Expert answer:Seven Samurai, Short Posting – film homework

Answer & Explanation:Watch the shot in Seven Samurai that starts 2:06:52. Discuss the mise-en-scène with the help of the frames in the file titled “Posting 2: Images”. Use the terms and concepts introduced in class notes. Start by describing the first frame. Pay special attention to the positioning of objects and actors, lighting, and depth of field.Discuss the symbolic importance of these elements in the shot. Note especially the relationship between the characters.Continue to describe the differences introduced in the second and third frames. How do the formal elements of the mise-en-scène convey messages specific to the scene and to the film?Talk about these frame in terms of mise-en-scene. Not the plot summary, talk about in terms of light, shapes, lines, vision… describe the first frame and then the affect of change of mise-en-scene as you work through these 3 frames. 200-300 words. I will post the link of film later.posting_2__images__1_.pdfclass_notes.docx
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Samurai: – Warrior class in pre-modern Japan -Composition and role vary over time Retainer: a warrior pledging service to a feudal lord
Emergence of the Samurai: – Rise to power 12th c. CE
-Establishment of shogunate(military government) in 1192 – symbolic power with
emperor, government in hands of shogun and feudal lords.
– Ascendance of disciplined warrior culture
The Shogunates :
– Kamakura, 1192- 1333
– Ashikaga, 1338-1573
◼ Cultural influence of Zen Buddhism
◼ Chaos and warfare of Sengoku period (1467-1568)
– Tokugawa (Edo), 1603-1867
Tokugawa samurai
– Closed caste
– Serve as civil bureaucrats rather than warriors
– Erosion of economic and social status
– Eclipse of austere “samurai values”
The end of the samurai
– Meiji restoration, 1868
– Abolishment of feudal economic structures and social privileges
– Last gasp: the Satsuma revolt, 1877
Bushido: “The Way of the Warrior”
– Unwritten code of the samurai
– Skill in the martial arts
– Military virtues – courage, discipline, stoicism
– Confucianism – courtesy, self-cultivation, group over individual
– Zen Buddhism – contemplation, detachment
Loyalty – “Devotion to feudal lord”
The sword – “soul of the samurai”
The way of the Warrior: the Soul of Japan?
Historicizing bushido:
– Pre-tokugawa (pre-17th-century) – unwritten, systematized
– Tokugawa (1603-1867) codification – elements of preservation, nostalgia
– Meiji period (1868-1912) – bushido for the Japanese people, not the (entinct)
samural
– Loyalty to the emperor, not the feudal lord
– Nitobe inazo (1862-1933), bushido: the soul of japan, 1899 – chivalry and universal
ethical values
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Militarism and world war 2 – patriotism and wartime propaganda – martial virtues,
Japanese essence, sacrifice for the emperor
The post-war crisis – are Japan’s martial traditions forever tainted by the association
with wartime militarism
What is a samurai?
The seven samurai: varied traits, skills, and personalities, implicit comparison with the
forty-seven Ronin.
The samurai as a social group: – relationship with the peasants – mirrored in reverse by
the bandits
Apprenticeship and initiation: – the noble youth katsushiro – the peasant kikuchiyo
Mise-en-scene: the arrangement of performers and properties on a stage for a theatrical
or filmic production.
Why draw the lines in shot?
1. Because filmmakers draw these lines, at least in their mind: we back-engineer the
film and understand how directors work.
2. Because film, as other forms of art, is a code to be deciphered. Like art historians,
film critics regard formal analysis as a key to the work’s symbolism and meaning.
Deep focus:
– multiple stories taking place at the same time
– Mise-en-scene is complementary to montage, or editing.
– Different visual elements can be shot separately and combined in editing, where
one shot follows another, or they can combine into the same shot.
– Kurosawa, like Kenji Mizoguchi and Orson Wells before him, is known for using
deep focus, a technique that uses a long-focus lens to cram many distinct elements
into a single frame.
Deep focus is pictorially rich.
Deep focus allows to add more detail in the background and foreground.
Deep focus adds dynamics.
Deep focus allows to tell two stories in one shot.
Deep focus can accentuate battle dynamics.
Deep focus requires good camera skills and knowledge of lighting, to keep all objects
equally in focus and equally lit.
Since deep focus frames lack dimensionality, viewers might have trouble telling
distances btw objects or characters. Kurosawa compensates through mise-en-scene, by
placing landmarks, such as fences and walls to help the eye establish depth.
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