From Akira Kurosawa's early films, we can undoubtedly see his unique style of expression, such as in "Zi Sanshiro": Sanshiro's reaction to the teacher's selection of him as a representative is "a panoramic shot, a medium shot, A close-up shot "step by step, and with Sanshiro's three "teacher" lines, undoubtedly fully expresses a character's psychology. After the "Seven Samurai" was basically formed, Akira Kurosawa also created the film skills of multi-camera fast editing. Watching Akira Kurosawa's films is undoubtedly a visual feast, coupled with his portrayal of characters, it can be said that people are tightly gripped, and they love and hate the characters in the film. Akira Kurosawa's films are usually long-range, panoramic, medium-range, close-up... exchanged, forming a certain pattern. When expressing people's hearts, you can usually see a pattern like Quanzhongte. For the depiction of war scenes, the multi-camera editing is seamless, and the fighting is dissected from multiple directions. In war films, Akira Kurosawa is definitely very few people who can surpass him. But this method is not seen in "Shadow Warrior". Usually, it is a camera-following shot, and the beauty of the picture is much inferior, and the tension created by the war scene has disappeared.
"Shadow Warrior" also began to blur the characters, but his later "chaos", although the characters were not very distinct, surpassed in the performance of the picture. This film should be a work in transition. With the rise of the new era of expression in the 1980s, the directors of the old era had to make some changes to adapt to the trend of the times. The film's portrayal of characters and psychology are far less profound than those of "Seven Samurai" and "Sengoku Heroes". When I watched "The Heroes of the Warring States", the two peasants were simply shaped like gods, and the ronin of "Seven Samurai" really made me very happy. Anyone who has read the script should know that every character in the script has a distinct personality. When it is put on the screen, we can still see the distinct personality of the characters. We really have to marvel at Akira Kurosawa's skills. The "Shadow Warrior" film doesn't portray the shadow enough, but if you don't watch it as a drama, you may turn your attention to the reflection behind the film. I think the director also deliberately blurred the character image, so as to draw people's attention to the meaning expressed by "shadow". But it doesn't seem to be successful, at least the picture is far less well handled than the later "chaos".
In general, "Shadow Warrior" is in an era of alternating old and new, and it is also a period in which Akira Kurosawa's works surpassed the previous model. Therefore, there are still relatively large shortcomings, but it is also the reason why even greater works have been completed. cornerstone. (If the film wants me to rate, 8.5 is the upper limit)
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