Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Akira Kurosawa sets up the shot of Toshiro Mifune’s death in Throne of Blood (1957) (via) “In order to write scripts, you must first study the great novels and dramas of the world. You must consider why they are great. Where does the emotion come from that you feel as you read them? What degree of passion did the author have to have, what level of meticulousness did he have to command, in order to portray the characters and events as he did? You must read thoroughly, to the point where you can grasp all these things.” -Kurosawa, Something Like an Autobiography 

Akira Kurosawa sets up the shot of Toshiro Mifune’s death in Throne of Blood (1957) (via)

“In order to write scripts, you must first study the great novels and dramas of the world. You must consider why they are great. Where does the emotion come from that you feel as you read them? What degree of passion did the author have to have, what level of meticulousness did he have to command, in order to portray the characters and events as he did? You must read thoroughly, to the point where you can grasp all these things.”

-Kurosawa, Something Like an Autobiography 

Isuzu Yamada as Asaji/Lady Macbeth in Throne of Blood (1957, dir. Akira Kurosawa) “Out, damn’d spot! out, I say! What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” (via)

Isuzu Yamada as Asaji/Lady Macbeth in Throne of Blood (1957, dir. Akira Kurosawa)

“Out, damn’d spot! out, I say! What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”

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Throne of Blood (1957, dir. Akira Kurosawa) (via)

Throne of Blood (1957, dir. Akira Kurosawa) (via)