• Re: Ikiru Ikiru Ikiru

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to Mike Henley on Sat Oct 16 15:41:50 2021
    On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 8:59:48 PM UTC-7, Mike Henley wrote:
    Having watched, over the past few weeks, some of Hollywood's
    celebrated movies over the past few years (well, the ones that come to
    mind include Happiness and Magnolia... *gag*), I watched two movies
    tonight; Shawshank redemption and Ikiru.
    I guess the fact that I watched Ikiru says something about not being
    fully satisfied by shawshank redemption, which was one of those
    superficial and fluffy
    inspiring/moving/touching-inspirational/motivational movies that
    hollywood seems to mass produce like cheese curd about values like "hope"/Belief/Faith/You-Can-Do-It(TM) ... etc. (I can't believe that
    its makers even dared to follow it up with The Green Mile *gag*). At
    least it didn't suck as much as those other ones that set out to be
    artsy but ended up being awfully pretentious and unbearably
    unwatchable. Anyhow, As for Ikiru, I watched it and then watched it
    again with the commentary running! Oh boy, I really should've gone to
    bed much earlier, but yes, that's how good and compelling it was, and
    the difference in filmmaking between it and Hollywood's recent "cool"
    stuff is phenomenal. What art, what craft, what maturity, what
    experience, what talent, what beauty, what simplicity, what
    sophistication, what zen.
    Hollywood seems to make wanna-be artsy movies for the wanna-be artsy
    crowds. I'm now bothered at hearing that Dreamworks will actually
    remake Ikiru and am quite annoyed, especially so that they signed on
    Jim Sheridan for it; I disliked his In America movie (*gag*) and
    thought it was very mediocre. I can already imagine scenes from the
    Hollywood and Sheridan version (*gag gag gag*); in fact, I know
    already that I won't be wasting 2 or 3 hours of my life watching it.

    The following asks:

    - ...But how can someone who’s been already dead inside for decades suddenly flip a switch and allow the sheer exhilaration of existence to enter his withered soul?

    https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/akira-kurosawa/all-of-akira-kurosawas-films-ranked/#1-seven-samurai

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to Mike Henley on Thu Jan 6 08:43:48 2022
    On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 8:59:48 PM UTC-7, Mike Henley wrote:
    Having watched, over the past few weeks, some of Hollywood's
    celebrated movies over the past few years (well, the ones that come to
    mind include Happiness and Magnolia... *gag*), I watched two movies
    tonight; Shawshank redemption and Ikiru.
    I guess the fact that I watched Ikiru says something about not being
    fully satisfied by shawshank redemption, which was one of those
    superficial and fluffy
    inspiring/moving/touching-inspirational/motivational movies that
    hollywood seems to mass produce like cheese curd about values like "hope"/Belief/Faith/You-Can-Do-It(TM) ... etc. (I can't believe that
    its makers even dared to follow it up with The Green Mile *gag*). At
    least it didn't suck as much as those other ones that set out to be
    artsy but ended up being awfully pretentious and unbearably
    unwatchable. Anyhow, As for Ikiru, I watched it and then watched it
    again with the commentary running! Oh boy, I really should've gone to
    bed much earlier, but yes, that's how good and compelling it was, and
    the difference in filmmaking between it and Hollywood's recent "cool"
    stuff is phenomenal. What art, what craft, what maturity, what
    experience, what talent, what beauty, what simplicity, what
    sophistication, what zen.
    Hollywood seems to make wanna-be artsy movies for the wanna-be artsy
    crowds. I'm now bothered at hearing that Dreamworks will actually
    remake Ikiru and am quite annoyed, especially so that they signed on
    Jim Sheridan for it; I disliked his In America movie (*gag*) and
    thought it was very mediocre. I can already imagine scenes from the
    Hollywood and Sheridan version (*gag gag gag*); in fact, I know
    already that I won't be wasting 2 or 3 hours of my life watching it.

