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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 3, 2011 1:41:44 GMT -5
Loved Rashoman.
If advice you seek, I'll tell you how I watched my first two Kurosawa movies. Watch in this order: Yojimbo followed by Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars followed by Sanjuro and finish up with Leone's For a Few Dollars More. I watched them in that order in the same week, all for the first time. I watched the Kurosawa film, and then I sat through it again as a Spaghetti Western knowing EXACTLY what Clint Eastwood was about to do.
Yep, Leone re-did Kurosawa. UT Austin, had a class in their RTF department that I should have taken, "Cowboys and Samurai". The Seven Samurai was remade as The Magnificent Seven, and I'm too foggy to come up with other examples but there are more. Kurosawa influenced many film makers inside and outside of Japan, especially the western genre.
If you are a Star Wars fan, the original movie, don't watch The Hidden Fortress. It was like the above experience but replace Leone with Lucas and replace Japan with Tatooine.
And yes, lots of directors copy the works of others. So let me recommend Kurosawa re-imagining Shakespeare's MacBeth and King Lear, Throne of Blood and Ran.
I am very lucky that I have great independent movie theaters here. I've watched all the above except The Hidden Fortress and Rashoman on the silver screen. Kurosawa was a superb artist, the eastern equal to Stanley Kubrick.
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Post by Killer Rob on Oct 6, 2011 22:11:26 GMT -5
"Kurosawa was a superb artist, the eastern equal to Stanley Kubrick"
^ i like that statement, it just sounds cool. Surprising the only Leone movie I've seen is "good, bad, ugly" which was totally fucking awesome but yeah I've always heard that people copied from Kurosawa and I've heard the stories of how passionate he was about film almost to the point of "HaraKiri" so I've always wanted to get to see more of his work. The only thing about watching films from guys like Kurosawa and Kubrick is they're not movies that I just want to pop in and watch, if I'm going to watch one, I want to be in that serious-type mood where I will give it my undivided attention...especially if it's my first screening cause one of the best feelings is watching a movie for the first time and after it's ended you realize you just witnessed a great piece of art. Anyways, thanks for the suggestions and hopefully I get around to seeing more Kurosawa stuff soon.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 7, 2011 1:07:44 GMT -5
I love Leone. Shit, I love Clint Eastwood. About Clint, watch any of his Leone movies, they are all excellent.
To me the most Halloweeney Western is High Plains Drifter. Everyone has a different interpretation about Clint's character in this movie, and I offer no SPOILERS! A must watch, and I love when he paints the town red, and rechristens the town "Hell". And as we know, sometimes Hell does follow....
I'd also recommend Two Mules for Sister Sarah, The Outlaw Jesse Wells, and The Unforgiven.
And I loved The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. I never thought I'd like Westerns until I discovered the combo of Leone and Eastwood, and it is now another genre I enjoy. The best movie I saw last year on the big screen was True Grit.
Westerns are as American as apple pie and surpisingly timeless as a topic for great film. People always say Westerns are dead, until the next new classic comes along.
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