The story of "Shadow Warrior" may be viewed from three levels.
The first is the matter-of-fact category, which is suitable for fans of Neon Warring States Stories and its derivatives. This level is the most topical, a plate of peanuts and two glasses of maiden wine, a game of unofficial history novels, and there is no problem in tearing it for three or four hours.
The second is to borrow ancient metaphors from the present. The general idea is to project part of the story into the 1940s: Tokugawa is Britain, Oda is Milikan, and Takeda is Nihong. After Shingen's death, the Takeda family should have kept a low profile, but as a result of internal disputes, they acted recklessly, and as a result, they were defeated by the iron cannon of the coalition forces, which symbolized the advanced trend, and lost the family wealth of Fenglinhuo.
This interpretation is slightly sensitive and has a big brain hole, but it is not nonsense. Akira Kurosawa filmed propaganda in the local area during the war. It is no better than Kobayashi Masaki, who worked outside as a soldier, waded through muddy waters and passed prison camps, so he hated the inner and outer skins of the upper-level officials; Tofu Ozu was always tight-lipped afterwards; Akira Kurosawa's reflection was limited to the technical level, conservative and ambiguous, and it was long overdue. He has filmed "I have no regrets about my youth", but the marks of the axe are obvious; to be harsh, maybe the "Man on the Tiger's Tail" said a few words of the truth (but don't treat GHQ as a foreign dish, the American people know about smuggling what happened to the goods). Probably will have to wait until you are old and combined with your own ups and downs before trying to look at the past from a different perspective.
This leads to the third level: self-pity. Comrade Kurosawa once had a split personality, he was talking about himself - everyone thought he was Shingen, but in fact he was just that shadow.
As the predecessor Douyou said, before "Shadow Warrior", Master Kurosawa was once in a dilemma of no film to shoot. Thanks to the help of two big fans of North Rice who were influenced by his early works, this film was established. From this, it is not difficult to understand the shame and self-deprecation in "Shadow Warrior" - or to put it another way, if you look at "Shadow Warrior" and "Seven Samurai" side by side, you will find that after 26 years of time, Master Hei is dark. few.
Half-jokingly, "Shadow Warrior" is a reverse version of "Seven Samurai". Xinxuan is like Kanbei, and the shadow warrior is like Kikuchiyo, but the soldier bears a nest and puts it in the "Seven Samurai", even if he leads a group of timid peasants to fight against 40 vicious bandits. Such a task is so difficult , at least the "mountain" has never been shaken; and this time, the mountain collapsed, and Kanbei hung up shortly after the opening (and was so unreasonable), and now it was the turn of the little thief, Kiku Chiyo, to get on the horse in a hurry, and crown the monkey. , to lead Fenglinhuo, and keep the Takeda family safe for three years.
When it comes to being shot, the four who fell under the iron cannon in "Seven Samurai"—Heihachi, Gorobei, Kuzang, and Kikuchiyo—are not too useless, while Shingen in "Shadow Warrior" is It perfectly embodies the vague argument of "a radiant knight hangs in the hands of a wretched ashigaru because the other party has a musket". What's even more absurd, it could have been safe and sound, but there are a few rank controls that must reflect the high and the low. When I saw it, I waited for the rabbit to take a look in advance, and in the dark night, I shot the blind cat and killed the mouse, and the mountain collapsed.
Official-Liaoism kills people.
The fish's eyes are mixed, and the fish's feelings are very complicated. This role is not good.
At the beginning, he must have been forced to be helpless, and he would have to be stabbed if he did not act; when the spies of Oda Tokugawa side witnessed the fact that the Takeda family's Shen Weng Suwa and Shingen's death was about to come to light, the thief came forward and expressed his willingness to shadow the warrior. Go on, there is a bit of loyalty here.
Entering the stage of practical operation, you have to lie to children, to lie to women's relatives, to pretend to read Takeda Chibi, to sit in the army meeting, to perfectly replicate the prototype standard action of stroking beards, to rub PP for Lengtouqing, and to be on the battlefield. To frighten Heihachiro Honda, he had to sit on the bench with an expressionless face in the sea of blood, and the most difficult thing to do was to fall asleep at night without dreaming of Shingen.
It was difficult to pass the pass, except for the last one, the shadow warriors actually survived.
Therefore, "Shadow Warrior" is much more troublesome than "Seven Samurai" when it comes to portraying the characters of counterfeit goods - Kikuchiyo's transformation is more through language, expressions, actions, and these factors, in Shadow Warrior, are all is imprisoned.
In the same situation, "Shadow Warrior" is much more realistic than "Seven Samurai".
Aside from that uncertain factor, Kikuchiyo, the samurai class in "Seven Samurai" is united: six people can perform their duties and live in peace. Even if there is a problem, most of it is the problem of the farmers - Heihachi got the lunch box too early because of Toshiyoshi, and Gorobei can also be blamed on the head of Kikuchiyo who left without authorization (there is no way to hide it for a long time, chaos in the rain). But in "Shadow Warrior", the complexity of human nature finally showed its fangs: Sheng Lai was reckless and aggressive, and he acted with anger (the army was in front of many unwitting retainers at the meeting, causing problems for shadow warriors), but the root cause is not that I can't understand - the old man is only here, the old man is dead and still living in the shadow of the shadow warrior, when will this day be the end?
So he sent troops to Gao Tianshen and sent troops to attack Tokugawa, just to settle those old officials and to convince the public.
Of course, what he did was just a circular demonstration of how wise the old man had reservations about him at first: this gentleman is sparse and almost mean.
It's ironic that the shadow warrior has deceived all the unknowing masters in the end, but he can't deceive a horse: he swelled, and for a moment he forgot that he was just an impostor, and he tried to ride the black cloud of the fierce horse - that horse It is also a muscle, and only recognizes Xinxuan himself.
In "Seven Samurai", Kikuchiyo also fell from the horse, but it was purely for fun. In "Shadow Warrior", it means the end of the dream. He never saw Takechiyo again, and the once-respectful guards started throwing stones at him.
Ironically, at the same time, the Takeda family began to gradually collapse. In fact, the person is still the same person, but as long as the label changes from "Xinxuan Gong" to "counterfeit", everything will be different.
What maintained the myth of Kafei Takeda's indestructibility and made a bunch of flags sacrifice their lives to block bullets turned out to be just a puppet symbol. Once it was punctured like a balloon, it would be as fragile as a scarecrow.
The story has progressed here, and the meaning to be expressed is almost over. As for the battle of Nagashino at the end, the defeat of Takeda by the Zhide coalition with 3,000 iron cannons is not so much a climax as it is a note. The battle has not been opened, and there is no suspense about the outcome. Therefore, in the treatment of this section, there was no fighting, no screaming, and no scenes of direct confrontation: the cavalry charged, the iron cannons sounded; the cavalry charged again, the iron cannons sounded again, and then it was a complete defeat. The mountain has moved, and the ground is full of mess.
At the end of The Seven Samurai, Kikuchiyo uses her own death to complete the transformation from triangle to circle, heroic, old-school, and orderly. But in "Shadow Warrior", the angry eyes and guns rushed to the three thousand iron cannons. There was no tragic at all, only absurdity and nothingness. The banner of Fenglin Volcano has long been wrapped up and disappeared in the tide of the times.
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