![]() ![]() This film is not just action for actions sake. ![]() Rather than going from a shoot out to a car chase to fist fight in order to maintain momentum (as a modern US action film would do), we switch from violence to slower dramatic scenes that help us see the character and the tactics. The violence does not take up the bulk of the film, and comes in fits and spurts. This film is not one big action sequence. Better films involve elements like theme, tactics, subplots, and so forth. bad guy violence is what helps the two resolve their conflict. The worst action films have a good guy a bad guy and good guy vs. For that reason, I think it ought to be evaluated as a film in that genre. Though the film has elements of a comedy and a drama it is obviously an action film first. How many action films can you think of ask this much of the lead and the lead delivers? He also plays different roles (as needed to advance his goals) in front of the rival gangs. Instead he is subtle in his comedy, and shifts between that, and cleverness, thoughtfulness, desperation, and violence at will. I could be missing something, or maybe it's just not for me.Īmong other things, the film is a comedy, but Toshirô Mifune doesn't play comedy in the Will Ferrel way. I'd like to hear some perspectives from all of you who really like it and maybe counter arguments. except that Toshio Mifune wound them up a bit? It seems like a deus ex machina because nothing as far as I could tell changed from the beginning of the movie to the end that now gave the one gang better ability to carry out this attack. I never understood why at the end the one gang could just decide to burn down the other gang's house and kill all of them. It seems to stray far from Rashomon's very flawed and human characters.Īlso the plot never made much sense to me. All of the other characters on the other hand seemed to act on the other end of the spectrum: as unrealistic because they are unwaveringly bad and also inept. ![]() It just sounds like an unrealistic, selfless, super good guy hero character. With Yojimbo, the plot was just that a lone warrior just comes along and saves a town suffering from gang wars by beating them up single-handedly and then asking for nothing in return. conventional action movies, but with pretty good cinematography. I will say I love Rashomon because it delves into human nature so insightfully but all his other movies I've seen always just kinda felt like. I didn't think Seven Samurai was super great either, actually. I never really liked Yojimbo (or A Fistful of Dollars), and I'm not sure why since Kurosawa is so highly revered. ![]()
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