On Monday, August 25, 2008 at 5:48:47 PM UTC-7, LMC Society wrote:
I saw Cacaoyannis's Trojan Women, and I mostly agree with John Simon's critical review of it.
Anyway, the scenes in the ruined castle in Ran may have taken some
pointers from this mooie.
Also, notice how Ran begins? Hidetora is hunting an old boar, so in a
way, it's like he's hunting himself.
Now, consider the opening of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. James
Coburn shoots chickens, and that is intercut with young men shooting
Pat Garrett. So, shooting chickens is like Garrett shooting himself.
Both Pat Garrett and Ran are about old men who think they can hang up
the past and retire safely. To be sure, Garrett loses his faith/trust
in youth and kills Billy--only to be killed by other young(er) ones. Hidetora, on the other hand, trusts the young ones to respect his old
ass but his arse is shot full of arrows.
https://collider.com/akira-kurosawa-movie-ran/
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