I first met Kitano when the movie Dangerous Boy was popular in the 1990s. At that time, I was still studying, and everyone in school was fascinated by Chen Haonan, the pheasant group of Hong Kong gangsters, and so did I. At that time, I was young and felt that confuse was a very prestigious thing. The pictorials of Chen Haonan were posted by my friends everywhere in the house. I didn't post the pictorials at the time, I just looked for gangster movies everywhere. My aunt in Hong Kong liked me very much, so she sent me some clothes, money and stuff, and sometimes sent the VCD she had finished watching. It was the first time I saw Kitano Takeshi's movie at that time. Since then, I have never been obsessed with the Hong Kong gangsters like Chen Haonan anymore. Because I saw the horror and sadness of the gang in this old Japanese man's movie.
The movie I watched is called <>. It was from this movie that I became fascinated by Takeshi Kitano and Japanese movies. The shots of this movie are extremely cruel and bloody. In the first ten minutes, Yamamoto (Take Kitano) who was in exile in Los Angeles, USA went to find his younger brother, and encountered a black gangster on the road. He used it cruelly without a few words. The wine bottle slammed the black man’s head and pierced the black man’s abdomen with a broken wine bottle. Seeing this, I was shocked. I have never seen a person treat another person's life so improperly, even in a movie! In this way, I learned the violent side of Takeshi Kitano. Out of the young people’s love for violence and death, I watched the "Battle Royale 1" and "Battle Royale 2" that he directed or participated in in later years, as well as films in Venice. Festival brought him honor of "Fireworks". Then, he walked all the way down his youthful work <
I haven't read Akira Kurosawa's autobiography "The Toad's Oil". But I have seen a story before. It was that when Akira Kurosawa was shooting the movie "The Great Swordsman", in the last paragraph of Tsubaki Sanburo and Muroto Hanbei drew a sword duel, Tsubaki Sanburo's sword was passing through the room. At the time of Tohanbei, blood was sprayed fiercely. The staff on the set were shocked. This is what happened: The film workers in the past were limited by conditions, and some scenes were not as they are now, and they can be used with computers. Production. That is to say, a lot of things require primitive manual operation. The reason why the scene just mentioned appeared is because the equipment responsible for the blood spray broke. At that time, someone asked Akira Kurosawa if he needed to take this shot again, the black guide To put it lightly, no need. Since this movie, the exaggerated bloody and violent scenes have become active. Now in Kitano Takeshi, the ancestors' methods have been exaggerated to the extent that they can't be added. It is different from the predecessors' deliberate suppression of emotions. , There are many violent scenes in Kitano movies, and the content is exaggerated. For example, in this movie, when the blind man is surrounded by people at the beginning of the film, sudden violent scenes appear immediately. The audience brought strong stimulation.
In addition to the bloody and violent scenes in the movie, the characters in Kitano Takeshi's films have a prominent feature that seems to be right and wrong. For example, the blind man can draw a sword in a sentence and kill people crazy, unfeeling, but other On the one hand, he is extremely warm to civilians. Like massaging his aunt, taking care of the gambler and taking revenge on the two geisha brothers and sisters (one is a male disguised as a woman). There is also the samurai (Asano Faithful), he never abandons his wife, goes to the sick samurai who once insulted him, but kills people like cold-blooded animals...Perhaps, in the world of director Kitano Takeshi, people are like this Full of contradictions.
At the end of the movie, the climax is almost repeated. First, the blind man uses incredible wisdom to find the real villain. Then he uses a knife to slash the eyes of the villain (he thinks it is not enough to let the old villain die easily. After paying for his crimes), he continued to wander around the world. The villagers who were no longer bullied by the bandits actually danced Western tap dance in this Japanese costume film. I have to admit that this illogical scene has not only failed me. It brings a sense of abruptness, on the contrary, with the strong beat of the percussion, I also want to follow the crazy dance. Just like those unfettered savages in ancient times, unscrupulously looking for fun.
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