historical lament

Jaylon 2022-03-21 09:02:10

Do we want to learn something when we read history and watch the great achievements of the Qin Emperor and Han Wu? Are you trying to learn a lesson? Probably only know what desire can make people do!

Countless people have said this, but Kurosawa, in my opinion, has done an excellent job of expressing it in the language of the camera and in a brief monologue.

1. Narration and monologue in the film:

1.

"Look at the ruins of the ancient city full of desires,

Wandering ghosts still linger.

Human desire is like a tragic battlefield.

No matter the past or the present, it will never change.”

2.

"How ugly the world is,

Having been born into the world,

As cheap as ants, yet stealing life.

Why bother yourself, how stupid.

Life is like a flower, it comes and goes in a hurry.

It must be turned into a carrion skeleton in the end.

people for power,

not hesitate to burn with lust,

Don't hesitate to jump into the deep pool of five turbidities.

Sins hoarded,

to the end of confusion.

Carrion falls to the ground and blooms, releasing fragrance.

Funny people, so ridiculous.

2. Psalms:

1.

Linjiang Fairy Rolling East of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty: Yang Shen rolled the east of the Yangtze River, and the waves washed away heroes.

Success or failure turned empty.

Aoyama is still there, How Many Suns.

The white-haired fisherman on the river Nagisa is used to watching the autumn moon and the spring breeze.

A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet.

How many things in the past and the present are all in jokes.

2.

Peach Blossom Fan • Aftertaste • Leaving Pavilion Banquet With Resting Pai Shaqing • Kong Shangren

Seeing the tingling of birds in the Jade Palace of Jinling,

Qinhuai waterside gardens bloom early,

Who knew it would be easy to freeze.

Seeing him rise from Zhulou,

Seeing him feasting guests,

Seeing him collapse!

This pile of green moss and green tiles, I once slept in the wind;

Satisfying the rise and fall of fifty years;

That Wuyi Lane is not surnamed Wang,

Mochou Lake ghosts cry at night, owls perched on Phoenix Terrace.

The dream of the ruined mountain is the most real, and the old world is hard to lose.

Don't believe this map replacement.

A set of mourning for Jiangnan, and a sad voice to sing till old age.

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Extended Reading
  • Theodore 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    Influential people in the film industry all over the world almost unanimously believe that Akira Kurosawa's films are far better than Western films based on the same Shakespeare play, both in terms of performance and artistic achievements, and they are the most perfect embodiment of the film. Adaptation principle of "Adapting the fixed space of the stage to the space of the screen". Therefore, we can say that Akira Kurosawa has made a great contribution to the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures. However, Akira Kurosawa's film is completely "Japanese". Although the adaptation of Shakespeare's original work has a huge influence and is subject to the original work, Akira Kurosawa used ingenious script arrangement and scene scheduling to complete Shakespeare's work. The textual conversion of the medieval Scottish moors to the Sengoku Japanese archipelago in the Weng script.

  • Archibald 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    Japanese Macbeth see the full of wishes/the remarks of the greed/homelees ghosts/are still around/human's wishes/like a great war/no matter when it is/never changes; Wild ghosts still linger. Human desires, like a tragic battlefield, will never change, no matter ancient or modern.

Throne of Blood quotes

  • Old Ghost Woman: If you choose ambition, lord, then choose it honestly, with cruelty.

  • Old Ghost Woman: If you would make a mountain of the dead, pile it so it reaches the sky.