story is touching, but the fate of those unnamed supporting characters that caught my attention the most. In the movie, Crosstalk A and Crosstalk B, who have no names, used to practice on the top floor of high school. After graduation, they continued to talk about crosstalk in the empty theater. Normal students A and B who did not even have names entered the club after graduation. Every day, he was scolded by his boss. A and B who didn't even have a name followed suit to provoke the underworld and were knocked down. Fuck the world! When you feel that life is enough to fuck, you can always unlock its new posture. For example, normal students A and B fired their bosses and quit their jobs to become taxi drivers. They thought they were free, but they were told by the car rental dealer that they shouldn’t enter the car if they didn’t drive full mileage, because they could circumvent labor laws by adjusting their mileage. Finally, there was a car accident; classmate A and classmate B who followed the trend of boxing were finally dismissed from the boxing gym because they were not talented; the bully C, who used to bully people, wore serious suits. In the cafe on the street corner, the youthful young man finally plucked up the courage to say to the longing waiter sister Zhizi: "This time, would you like to go to the movies with me?" "No, thank you." He already has a husband. Sister Zhizi finally got tired of her innocence, turned around and picked up an unburned cigarette, turning from a goddess to an aunt. The youth of the boy came to an abrupt end.
Foolish, haven't they all started yet? Back to the protagonist, A Sheng confronted the family elder for benevolence and righteousness. He was chopped off by the underworld and retired from the club; the talented Xinzhi was instigated by the boxing gym's old fritters to drink and eat meat, and retired from the boxing ring. A Sheng was once appreciated by the underworld elder brother, and Xinji once KO opponent was regarded as the star of tomorrow by the owner of the boxing gym, but what about it? The underworld brother was in a different place. Drinking and eating meat caused him to take laxatives to maintain his weight. As a result, both of them returned to the starting point when they didn't start. Going back to the scene at the beginning of the encounter, A Sheng was looking for a job idly, and Xinzhi was delivering breakfast milk on his bike. After the encounter, Xinji rode the milk-sending bicycle and carried A Sheng back to school, spinning round and round in the playground as before. A Sheng said: "Nothing has changed." Xinzhi said, "Yeah." Xinzhi asked the famous line: "Shengjiang, do you think we are finished." Are we finished? When I was 18, I asked myself the same. Even though at that time, the Wuyue Sanren hadn't revealed his greasy middle-aged character, the goddess of thought Liu Yu had not married the current male god Zhou Lian, and Xu Zhiyuan was still writing columns one after another. 18 years old is the first struggle in life, where to study, what major to choose, what kind of life do you want to live. Most people have to leave their parents and their own city/town/country to embark on a new journey. The English name of the film is "Kids "Return", I think this means returning to the origin of their lives, where they made their choice for the first time. "Bagaya Road, we haven't started yet." A Sheng replied Xinzhi like this. Just like in "Achilles and the Turtle", Higuchi Ka Nanko, who couldn't bear the madness of art and left, came back again and said "Let's go home" to Kitano, who is desperate and has no talent for artist. This is also the gentleness unique to Takeshi Kitano. From an empty theater to full of people, Crosstalk A and Crosstalk B finally realized their dream of practicing crosstalk on the top floor of high school day after day. This was also the path Kitano took, from the obscure "Kitano Takeshi" to the "Taizi Takeshi" on the national stage. Then he drank, entangled with women, and became drunk and obsessed, until a car accident ran him back into the past again. After the filming of "Bad Boy's Sky", it was selected for the Cannes Film Festival, and it was successfully released in several countries. It was favored by European film critics. It was exported and sold domestically, which saved Kitano's defeat in "Sex Rhapsody". In 1997, he won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for "Fireworks". In 2003, he won the Best Director Award at the same film festival for "Zatoichi". He became the film director Takeshi Kitano as we know it today. . "I'm not that young anymore." When "Bad Boy's Sky" was released in 1996, Kitano was already 49 years old. He decided to regain his piano, tap dance, and read books. He said: "Physically, I am no longer the same person, but I can't stay there, stay where I was before the accident. I must rise again, and I must make money to support my family." This is what he did later, And he did it. "Bagaya Road, our (life) hasn't started yet." No matter how old we are, we can go back to the playground and start again. This sentence is for everyone.
우리이제끝난걸까? Are we finished yet? 바보. 아직시작도안했잖아. Idiot, haven’t they all started yet? Film reviews from Yiner's department, welcome to follow
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