    The following recent article reminded me of IKIRU:

    - Despite my battling cancer, I still have a role to play right now. I just want to make my life relevant somehow....

    https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/kurosawas-ikiru-and-the-current-spate-of-resignation-among-professionals/

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to Mike Henley on Fri Jan 21 14:34:28 2022
    On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 8:59:48 PM UTC-7, Mike Henley wrote:
    Having watched, over the past few weeks, some of Hollywood's
    celebrated movies over the past few years (well, the ones that come to
    mind include Happiness and Magnolia... *gag*), I watched two movies
    tonight; Shawshank redemption and Ikiru.
    I guess the fact that I watched Ikiru says something about not being
    fully satisfied by shawshank redemption, which was one of those
    superficial and fluffy
    inspiring/moving/touching-inspirational/motivational movies that
    hollywood seems to mass produce like cheese curd about values like "hope"/Belief/Faith/You-Can-Do-It(TM) ... etc. (I can't believe that
    its makers even dared to follow it up with The Green Mile *gag*). At
    least it didn't suck as much as those other ones that set out to be
    artsy but ended up being awfully pretentious and unbearably
    unwatchable. Anyhow, As for Ikiru, I watched it and then watched it
    again with the commentary running! Oh boy, I really should've gone to
    bed much earlier, but yes, that's how good and compelling it was, and
    the difference in filmmaking between it and Hollywood's recent "cool"
    stuff is phenomenal. What art, what craft, what maturity, what
    experience, what talent, what beauty, what simplicity, what
    sophistication, what zen.
    Hollywood seems to make wanna-be artsy movies for the wanna-be artsy
    crowds. I'm now bothered at hearing that Dreamworks will actually
    remake Ikiru and am quite annoyed, especially so that they signed on
    Jim Sheridan for it; I disliked his In America movie (*gag*) and
    thought it was very mediocre. I can already imagine scenes from the
    Hollywood and Sheridan version (*gag gag gag*); in fact, I know
    already that I won't be wasting 2 or 3 hours of my life watching it.

    British remake:

    https://deadline.com/2022/01/sundance-review-bill-nighy-in-living-the-british-remake-of-akira-kurosawas-classic-ikiru-1234917000/

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Sun Jan 23 19:51:30 2022
    On Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 7:46:38 PM UTC-8, gggg gggg wrote:
    On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 8:59:48 PM UTC-7, Mike Henley wrote:
    Having watched, over the past few weeks, some of Hollywood's
    celebrated movies over the past few years (well, the ones that come to
    mind include Happiness and Magnolia... *gag*), I watched two movies tonight; Shawshank redemption and Ikiru.
    I guess the fact that I watched Ikiru says something about not being
    fully satisfied by shawshank redemption, which was one of those
    superficial and fluffy
    inspiring/moving/touching-inspirational/motivational movies that
    hollywood seems to mass produce like cheese curd about values like "hope"/Belief/Faith/You-Can-Do-It(TM) ... etc. (I can't believe that
    its makers even dared to follow it up with The Green Mile *gag*). At
    least it didn't suck as much as those other ones that set out to be
    artsy but ended up being awfully pretentious and unbearably
    unwatchable. Anyhow, As for Ikiru, I watched it and then watched it
    again with the commentary running! Oh boy, I really should've gone to
    bed much earlier, but yes, that's how good and compelling it was, and
    the difference in filmmaking between it and Hollywood's recent "cool"
    stuff is phenomenal. What art, what craft, what maturity, what
    experience, what talent, what beauty, what simplicity, what
    sophistication, what zen.
    Hollywood seems to make wanna-be artsy movies for the wanna-be artsy crowds. I'm now bothered at hearing that Dreamworks will actually
    remake Ikiru and am quite annoyed, especially so that they signed on
    Jim Sheridan for it; I disliked his In America movie (*gag*) and
    thought it was very mediocre. I can already imagine scenes from the Hollywood and Sheridan version (*gag gag gag*); in fact, I know
    already that I won't be wasting 2 or 3 hours of my life watching it.
    Does this apply to IKIRU?:

