I'm a _huge_ Kurosawa film. The word "genius" gets tossed around so much but I think he really qualified. Ran is excellent, but it did not affect me the way Kagemusha did. (I was so distraught by the end of Kagemusha that it was two years before I could watch another Kurosawa film. (It was in 1981, a very different time and I was a different person, but it really is an overwhelming ending montage.)
Anyway, Hidden Fortress is the film most often cited as inspiring Lucas in the structure of Star Wars but it was not evident to me, even after watching the films back-to-back.
And now, having read the linked poem I am so very pleased. "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" is my favoritest poem ever ever ever. I've been known to ask people out by quoting "Let us go then, you and I."
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I'm a _huge_ Kurosawa film. The word "genius" gets tossed around so much but I think he really qualified. Ran is excellent, but it did not affect me the way Kagemusha did. (I was so distraught by the end of Kagemusha that it was two years before I could watch another Kurosawa film. (It was in 1981, a very different time and I was a different person, but it really is an overwhelming ending montage.)
Anyway, Hidden Fortress is the film most often cited as inspiring Lucas in the structure of Star Wars but it was not evident to me, even after watching the films back-to-back.
And now, having read the linked poem I am so very pleased. "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" is my favoritest poem ever ever ever. I've been known to ask people out by quoting "Let us go then, you and I."
But not recently, because really nobody gets it.