"Careful Stick"

Elinore 2022-04-19 08:01:03

The simpler the picture, the better, with a neat and tidy aesthetic.

The dull picture should be covered with music immediately, and the uplifting music should overshadow the dull picture, so that the guest will be the host.

In order to show the height of the samurai in the camera, the shopkeepers had to choose crooked actors.

When the confrontation between the two sides cannot stand, a third-party inspection intervenes to save the plot.

I love the weird music that runs throughout, a tune with countless variations of tempo and instrumentation with the plot.

The dancer appeared, a strange and magical scene. Add a song and dance, the dancers should be ugly and weird, accompanied by percussion, impressive.

The two do not have to quarrel, I named it Hitchcock-style simplicity.

The entire movie scene is confined to a small town.

The most anticipated war is coming, but the two sides have made peace. This is a big ups and downs.

The base camp of the tavern is cleverly designed, because everyone comes.

Before the coach escapes, the audience's expectations of this person must be raised, and it will be exciting when there are ups and downs.

There are lights and shadows, and the picture is three-dimensional and uneven.

Slash and get the killer gangster playing dead to their feet, revealing shitty tattoos: realism. Add a little interesting detail when it should most be skipped.

The characters and even the images of the two younger brothers should be diametrically opposed, and they should not be homogenized, so they can have layers.

"The first half is, and the second half is changed by Unosuke": the bright line and the dark line, do not insult the audience's IQ.

Hot Hands Destroying Flowers and Sad Music: On the Magical Uses of Beauty.

Unosuke holding a musket: a symbol of the new age of gunpowder, a new era of gloom and danger. The last blind eye represents the blindness of the new era. The confrontation between the old and the new, the dialogue is worth pondering. "I'll be waiting for you at the entrance of hell." "This guy will die."

The mourning drum also represents the end of the samurai spirit.

Finally, the revenge beheading of the minor characters in the supporting role: rich characters, rich layers.

Set up a small character, echo the beginning and the end, and deepen the audience's impression.

study notes:

Master Kurosawa told us vividly with the film "The Stick of Heart": even a purely entertainment film, as long as it is polished with heart, can be praised after half a century.

In today's pursuit of "short and smooth", this kind of ingenuity is really commendable.

The sun was shining outside the window, but the movie brought me into the black-and-white viewing of samurai. The time-space switching was very strange.

Lighting, scheduling and composition are exquisite, and almost all lenses are vertical camera positions without bevels, creating a wide-open and large-scale aesthetic that is simplified and simplified.

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Yojimbo quotes

  • Hansuke: Samurai, wanna make some dough as a bodyguard? The going rate has hit the roof. My commission's one ryo. Which side will you take? Seibei Manome runs a brothel. All the women you want. But he's going downhill. I'd bet on Ushitora Shinden. The inn at the corner. That's his place. Tell him Constable Hansuke sent you. I'd take you myself, but I'm the law around here. Don't forget, now. I get one ryo.

  • Gonji - Tavern Keeper: There he goes again! The casket maker. Only guy in town making any money. Can't make coffins fast enough. It's best not to have any gamblers at all. One boss to a town we can tolerate, but two is a disaster. Only the casket maker profits from that. Knock it off, you bastard!