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Review on Akira Kurosawa's "Ran"

Akira Kurosawa’s Ran

Akira Kurosawa used the different elements of film, mostly the image/camera or the visual elements, in order to convey an intensely felt humanist message, the tragedy of the destruction of a family. It is very obvious that Kurosawa must have used Shakespeare’s King Lear as a source for this film but it must be noted how creative he was in combining Shakespearean tragedy with the Japanese style of drama and the artistic condition of modern man (during that time, which was probably before the Tokugawa period (personal research)). The plausible difference between the two could be that in Shakespeare’s King Lear, Kurosawa’s three brothers were really three sisters. In addition to that, it is most obvious that it is not Shakespeare’s style to be gory, grotesque, bloody or detailed in battle scenes but with Kurosawa, he expounded on the battle scenes (blood and all…) probably to emphasize more the whole preoccupation of the film.
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Posted by: Raymon Androckitis

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