Today is the 111th anniversary of the birth of world film master Akira Kurosawa. From his debut novel "Zi Sanshiro" to the closed mountain work "Sunset Love", Akira Kurosawa has dedicated nearly 60 years of his 86 years of life to film, and as one of the most important Japanese directors of the 20th century, Akira Kurosawa has been called "the Shakespeare of the film industry". Why? Listen to me.
Akira Kurosawa won the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, flanked by his students George Lucas and Spielberg
As we all know, the value of Shakespeare is eternal. Although he did not enter the "eyes" of his contemporaries, he had long been mixed up between the three religions and nine streams. Even with the voluminous scrolls of engraved history left behind, a considerable number of people doubted for nearly two hundred years whether the real author was Sir Francis Bacon.
Shakespeare (left); Bacon (right)
Shakespeare's plays are like a set of templates, as long as your material library is rich enough, no matter in the context of any era, interpreted by any nation, placed in any country and territory, you can put it in. It is even possible to cross species and break dimensional walls.
In later generations, there is a person known as the "movie emperor", and thieves will rub hot spots. On the 420th anniversary of Lao Sha's birth and the 340th anniversary of her death, two heavy "bombs" were thrown.
Kurosawa
In 1956, Akira Kurosawa and his Digimon (Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, and Shigeru Chiaki) discovered that there was a large forest on the other side of the mountain and the other side of the sea, but there were no Smurfs. So he borrowed "Macbeth" from Shakespeare's "Four Tragedies" and built a spooky Spider's Nest City.
Looking at this painting style, Xiao Hei moved the background of the story to Japan's "Warring States Era", turning people's hearts into misty forests, the sound of the wind and cranes, the grass and trees are soldiers, a bit like the "midnight bell". But it is one of the best adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.
Stills from Spider's Nest City
Did you see the frightened little look in Mifune's eyes? That's not a special effect, because it's a real arrow! Akira Kurosawa took off his white gloves, and his hands were really black! Despite the assurance of a professional archer, there must be ten thousand alpacas flying in the heart of Mifune!
In 1984, "Emperor Kurosawa" was thinking about attacking another big boss in Shakespeare's "Four Tragedies", "King Lear". The background is still the "Warring States Era", but the three daughters of King Lear have been replaced by the three sons of Yiwen Xiuhu.
With the oriental allusion that "only the arrow will break, the three arrows are difficult to break", xiuhu taught the three sons to unite. As a result, the loyal young son broke three arrows on his knee on the spot, and the next direction of the story, do not know, see Shakespeare's "King Lear".
Stills from Chaos (1984).
The scene of the last text shows the tiger rebelling and being forced into the palace by his son, just like the oil painting. But you know what?" Emperor Kurosawa's sentence "The fire should look good" left a psychological shadow on everyone.
The problem is, everyone is inside the castle! Akira Kurosawa did not burn enough, and specially brought precious wood from Canada, which is said to have burned down three castles. On the back shot one, this time even burned with the shooting, Mifune Toshiro did not participate in the real wit.
Director Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's plays has changed the country and cultural background, and the times are similar. For the two tragic "kings" just "hands-on", let Shakespeare classics, placed in the Japanese Warring States era without any sense of violation.
Therefore, although Shakespeare responded to the sentence: "It has always been imitated, and it has never been surpassed, and Kurosawa Daisuke has proved with strength that "when it is false, it is true and false, and it is better to be blue than blue" (Zihua)