Akira Kurosawa and Color

Rachael 2022-12-11 19:49:57

Akira Kurosawa's first color film. As expected of a person who once wanted to be a painter, his control of color is also very good. It's just that he focuses on marginal characters, the theme deviates from the taste of mainstream audiences, and he is destined to suffer a fiasco at the box office.

Some colors that impress:

1. Tram-crazy boy: As a mentally retarded, he may be the only happy person in the film, driving away every day in the tram of his imagination. His colors are colorful, the room is covered with his colorful crayon drawings, the theme is the tram.

2. The father and son of the beggar: The old beggar should have been a master. He built a house step by step in his fantasy, and kept scrutinizing the details, such as whether the door should be English or Italian. The abandoned car they live in is often shrouded in the setting sun, with various paints, a magical color. However, after the food poisoning, the faces of both father and son turned iron blue.

3. The girl who tied the flower: She fell into a flower that she made by herself, and the flower was bright in color. However, the light was blocked by her uncle, and she also fell into the darkness. Then, I didn't quite understand her behavior of assassinating the delivery boy.

4. Blind Man A Bing: His face was as pale as death, and his eyes were empty. th.

Despite all kinds of depravity and sins, Akira Kurosawa left people with some hope.

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Dodes'ka-den quotes

  • Yukichi Shima: [speaking to his three guests] Let me ask you a question. Have you ever found a way to get rice from a rice store? I don't mean borrowing, I mean taking it right in front of their eyes.

    Yukichi Shima: [continues] You take a big pot and get it all wet on the inside, and have it filled at the rice store. Try to get it on credit and they'll refuse. You throw the rice out, but the pot is wet. So some rice remains stuck to the sides. If you repeat that three times, you'll get enough for a meal. Eh? Great, isn't it?

  • Taro Sawagami: Father...

    Ryotaro Sawagami: What is it?

    Taro Sawagami: Is it true we aren't your children?

    Ryotaro Sawagami: Think for yourself. Do you think you aren't? I know every one of you is mine. So, you're all dear to me. But if you don't love me, and if you don't think I'm your dad, then I am not. Right?

    Taro Sawagami: But people have always said that we aren't your kids, that our fathers are all different. And they didn't just tell me, but also Jiro, Hanako and Shiro.

    Ryotaro Sawagami: People say what they want. You can't stop them from saying all kinds of things. Right? No one can really tell whose child is whose. If you believe someone is your dad, then you are his son. If someone says you aren't my kids, then you ask him about his own father. I'll bet he can't answer. After all, it's either you believe me, or you believe the others.

    Ryotaro Sawagami: [looks at the kids] Who do you believe?

    Taro Sawagami: You, father.

    [all the kids raise their hands and shout in agreement]