Vivid characters and flat identities.

Laverna 2022-01-09 08:01:11

Analysis of the play: The
film follows a classical narrative and a three-stage structure.
The first part introduces the main characters, the two farmers, Zhenbi, and the princess. At the same time, it shows the contradictions, the existence of gold bars, the problem of identity, avoiding officers and soldiers to save their lives, and fleeing back to the country. The second part jumps out of the previous layout, the scene is transformed, and the plot spreads deeply. At this time, each character's image becomes more three-dimensional in the choice between plot and contradiction. The plot also continues to evolve. The third part is the climax and the end, and in the last few minutes to explain the ending of the two poor people, there are twists and turns. In the end, the drama ended in a happy reunion. The general and the princess returned to the country to recover, and the two also got the gold, and more importantly, their enlightenment after experiencing these.
And I have to admire the director's ingenuity in the play, that is, the contradictions of the roles in the film are soft and can be transformed into each other. The contradiction between the two peasants is greed for money and spoils, and the two outsiders form a whole, the contradiction between control and escape between them and Zhenbi. The conflict between Zhenbi and the princess in buying women. In the latter, these contradictions were all subtly transformed. It further reflects the character of the character. "Maximized" played the role of every contradiction. The two peasants turned into enemies to share the spoils, and when they encountered danger, they instantly became friends in distress. They always wanted to escape Zhenbi's control, but when they encountered officers and soldiers, they ran back to ask for protection. The princess insisted on buying the woman despite Zhenbi's objection, but the existence of the woman prevented them from being discovered by the officers and soldiers. These contradictions arise from the choice of the characters, and they are resolved by the plot. When dealing with several pairs of contradictions, the director also exerts their functions by deliberately strengthening and weakening them, such as the contradiction between the two, from beginning to end. The contradiction between the two who want to escape occurs in stages, and each occurrence can promote the further development of the plot.
Another feature of the film's drama is the "reincarnation" type of foreshadowing. For example, a group of them sold horses and bought women, but they avoided a catastrophe because of this. Zhenbi triumphed in the duel, letting go of the enemy, and it was the enemy general's letting go after they were arrested at the end that made them escape smoothly. The clues buried in the front line can have a reasonable effect in the future.
If you carefully pull out the plot line, you will find that the film has two plot lines. One is the two poor people fighting for gold throughout the film, and the other is Zhenbi and the princess fleeing back to the country. The two lines merge and intersect, interact with each other, and have independence at the same time. For example, the two people fighting for gold did not change because Zhenbi and the princess returned to China, and Zhenbi and his party also changed their plans because they discovered the gold. In terms of drama, the second line is relatively more tortuous, but also boring. The first line is simple but can always produce a comic effect, so to some extent the boring feeling of the second line is alleviated.

