I'll put the search strings in bold, these are the beginning of a quote, and the link(s), the ulr(s), which are highlighted too, will be the quote(s) end(s)...
hmmph...three difficult movies to write about....so, so...I'll be brief!...take away from last post, Riddick and Boba Fett samurai, had me looking for old Japanese samurai movies on youtube...once, years ago, the little theater in Balboa did like a whole summer of just Samurai movies...I had never seen Japanese movies, and was totally taken...in all of them, Nature is one of the characters, that, and there are no chairs, takes one into an entirely different culture...anyway, I did find one, Rashomon movie 1950, and I may have seen it...it just has three sets...a gravel courtyard, which is a court!, a ruined temple gate, and a clearing in a forest...there was something about the courtyard that was in Fellini's Satyricon....a borrowing, but I'm uncertain...Rashomon has been very influential to movie makers...
Rashomon effect
A useful demonstration of this principle in scientific understanding can be found in Karl G. Heider's work on ethnography.[3] Heider used the term to refer to the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
It is named for Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, in which a murder involving four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.
Rashomon effect
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I found myself curious about the forest in Rashomon...it begins with a woodcutter walking along, and I could see it was a mix of conifers and deciduous trees, much like the Valley, and then there's a scene with the bandit sleeping up against a large Cedar tree...'oh, it's just like the Valley!'...and after watching the movie, I was off on a web hunt to find that forest....I did google search 'Japanese forest'...and that, that took me down a grim forest path!...on a google search, there's a menu selection 'images'...I clicked on images, and of course it brought up image after image of the Suicide Forest, just like in the movie The Forest, when the girl, Sara, does the self same forest search on her laptop like I did!...sort of wonder if the whole plot of the movie is derived from the producer's web searching out this forest...this forest isn't the one in Rashomon, this one is on the slopes of Mt. Fuji, and famous, or infamous, for being a magnet for suicides, like the Golden Gate bridge....a youtube search will bring up a documentary about it, which is very good...one of the forest rangers leads a cameraman about and explains the circumstances that bring despondent people to the forest...The Forest movie is a horror movie...I don't watch horror movies...too scary...and it was with much trepidation that I rolled all the way up to La Mirada just to see this movie, and the forest in it...I wasn't certain then that it wasn't the forest in Rashomon...and I sat through okay, and admission was just two dollars!...and it isn't a horrible horror movie as modern horror movies go!...jump out at you scary, yes, but a ride through the Haunted Mansion is almost as spooky...when the Park was closed, I would deliver repaired 'boogies' to the Mansion, and that was kind of scary, if one dwelled on things!...there are trailers and clips of The Forest movie on youtube, and it is interesting to compare the comments to them, and to the Suicide Forest Japan documentary...the documentary comments lament that the The Forest movie was even made, that it is disrespectful...and that's true!...and it is what Hollywood does, all the time!...so much is messed up because of our patronage of disrespectful media!, I'd say...movie has a good twist though, and even its kind of own take on the 'Rashomon effect'...
there's more of such disrespect in the movie Gods of Egypt...I saw this last night, after a no luck trip to Petsmart to find a ramp to help Maya my dog get up into the White Truck's bed...local movie theater is next to Petsmart...paid like 12 bucks...and was only one in the mini theater to watch!...put the plush chair in full recline, adjusted my three D glasses, and wth!...Hollywood has made more than a few outlandish movies about Ancient Egypt, and this one goes beyond even Katie Perry' 'Dark Horse'!...much fun to watch!...God's of Egypt too!:)...movie title is changed to Kings of Egypt for showings in Egypt, which is a kind of Hollywood bowing to another culture's foibles...but I don't know if any modern story tellers have gotten anywhere close to the story tellers of Ancient Egypt...I mean the whole civilization was like a theme park with everyone in character, down to their sandals!...and we haven't a clue what they were about, I'd say!...Plutarch writes a bit about the story of Osiris and Set and Horus, but by his time, it had many versions...it's like a four or five thousand year old story...Plutarch tries to offer a key to how to understand it, like an eclipse of the sun might be turned into a story of a dragon swallowing it, and such...
anyway, anyway, I found the forest in Rashomon...it was filmed in the Primeval Forest in Japan near Nara...this was set aside as a sacred Forest/Grove in 900AD or so for the Temple thereabout...and hasn't changed since, so it is all old growth...it is filled with all kinds of fauna and flora...even has a sacred Deer park, much like the one in India...
one last curio...the Gate in Rashomon...I thought it might be a real gate, but it was a set made for the movie...
Rashomon
The gate was growing larger and larger in my mind’s eye. I was location-scouting in the ancient capital of Kyoto for Rashomon, my eleventh-century period film.
Akira Kurosawa on Rashomon
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/196-akira-kurosawa-on-rashomon
Even a cursory look at the Shinto temple in Nara, and one will see the similarity to ancient Egyptian temples...a monumental gate at the east...the sacred sanctuary in the west...don't know but Kurosawa's movie set half ruined Gate, with the Rain falling, might be the best ever!...the ninth gate, or was it the tenth?, in Gods of Egypt movie, a bit much...but it did get the Feather of Maat into the mix!...Kurosawa did it with an abandon baby in a basket at the Gate in the clearing Rain...
:)
oh, the reflected closing credits in Gods.. are cool...
DavidDavid
By Akira Kurosawa
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/196-akira-kurosawa-on-rashomon
Even a cursory look at the Shinto temple in Nara, and one will see the similarity to ancient Egyptian temples...a monumental gate at the east...the sacred sanctuary in the west...don't know but Kurosawa's movie set half ruined Gate, with the Rain falling, might be the best ever!...the ninth gate, or was it the tenth?, in Gods of Egypt movie, a bit much...but it did get the Feather of Maat into the mix!...Kurosawa did it with an abandon baby in a basket at the Gate in the clearing Rain...
:)
oh, the reflected closing credits in Gods.. are cool...
DavidDavid
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