This is the best Japanese costume movie I have seen so far, and my favorite of Akira Kurosawa's movies.
The first time I heard the name "Shadow Warriors" was in Nolan's "Batman: Mystery of Shadows," a group that Bruce trained in.
The armor restoration of "Shadow Warrior" is better than that of "Ran". The interior rooms in Kurosawa's shots are always very simple and unadorned, with a uniquely Japanese minimalist beauty. Compared with "Shadow", it can be seen from the documentary "Zhang Yimou and His Shadow" that Zhang Yimou relies heavily on special effects such as CG that captures Deng Chao's expression, upgrades, and backgrounds of splashing ink, and props such as umbrellas and screens with various wild grasses. , thus lacking the beauty of lens composition and the realism of history, and Akira Kurosawa would never engage in these bells and whistles.
The death scene at the end was very interesting. The cross editing of Oda Nobunaga's infantry fire and General Takeda's terrified cross-cuts kept accumulating the tragic situation, and the last big panorama explained the destruction of the entire army, and then alternately used several telephoto shots to shoot the fallen soldiers and the dying horses. The upgrade of the time is just right, which means that the fate of the Takeda family is perishing with the mistakes of Takeda Katsurai, and the "mountain" moves, no matter how fierce the "wind", the towering "forest", or the "fire" is, it will not help.
After seeing half of it, I suddenly woke up, in fact, everyone is a shadow warrior. The thief is Takeda Shingen's shadow warrior, a tool for Takeda Shingen to continue to complete his hegemony, and a spiritual symbol; the important minister is the hidden shadow warrior, the person hiding behind the substitute, who arbitrarily manipulates the substitute, wants to become his own puppet, and acts recklessly; Takeda Katsurai is his father's shadow warrior. He has always wanted to get rid of his father's influence and prove his strength, but even if he conquers Gaotian Divine City, he is still under his father's shadow. Tian Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are the shadow warriors of the Takeda family. They have been under the strong deterrence of the Takeda family, so that they have been deceived for three years and survived in unease. , forest, fire, mountain", executes Xinxuan's will, and sacrifices himself to protect the lord, just like Xinxuan's shadow.
In fact, out of movies, many people in our lives are also looking for shadow warriors. When we have to lose something, we are always reluctant to believe in reality, look for a substitute to seek psychological comfort, and continue to live in our fantasy. But just like the fate of the Shadow Warrior in the end, Xinxuan also pointed out that after his death, he would use a thief to find and complete his grand ambitions, but it was just a dream. In the end, the substitute fell into the water, and he couldn't reach the flag until he died, and this dream began to wake up.
Where is your shadow warrior?
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