His hidden gold is that miraculous alchemical element in Jedi blood. His goal was a similar marriage of the visual (space) with story (Joseph Campbell inspired myth). So that is the real template Lucas took in conceiving his project. Obligatory Star Wars comment: I am sure Lucas' film school professors would have explained the relationship of story and visual challenge this way. He now has more natural horizontals in his greytone/greystone arrangements so has to create more artificial verticals. He still does diagonals, but fewer, less steep and with less static import. And he reinvented his strategy of panning of motion: compare a running sequence here to the famous woodcutter's running in the beginning of 'Rashomon.' Look at how he panned the General's attack on horseback. Here, he was able to relax the axis so that the layers did not have be so much on top of one another. His approach to framing had always been layered, usually three layers of activity in fore, middle and background. Kurosawa did not respond to the wide format like his American peers who preferred awesome panoramas. Kurosawa has wrestled this new eye and mastered it. But this second time, we are at peace, the frame is serene. Kurosawa not so.) At the end of the story, the peasant-actors are on a grand stair that mirrors a similar stair we saw earlier which was the scene of a huge conflict (in turn mirroring the battle on Eisenstein's Odessa steps in 'Potemkin'). Mifune would end up wealthy and celebrated in Japan. Mifune would eventually run away from Kurosawa's - probably much needed - overbearing command. (Mifune's pride and Kurosawa's control were much like that shown here between Mifune's samurai and the peasants. The gold in the film is hidden in similar harvesting of nature by the eye. The gold in the story is hidden in sticks. The story is told from their perspective. (Notice the symbols he uses for these three klans.) The two hapless peasants represent to the story what actors represent to the 'real' enterprise of film-making: relatively ignorant, gold-chasers, likely to turn on each other, and liable to go where they are not supposed to. The 'middle' territory is under attack, and our characters must leave their fortress and go all the way from left to right to survive. So we have a story about three territories and a journey that spans them all. As with all his scripts, the story reflects his own challenges. He was master - indeed largely the creator - of a visual grammar and the rules had changed. One really needs to study his framing in the old format to understand how significant this challenge was. The new territories are on the left and right, which in the original cinerama were actually two additional cameras. It is a matter of there being three territories where there was formally one. All his life until here, that frame was the same, but all of a sudden it changed. #THE HIDDEN MOVIE MOVIE#Kurosawa is first a visual storyteller who scripts in pictures, each one dramatically framed. Our child-friendly review of Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2020) has at-a-glance ratings to help you decide whether this movie is suitable for your. This time around, his concern is the new aspect ratio of 'cinemascope' copied and renamed by Toho. Regardless, they didn’t get the attention they deserved, and it’s time that they do.Any Kurosawa film is worth watching, but the focus of interest shifts from project to project. Some were breakout films from rising directors that simply can’t be missed, and others showcased some well-known names in a new light. Maybe they got overshadowed by a big blockbuster that’s really half as good or just flew too far under the radar for audiences to see, but they certainly don’t deserve to be forgotten. RELATED: 10 Upcoming Movies From IFC Films Indie Fans Should Be Excited For However, there were plenty of great movies that struggled to find that same recognition and success when they really should’ve. There have even been some big breakout movies like Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and Uncharted that have garnered some wide acclaim and found some good success at the box office. Movies like The Batman, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Top Gun: Maverickabsolutely killed it at the box office with Maverick even breaking past the billion-dollar mark. This year has already been one hell of a year for movies.
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