The 207-minute final version is so compact and magically sucking you in front of the screen
The first three-and-a-half minutes of the black screen with white characters and the five-minute black screen with white characters in the middle of the rest are all interesting things that have never been seen before.
See also the "troika" under Akira Kurosawa: Mifune Toshiro, Shimura Joe, and Chiaki Mizuo admire a lot of emotions, and their facial muscles move as if they jump out of it. I can only keep one. The expressions and admiration almost dominated the era of black and white films
Another magical power of Kurosawa is that his early and mid-term works seem to be destined to use black and white imagination. If you change to color, it seems to completely lose half of the taste. Because these themes are very heavy and the era that occurred for a long time, black and white has its own kind. Half of the solemn aura is the wonderful use of light under black-and-white shooting. The flickering light and shadow make people look more lifelike and easier to capture the changes in facial expression.
The whole movie completely shows the different images of more than a dozen people. It is rare to talk about the contradictions and relationships between the two classes of peasant warriors and their own contradictory images.
The peasants are being bullied and weak. The surface is loyal but cunning and stingy. They can only think that they are really alive. The image of the spectator in Lu Xun's pen. Isn't that the way people hang up high?
When the farmer begged the samurai, Chu Chu felt sorry for himself eating tares and gave the samurai white rice to eat. "We must be worthy of the bowl of white rice in our hands."
When the samurai entered the village, the farmers hid for fear that they would be hurt by the samurai. The samurai knocked on the gong that indicated that the bandit was coming. The farmer ran out crying and knelt down and begged the samurai for protection.
When the defense of the bandits was basically completed, some villagers said that if the bandits didn’t come and invite the samurai, wouldn’t they eat rice?
When the samurai decided to abandon the three houses outside the village to defend the twenty ones in the village, the people in those three houses couldn't let them see the house burned by the bandits and cried there.
When the villagers saw their wife who had committed adultery with the bandits, they couldn’t hold back and put the samurai in danger, and one person was shot by a musket (a total of seven people)
When a bandit attacked, more than a dozen villagers threw their weapons and ran away. When the samurai threw the bandit to the ground, they charged up again "heroic"
When the samurai caught the captive and didn't want to kill him
On the eve of the decisive battle, the villagers finally took out the meat and wine, as Kikuchiyo said, they actually have everything
After the bandits were wiped out, the villagers happily sang songs and planted the seedlings and completely forgot the Seven Samurai who were born and died for them.
And the samurai
They were serving the nobility. This time they decided to help the peasants in order to be worthy of the bowl of rice.
But they should still be aloof
Although they are shabby, they are still hot-blooded warriors
That's why they were so angry when they saw the villagers kill the weapons and armors that the samurai captured
What they do for themselves is right to take up their pride
At the tomb of the samurai who died in battle, they didn’t cry, just bowed their heads and kept silent, "Don’t cry" they said to the villagers
Then the flag that Kikuchiyo raised looked so tragic and so exciting, "It is lively when the flag is flying during the war."
In the three days of fierce battle, after the storm and sand, the banner never fell. The spirit of the samurai never fell.
People in the flag in the city
After the battle, Kanbei Shimada was exhausted and said to Shichiroji, "We are still alive again."
At last
Watching the villagers singing and planting rice seedlings
After five minutes of silence, Kanbei Shimada said
"This time is also a defeat, right"
"what?"
"I mean the farmers who won are not us"
The camera shows four samurai swords and four solitary graves
Lost ronin
Not a samurai
On the road again
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