You win "Macbeth"

Daphney 2021-12-22 08:01:06

Although it is the same story, the East and the West are really different.
Mrs. Macbeth is a crazy woman. Reading the original works, you will feel that her personality is a bit "excessive". But the Japanese lady in "Spider's Nest City" is just right. She speaks quietly and lowly. Japanese women have always been quiet, and their movements are simple and introverted. People feel that she is the kind of "catalyst". "The same soul figure can hook out the ambitions in a man's heart. In contrast, Mrs. Macbeth will inevitably give people a sense of hurriedly "going into battle in person".
However, because of this, Mrs. Macbeth's later madness, including the famous "Hand Washing Plot", is reasonable and inevitable for her personality development. The later madness of the Japanese wife was a bit abrupt, because this woman has always been so calm and arrogant, and even her husband has always been lightly contemptuous. According to my understanding, even if she is crazy, it is not because she feels guilty, but because she is extremely disappointed because she gave birth to a stillbirth, so she should not wash her hands there, I am afraid it is more suitable for her to hold a pillow as a child.
If I were to deal with it, she would sit there quietly in the end, as she always did, with her head half-down and motionless, but when she touched her in the room, she found that she had committed suicide.
In addition, the part of the "Forest Moving" in the film, "Macbeth" (the one starring Sean Connery) looks a bit funny, but it is treated by Akira Kurosawa as a humongous tree shadow. Swaying and moving in the wind and sand in the sky, like ghosts or ghosts, there are really some grieving people.
In the end, the death of the protagonist is also a great change. It has become a target for his soldiers. It is more terrifying and bleak than dying on the battlefield, and it also has a black taunting taste. Macbeth was still fighting against the trapped beast, and the struggle before his death was like falling into a spider web, struggling in vain and sadly towards the void.
And, I don’t know if I have read too many Japanese manga, and felt that the fable of the witch at the beginning is more pleasing to the eye in Japanese style. The three witches in "Macbeth" gave me the feeling that they were giggling and pretending, and the witch in the spider forest (though very much like an old man) was really a monster that people couldn't help but drew their swords.

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  • 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.