    There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

    Roger Ebert

    And what about this?:

    - I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

    Roger Ebert

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to Mike Henley on Sun Jan 23 19:46:37 2022
    On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 8:59:48 PM UTC-7, Mike Henley wrote:
    Having watched, over the past few weeks, some of Hollywood's
    celebrated movies over the past few years (well, the ones that come to
    mind include Happiness and Magnolia... *gag*), I watched two movies
    tonight; Shawshank redemption and Ikiru.
    I guess the fact that I watched Ikiru says something about not being
    fully satisfied by shawshank redemption, which was one of those
    superficial and fluffy
    inspiring/moving/touching-inspirational/motivational movies that
    hollywood seems to mass produce like cheese curd about values like "hope"/Belief/Faith/You-Can-Do-It(TM) ... etc. (I can't believe that
    its makers even dared to follow it up with The Green Mile *gag*). At
    least it didn't suck as much as those other ones that set out to be
    artsy but ended up being awfully pretentious and unbearably
    unwatchable. Anyhow, As for Ikiru, I watched it and then watched it
    again with the commentary running! Oh boy, I really should've gone to
    bed much earlier, but yes, that's how good and compelling it was, and
    the difference in filmmaking between it and Hollywood's recent "cool"
    stuff is phenomenal. What art, what craft, what maturity, what
    experience, what talent, what beauty, what simplicity, what
    sophistication, what zen.
    Hollywood seems to make wanna-be artsy movies for the wanna-be artsy
    crowds. I'm now bothered at hearing that Dreamworks will actually
    remake Ikiru and am quite annoyed, especially so that they signed on
    Jim Sheridan for it; I disliked his In America movie (*gag*) and
    thought it was very mediocre. I can already imagine scenes from the
    Hollywood and Sheridan version (*gag gag gag*); in fact, I know
    already that I won't be wasting 2 or 3 hours of my life watching it.

    Does this apply to IKIRU?:

    There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

    Roger Ebert

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to Mike Henley on Wed Feb 9 23:46:25 2022
    On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 5:59:48 PM UTC-10, Mike Henley wrote:
    Having watched, over the past few weeks, some of Hollywood's
    celebrated movies over the past few years (well, the ones that come to
    mind include Happiness and Magnolia... *gag*), I watched two movies
    tonight; Shawshank redemption and Ikiru.
    I guess the fact that I watched Ikiru says something about not being
    fully satisfied by shawshank redemption, which was one of those
    superficial and fluffy
    inspiring/moving/touching-inspirational/motivational movies that
    hollywood seems to mass produce like cheese curd about values like "hope"/Belief/Faith/You-Can-Do-It(TM) ... etc. (I can't believe that
    its makers even dared to follow it up with The Green Mile *gag*). At
    least it didn't suck as much as those other ones that set out to be
    artsy but ended up being awfully pretentious and unbearably
    unwatchable. Anyhow, As for Ikiru, I watched it and then watched it
    again with the commentary running! Oh boy, I really should've gone to
    bed much earlier, but yes, that's how good and compelling it was, and
    the difference in filmmaking between it and Hollywood's recent "cool"
    stuff is phenomenal. What art, what craft, what maturity, what
    experience, what talent, what beauty, what simplicity, what
    sophistication, what zen.
    Hollywood seems to make wanna-be artsy movies for the wanna-be artsy
    crowds. I'm now bothered at hearing that Dreamworks will actually
    remake Ikiru and am quite annoyed, especially so that they signed on
    Jim Sheridan for it; I disliked his In America movie (*gag*) and
    thought it was very mediocre. I can already imagine scenes from the
    Hollywood and Sheridan version (*gag gag gag*); in fact, I know
    already that I won't be wasting 2 or 3 hours of my life watching it.

    https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/jan/27/picture-perfect-1952s-ikiru-is-one-of-cinemas-grea/

