I cannot express in words how much reverence I have for this great work, not a second of the 207-minute film, the samurai class is gone, and the flag of the Seven Samurai is still flying. The plot of the movie is not complicated. The peasants who will be invaded by bandits recruit down-to-earth warriors to fight and finally win the victory. Akira Kurosawa is more mature than the "Rashomon" era, but also more ambitious. "Rashomon" is an innovation in story, "Seven Samurai" is an all-round evolution. In addition to the seven samurai, the main characters in the film also have several farmers, two women, four graves and a flag. The whole story is climax, and there is not a single second that gives the audience a sense of exhaustion and tediousness. Akira Kurosawa was a master of composition in the black-and-white era. Frame-by-frame wallpapers can be done with money, and frame-by-frame photography must be a master's mirror (Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" is also extremely good.) At the end of the four With the knife and the four graves, the dead are tall, the living are short, and the intention is distant, which is unforgettable. Kanbei is one of the leading roles given by the director. He is chivalrous, calm and humane. His "death" is that this character did not get the respect he deserved, and he had a life he deserved. He became a tool for farmers and left sadly. . Toshiro Mifune's Kikuchiyo is more malleable than Kanbei. He is the son of a peasant. He wants to become a samurai to punish evil and promote goodness, but at the same time he knows the bad roots and hardships of farmers, just as Kikuchiyo said when he joined the team. , It was the samurai that made the peasants look greedy, cowardly, and short-sighted, and Kikuchiyo's monkey-like energetic side I think is the source of Oda Eiichiro's creation of Luffy. The highly skilled Kuzō is the image of a traditional Miyamoto Musashi-style samurai, and his death by a musket also fits the theme of the movie. In this film, Katsushiro, who symbolizes the young samurai, lacks skills, is too ambitious, and has no responsibility, so that Kanbei goes from hope to disappointment, from disappointment to despair. At the end of the film, Kanbei looked at Katsushiro's back and said the famous saying "It was the peasants who won". Akira Kurosawa's "Shadow Warrior" once again showed the demise of the samurai class with the flag of "Fu Lin Volcano" falling on Nagashino's battlefield. However, when Akira Kurosawa was filming "Shadow Warrior", he was more mature in controlling the story, but less ambitious. And "Seven Samurai" is the most perfect movie at its peak. It seems inappropriate to describe it as "the greatest movie", but if "one" is added, I can't think of any other movie that can be the same as "Seven Samurai". level.
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