I think the 1958 Kinoshita version of "Narayama Festival Kao" is better

Sigurd 2022-04-20 09:02:25

I have read both of them and the original literature. I don't like the 1983 version.
Personally, I think the 83 version is not well done. It deviates too much from the original and has many bugs. In order to pursue the so-called human nature, the director has added a lot of adult content. Why can I win the award? Is it like red sorghum, only the more ignorant, numb and backward people are made to be a good work?
The two versions of the characters are very different

. The custom
is usually regarded as a tragedy. The more kind and weak the characters, the sadder the tragic ending they encounter at the end

. The works directed by Keisuke Kinoshita in the 1958 version are very simple and the main line is clear
. A kind old lady, she has no scheming, she always thinks about others, she is also a poor old man
Chen Ping is also a small, wretched and wretched farmer. He is helpless and unable to send his mother up the mountain. I was very indecisive, and in the last part of crying while hugging my mother, I felt weak and kind in my heart
.


The 1983 version of A Lingpo has a heavier scheming. It is said that the actor in his 40s knocked out his four teeth in order to play a good role, but the image still does not look like a 70-year-old man and he is more scheming in the play, in order to save his family He even tricked his pregnant grandson-in-law to go home to die,
and Chen Ping was tall and handsome, and
he was very ruthless with a scheming expression everywhere. He killed his father with a musket first, and then hoped that his mother would leave the
two main characters like in a palace fight drama. Chen Ping killed his father in cold blood, and A-ling lied to his grandson's daughter-in-law to go home and send her to death
. After watching it, she felt strange.

Moreover, the 1983 version has many loopholes, and the bugs in the film cannot be explained. For example, where did Chenping's musket come from? In the work, it is explained that this is a closed and backward small village with no circulation of money and almost no communication with the outside world. Every family has no money, and only one family has gone out once for decades and brought back one. coin. So
how could Chen Ping, who was called Qianwu without a blacksmith and could not even get enough to eat, could have a musket that even some famous names could not be equipped with at that time?
For a small, remote and backward village in Japan at that time, where material was poor, guns were considered luxury accessories,
not to mention gunpowder and iron sand?
Neither gunpowder nor iron sand can be produced in a small village,
and the 1983 version of the work said that Chen Ping used this musket to kill his father
. Simple and simple, the greater the psychological pressure,
a 14- or 15-year-old rural boy shot and killed his father, like killing a chicken. When I was in my teens, I confided the truth about killing my father to my mother. For decades, I have never leaked. What kind of psychological quality,
think about it, think about it in a different way. When I was fourteen or five, I killed my father outside. After returning home Should I eat, should I sleep?

How did a 14- or 15-year-old simple rural child keep secrets for 30 years without any psychological pressure after he killed his father?
And he added a younger brother of Chenping who was not in the original work, diluting the main line.

It is said that the director of the 1983 version Shohei Imamura made it for the purpose of surpassing the 1958 version of Keisuke Kinoshita, and won an international award, and everyone said
yes. Jiao is a good work



and the 1983 version is very contrived. Chen Ping is a ruthless, tall and mighty hunter, and A Ling Po is also a ruthless person.
Due to the inappropriate choice of actors, the 1983 version of Chen Ping is very powerful at first glance. looks like,

I really don't understand what's so good about the 1983 version

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