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Shakespeare meets Kurosowa (round 1), 25 May 2002
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mr_sboub from Switzerland
Round 2 being "Ran", an adaptation of King Lear.
This first adaptation sets the bard's play "McBeth" in medieval Japan.
Kurosowa decided to use a technique halfway between n� theater and adventure
cinema and succeeds as always to deliver something cool, exciting and
involving (not to mention time-withstanding!). Many of this movie's
detractors insist that the acting is exaggerated and that Kurosowa's
directing method is cold and impersonal... for your information, n� theater
is about exaggerated mannerism and expression (and the script is theatrical
[yet without piling up trite dialogue]) but one look at Mifune and you
realize that this is in fact astonishing acting pushed a little further (his
character is cool while occasionally veering towards a state of
superstitious alertness, then slowly descends into madness), and he plays a
villain. Your appreciation of this film depends on whether or not you can
sympathize with a flawed and ultimately insane person. As for the directing,
it isn't cold at all (quite visceral in fact when Mifune's character gives
in to his fits and his final scene is astoundingly gripping). Never will
Kurosowa be confused with the overly intellectual and distant (and inferior)
Kubrick. So to all you detractors, please grant this film the following:
even though it makes for an unsettling show of human corruption and deals
with dark themes, it does so in a very masterful way. Not Kurosowa's best,
but still a very worthy and refreshing addition to his
work.
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