Characterization: After
watching the film, I found that I hadn't remembered anyone except the protagonist's name. Instead, I had characteristics like generals, poor people, and princesses. Yes, this is also a characteristic of the characters in the play: they all conform to the image characteristics set by the audience for their identities. But there was a little breakthrough.
The General Zhenbi played by Mifune fits all the characteristics of a traditional general, with one man as a guard, with one enemy and one hundred, and the bravery of going deep into the enemy camp. Along the way, the loyalty of the swearing guard will not be abandoned. Forgiveness in the face of defeated enemy generals. The tact to resolve the crisis again and again. Wisdom and bravery, courageous, brave and heroic in the image.
The impoverished princess, who has the mission of rejuvenating the family and country, abandons the princess spirit, moves cleanly and boldly, with a heroic spirit in her eyebrows. She has the cleverness to see through the real "extreme general method", and she also has the kindness to buy and save the fallen girl. She speaks countless words in the film, but she doesn't think she is a dull and introverted person. The most vivid passage that portrays her in the film is during the Fire Festival. She doesn’t care about the gold that was thrown into the fire to restore the country. She dances freely and happily in the sway of Naruto. Only then did I remember her mention in the previous film. By the age of sixteen. When she was arrested, she sang: "Human life, burn with fire; insect life, thrown into fire; the more I think about it, the more I feel...this is a dark world, like a dream, go crazy." He revealed a trace of sigh for the world around him, and also had no choice but to be constrained by his own identity.
Before watching the movie, I originally thought that the protagonist of the film was Rokurota Makiki played by Mifune. I don't know why the director used such a long opening to describe the two poor people. After reading it, I realized that the protagonist does not seem to be the heroic General Zhenbi, but a poor man who I have never remembered.
The image of the two poor people can be said to be completely opposite to General Zhenbi. They are stupid, and they are juggled around again and again. Cowardly and wretched, whether it's fleeing or rebelling. They are greedy and only for gold from beginning to end. If General Zhenbi is the light, then they are the darkness. But thinking about it carefully, their image is not boring, and even that their image cannot be defined as the "negative." Because their actions were not evil, but were caused by human nature and status, their appearances were extremely miserable, and they were swayed by the upper class from beginning to end, being kicked around like a ball. We cannot attribute all their fate to their own greed, so the audience can understand the rationality of their behavior. Due to the character setting, the contradictions between themselves run through the film, combined with their stupid, timid, greedy and other personality characteristics, so the two interspersed between the just general and the solemn princess, which also played a role in alleviating the film. The dull role. The humorous duo makes the film come alive in a dull rhythm. From the perspective of the play, the two of them are also the only protagonists who have changed in the whole film. The two were arguing from beginning to end because of the sharing of the spoils, and in the last scene, the two finally understood the relationship between life, wealth, and friendship. But in my opinion, the transition between the two seems a bit too sudden, and lacks some foreshadowing for changes.
In terms of character creation, what breaks the convention is the director's creation of female characters. There are three female characters in the film: grandmother, princess, and desolate girl. The grandmother's appearance is because she is in a tough confrontational dominance. She decides the actions of the princess and Zhenbi and scolds others. The princess is always tough and has her own opinions and decisions. There is also a short-lived girl who reprimanded two farmers for their unruly intentions against the princess in the cave, diligently on the way to escape, and bravely rushed out during the war and was injured, and even wanted to pretend to be a princess after being arrested. Go to death. The male characters in the film are indeed very different, including heroic generals and wretched farmers. The peasant and the girl who fell in love are also the people who were taken into the team, and the contrast between the two parties' reactions when faced with a crisis was even more obvious. In this film called "The Heroes of the Warring States Period" or "The Three Evil Men in the Secret Castle", the director not only focused the camera on the heroes and the "villains", but also women.
Generally speaking, the director has rules and breakthroughs in characters, and has a tendency to shape characters as a whole, such as generals, poor people, and women.

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Extended Reading
  • Jefferey 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Haha, it's more like the sad and happy life of two wealth fans. Besides, Uehara Mizo's voice is too ugly

  • Kennith 2022-04-23 07:03:27

    It was considered a blockbuster at the time, with many people and scenes, complicated scheduling, and a rougher story. The real protagonists are the two farmers, full of fun and all kinds of inferior roots, but they can also be considered to have completed their personal growth. Mifune Toshiro looked upright, and the more he looked, the more he looked like our army underground.

The Hidden Fortress quotes

  • Tahei: Now's our chance to give him the slip.

    Matakishi: Shhh.

    [He points at Princess Yuki sitting right behind them]

    Tahei: Don't worry. She's mute.

    Matakishi: She's mute but she can hear.

    Tahei: Stupid. A mute can't speak because they're deaf.

  • General Rokurota Makabe: [sees Tahei and Matashichi scrambling down the rocks, trying to escape] Hey! where are you going?

    Tahei: Boss, run! The Yamana soldiers found us! There were horses by the spring!

    General Rokurota Makabe: Idiots! I stole those.

    TaheiMatakishi: Huh?