Bushido of modern people

Lottie 2022-01-05 08:01:05

Takashi Miike solved a problem when reading the old version, "In your power struggles and political games, I use my blood to walk the way of samurai." The original elegant and freehand laparotomy were all expanded with B-level movies, and the ending part was too straightforward, but the decapitation (Daiming's head fell next to the dung pit) also had the spirit of "dung soil back then Wanhuhou", highlighting the vitality of peasant hunters and disdain for samurai (Actually, it's just illusion and necromancer), telling the director's position.

Compared with the previous version, Akashi feudal lord Qi Zhao’s nihilistic tyranny has been further expanded and detailed. For example, the big cooking head shows Shimada Shinsaku Emon to watch the farm girl: the hands and feet were cut off, the tongue was cut off and the Qi Zhao was given to Qi Zhao as a plaything, Qi Zhao Soon I got tired of the girl again and threw her in the snow. She wrote a book full of blood and tears with a brush in her mouth-Shinsaku Shimada saw the blood veins open and her eyes were cracked. But he thought for a moment, and couldn't help but sneer (understanding that this is a means of inspiring his sense of justice and mission, a tactic of power struggle), and at the same time stated that "(even if it is a tactic, brutality is still intolerable). I was terribly scary and willing to go to the assassination". The movie finally made Shimada Shinsakuemon tell himself that "(I understand this assassination is just) your power struggles and political games, but I still practice my Bushido." Compared with the old version, it has more modern considerations and psychological characteristics.

When the twelve people who died were bathing under the mountain spring waterfall, they asked themselves that the "survival value" is more modern than the way of thinking. At the

end, Qi Zhao crawled in the dung water... There is really a "human life like a tree and a flower". The wind falls, some floating on the green mat, and some falling in the dung pit (although it is a bit blunt XD)!

Although Miike Takashi's movie still has the bloody and uncomfortable part of the B-level film, he can see his new idea of ​​Kudo Eiichi's old film in many scenes.

The old version of Kudo Eiichi is neat and elegant, and the twists and turns of the assassination are also more classical. The original violent and bloody places are mostly expressed in a freehand way, with a quiet and dead beauty; Takashi Miike loves violence (by habit? XD) , The explosion effect is purely superfluous to serve the audience (but not pleased), color films make the characters easier to distinguish (clothing, appearance), the scenery of trekking in the mountains is very beautiful, and the director's self-stance is more straightforward; at that time, I saw Kudo The doubts and dissatisfaction of Eiichi's old version were basically solved by Takashi Miike.

Of course, there is one more point. The original story is that when I haven’t read the old or new editions, I’m very eager to see-how these thirteen people were summoned one by one to give up their lives for righteousness-but it still failed: the old version looks like It's still somewhat plain, and the new version adds new ideas, such as Shimada Shinsaku Eemon who wades to find fishing at the beginning (also the highlight of TRAILER in the trailer), etc., still can't add much color. The probation of nephews can hardly be better than the old version. It seems that the loyalty is the Japanese way, so that it can be tough; it is not the Chinese-style cock pirates or Liangshan juyi, full of personality collision and destiny encounter fortune.

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  • Anya 2022-03-29 09:01:04

    cult version seven samurai

  • Jarrell 2022-04-22 07:01:40

    Good-looking, Miike style, although a bit simple in some places. 20110409, 20:10

13 Assassins quotes

  • Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: Some call it elegance. Some call it cruel. I like it.

    [kicks his retainer's severed head]

  • Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: [after being stabbed by Shinzaemon Shimada's sword] It hurts.