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Mon Sep 5 07:23:23 2022
    On Friday, January 21, 2022 at 2:34:30 PM UTC-8, gggg gggg wrote:
    On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 8:59:48 PM UTC-7, Mike Henley wrote:
    Having watched, over the past few weeks, some of Hollywood's
    celebrated movies over the past few years (well, the ones that come to
    mind include Happiness and Magnolia... *gag*), I watched two movies tonight; Shawshank redemption and Ikiru.
    I guess the fact that I watched Ikiru says something about not being
    fully satisfied by shawshank redemption, which was one of those
    superficial and fluffy
    inspiring/moving/touching-inspirational/motivational movies that
    hollywood seems to mass produce like cheese curd about values like "hope"/Belief/Faith/You-Can-Do-It(TM) ... etc. (I can't believe that
    its makers even dared to follow it up with The Green Mile *gag*). At
    least it didn't suck as much as those other ones that set out to be
    artsy but ended up being awfully pretentious and unbearably
    unwatchable. Anyhow, As for Ikiru, I watched it and then watched it
    again with the commentary running! Oh boy, I really should've gone to
    bed much earlier, but yes, that's how good and compelling it was, and
    the difference in filmmaking between it and Hollywood's recent "cool"
    stuff is phenomenal. What art, what craft, what maturity, what
    experience, what talent, what beauty, what simplicity, what
    sophistication, what zen.
    Hollywood seems to make wanna-be artsy movies for the wanna-be artsy crowds. I'm now bothered at hearing that Dreamworks will actually
    remake Ikiru and am quite annoyed, especially so that they signed on
    Jim Sheridan for it; I disliked his In America movie (*gag*) and
    thought it was very mediocre. I can already imagine scenes from the Hollywood and Sheridan version (*gag gag gag*); in fact, I know
    already that I won't be wasting 2 or 3 hours of my life watching it.
    British remake:

    https://deadline.com/2022/01/sundance-review-bill-nighy-in-living-the-british-remake-of-akira-kurosawas-classic-ikiru-1234917000/

    (2022 Youtube upload):

    "LIVING | Teaser Trailer (2022)"

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to Mike Henley on Fri Nov 4 18:17:16 2022
    On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 8:59:48 PM UTC-7, Mike Henley wrote:
    Having watched, over the past few weeks, some of Hollywood's
    celebrated movies over the past few years (well, the ones that come to
    mind include Happiness and Magnolia... *gag*), I watched two movies
    tonight; Shawshank redemption and Ikiru.
    I guess the fact that I watched Ikiru says something about not being
    fully satisfied by shawshank redemption, which was one of those
    superficial and fluffy
    inspiring/moving/touching-inspirational/motivational movies that
    hollywood seems to mass produce like cheese curd about values like "hope"/Belief/Faith/You-Can-Do-It(TM) ... etc. (I can't believe that
    its makers even dared to follow it up with The Green Mile *gag*). At
    least it didn't suck as much as those other ones that set out to be
    artsy but ended up being awfully pretentious and unbearably
    unwatchable. Anyhow, As for Ikiru, I watched it and then watched it
    again with the commentary running! Oh boy, I really should've gone to
    bed much earlier, but yes, that's how good and compelling it was, and
    the difference in filmmaking between it and Hollywood's recent "cool"
    stuff is phenomenal. What art, what craft, what maturity, what
    experience, what talent, what beauty, what simplicity, what
    sophistication, what zen.
    Hollywood seems to make wanna-be artsy movies for the wanna-be artsy
    crowds. I'm now bothered at hearing that Dreamworks will actually
    remake Ikiru and am quite annoyed, especially so that they signed on
    Jim Sheridan for it; I disliked his In America movie (*gag*) and
    thought it was very mediocre. I can already imagine scenes from the
    Hollywood and Sheridan version (*gag gag gag*); in fact, I know
    already that I won't be wasting 2 or 3 hours of my life watching it.

    https://www.ft.com/content/94303dbe-165c-4983-81d8-3ff5e1462b46

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