Replay: Japanese version of "King Lear". Kurosawa injected Shakespeare's original script into the classical culture of the East. Like "Shadow Warrior", it is also one of Kurosawa's most charming movies. When "Shadow Warrior" won the Cannes Palme d’Or and the Oscar for best foreign language film, Kurosawa was already able to retire, but under the heavy burden of the elderly, Kurosawa was able to compile such a perfect one. A master's work, I have to admire its exuberant creative power, which is simply a perpetual motion for literature and art. In the aesthetic style of this film, Akira Kurosawa combines Eastern freehand composition with Western realistic colors to make the picture as rich as a classical oil painting without losing the majestic artistic conception of landscape painting. Although the script is adapted from Shakespeare's play, it is richer and more three-dimensional than Shakespeare's characters. The color represented by each force distinguishes the character's personality and forms a unified suggestion echo with destiny. For example, the yellow of Taro's army is a symbol of power and profit, which is consistent with the identity of the monarch being given; while the red of Jiro's army implies the aggressive expansion of the plot afterwards, and finally the yellow is swallowed by red, which is consistent with the role. The soundtrack of the whole film uses only minimalist drums and other instruments, giving this Western European drama script a form with the characteristics of East Asian classical nationalities. The green with a lot of white space at the beginning highlights the sense of movement of the characters. The director uses mountains and grasslands to replace the blank areas in the photography. The color of the clothing appears dull, which also implies the desolation and sadness of the story. This clear white space composition not only adds the artistic style of Eastern painting, but also sets the epic tone of the film. The director used a fixed long lens to express the scheduling of the big scene, creating a staged scene effect. Although it lacks a lot of the neatness of the matching editing, it also makes the chaos of the war unfold slowly under the eyes of Akira Kurosawa, who is old and nearly blind. "The world is not benevolent, and everything is a humble dog" Power is like a mirror, reflecting everyone's desire. Under the temptation of power, the weakness of human nature is gradually outlined, and a group image of a person is shaped into a stereotype under the grand epic. This may be the revelation of human nature, or it may be the distortion of human nature's hypocrisy. The reversal of the ending plot is even more subtle: in the bloody setting sun, a family of characters is completely destroyed, only the figure of the blind Tsurumaru stands alone on the ruins of the castle, and the painting of the Buddha in his hand falls. Facing the mutual killing of human nature, the gods and Buddhas of heaven and earth are helpless and can only observe silently. The blind are left...
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