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Hello everyone, I'm Xiaofeng. The classic movie brought to you today is "Seven Samurai".
When you're tired of the fake looks of martial arts movies?
When you're bored with the violence of action movies?
I believe that the movie "Seven Samurai" may change your prejudices against action movies.
Seven Samurai is one of Japan's most classic action films, it was filmed in 1954, and this masterpiece with a investment of more than $2 million tells us:
An action movie that doesn't rely on hype, doesn't rely on gore, doesn't rely on special effects can still win the applause. As a masterpiece of film history, "Seven Samurai" has received too many praises.
Upon its release, Seven Samurai won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival of the same year and the New York Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was rated as the first place in the "Top Ten Best Films" in the history of Japanese cinema by Japan's "Movie Shunbao". In the eyes of some fans, "Seven Samurai" can chase the title of "best movie in film history".
Francis Coppola, who has filmed The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, once said:
If he could make a movie with a master, he would rather be an assistant, and the master Coppola said was Akira Kurosawa
When Wu Yusen filmed "Chibi", the multi-camera shooting method adopted to create a grand momentum was first created by Akira Kurosawa in "Seven Samurai".
The blood relationship between Xu Ke's film works "Seven Swords" and "Seven Samurai" need not be said more.
John. Sturges remade the film simply and rudely, and took a wild name - "Seven Heroes of Lang Kouzhi".
MGM has fried cold rice again in 16 years and launched a new version of "Heroic Seven Dragons", still copying the story mode of "Seven Samurai".
Many filmmakers' tributes to "Seven Samurai" show the influence of "Seven Samurai" on future generations.
In 1954, an epic blockbuster "Seven Samurai" was released in Japan, becoming one of the greatest films in the history of Japanese cinema and even in the history of world cinema. At that time, "Seven Samurai" was not only the largest and most elaborate film, but also the most perfect interpretation of the spirit of Bushido based on the Japanese nationality, and its flexible editing and superb techniques were taken as the standard by many later filmmakers.
The story of "Seven Samurai" takes place in Japan's Sengoku period, which is a small mountain village that is deeply affected by taxes, labor, war and drought, and when it comes to the wheat harvest, there are constantly outside mountain thieves to harass and threaten. In order to protect the autumn harvest, the village chief decided to invite samurai to protect the safety of the village, and the reward was three meals a day. In the city, after several twists and turns, seven samurai were finally gathered, and when they returned to the village, from the friction between the samurai and the peasants, to the later joint resistance against the mountain thieves, a fierce battle was about to begin.
The film has a tired rhythm and fast action, and it is frugal to cut out all unnecessary content. This creates a sense of mystery and maintains the mood of apprehension in the film—a quick shot and a brief cut that tells the story of the farmer's search for a potential protector, and brings their mission to the guards.
In many of the scenes, there is an irresistible visual and emotional force, a dying woman struggling to climb out of the burning mill and hand over her child to Katsushiro, who sits down in place because he is too shocked, choking and crying, "This child, this is me, the same thing is happening to us", and the water wheel of the burning mill turns behind him. But the film's greatest scene comes at the resolution moment: the three survivors search for a buried cemetery for their companions, and the forgetful farmer has turned all his attention to the elated harvest celebration.
So, I understand that at the end of the movie, as at the beginning, the three remaining samurai are destined to walk on the road forever, and they can only be ronin, to be ordinary barefoot heroes, some proud, some confused, lonely and boundless, tired like the grass on the earth spreading endlessly inside.
The reason why this film has endured for many years, in addition to the ingenious story, which will be enjoyed by future film critics, is also the scene scheduling of the film.
In the last few scenes where the villagers and warriors protect the village in multiple ways, Akira Kurosawa makes up for the lack of actors due to the limited number of actors and backward shooting technology through excellent scene scheduling.
At the end of the film, kurosawa Akira shoots the fight between dozens of mountain thieves and seven samurai and a number of peasants, which has a great sense of opening up and fighting with thousands of troops and horses, attacking and defending in an orderly manner, with the lord and the second.
And during the filming of the final showdown, Akira Kurosawa tried to shoot through multiple cameras at the same time for the first time.
Coupled with the rapid editing of each character's movements in the later combat passages of no more than 2 seconds, the film is known as "the originator of modern action and war movies".
In addition, the image of "Kikuchiyo", portrayed by Toshio Mifune in the film, which is a heroic and heroic, uneven but lively character, is of great enlightenment significance to the shaping of film characters in later generations.
For both film students and amateur film lovers, Seven Samurai is a masterpiece not to be missed.