This is a three hour long black and white film about Samurai's fighting to protect the farmers.
I watched it with subtitles and i didn't find it that entertaining. I don't have anything against black and white films, some of them are absolutely incredible but it does lack the beautiful scenery that is so often shown in Japan.
There was a lot of action and i'm sure a very good story line as well but with an action film like that it really needs to be in colour. The different language makes it hard to appreciate the acting and I don't know any of the actors so I can't compare them but I will always take my hat off to the guys for trying to make a martial arts film in black and white when so much of the action and scenery is missing through lack of colour.
The story goes that this village that has been under attack from bandits recruits seven unemployed Samurai to help them out. Unemployed basically means not that great but from watching their sequences, there is no reason as to why they are unemployed based on skill. Either the choreography is terrible- which it really shouldn't be given that these guys had no special effects and had to do everything as well as they could and couldn't add in any defying gravity moments or other such things that directors like to get in to these types of films. A film with a small plot that focuses around the art of Samurai and purely the work of Samurai.
It's definitely harder to sit there and think 'wow' when something spectacular happens because it just doesn't compare with what we are used to seeing but as we have discussed before, we need to sit back and imagine the effect. When this film was made in 1954 it was probably breathtaking, in 1954 Asia was probably still fairly unknown to most people, certainly it wasn't a journey that we would make on holiday and so this type of trade was becoming the popular thing, people wanted to watch films about this different style of fighting that was breathless and totally different from the British boxing and other types of fighting that were on offer.
I said that I didn't particularly enjoy it and I didn't but to a extent you have to make yourself enjoy it and that is the test of a good film- if you can make yourself enjoy it when you're finding it hard.
I watched it with subtitles and i didn't find it that entertaining. I don't have anything against black and white films, some of them are absolutely incredible but it does lack the beautiful scenery that is so often shown in Japan.
The story goes that this village that has been under attack from bandits recruits seven unemployed Samurai to help them out. Unemployed basically means not that great but from watching their sequences, there is no reason as to why they are unemployed based on skill. Either the choreography is terrible- which it really shouldn't be given that these guys had no special effects and had to do everything as well as they could and couldn't add in any defying gravity moments or other such things that directors like to get in to these types of films. A film with a small plot that focuses around the art of Samurai and purely the work of Samurai.
It's definitely harder to sit there and think 'wow' when something spectacular happens because it just doesn't compare with what we are used to seeing but as we have discussed before, we need to sit back and imagine the effect. When this film was made in 1954 it was probably breathtaking, in 1954 Asia was probably still fairly unknown to most people, certainly it wasn't a journey that we would make on holiday and so this type of trade was becoming the popular thing, people wanted to watch films about this different style of fighting that was breathless and totally different from the British boxing and other types of fighting that were on offer.
I said that I didn't particularly enjoy it and I didn't but to a extent you have to make yourself enjoy it and that is the test of a good film- if you can make yourself enjoy it when you're finding it hard.
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