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ChapotraphouseSeven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Starring Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima and Yukiko Shimazaki, it tells the story of a village of farmers who hire seven samurai to help defend their village from bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops. Influential in world cinema, Seven Samurai is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made.
Kurosawa and Hashimoto researched the Edo period for stories to adapt and came across an account of samurai defending farmers from bandits. Together with Oguni, the screenwriters spent over six weeks writing the script and creating detailed plans for each of the film's characters. Produced by Toho, the film spent three months in pre-production casting and location scouting. Filming began on May 27, 1953 and took place on set at Toho Studios, and on location in Shizuoka and Kanagawa Prefectures. Mid-way through production, the film ran out of money. Toho eventually funded Samurai to a total of ¥210 million,[a] making it the most expensive Japanese film made at the time. For the film's final battle, Kurosawa innovated the use of a multi-camera setup and telephoto lenses to adjust audience perception. Filming wrapped in 1954 after 148 working days.
Seven Samurai was released in Japan on April 26, 1954, with a runtime of 207 minutes. The film was recut before entering the Venice Film Festival. At Venice, Kurosawa won the Silver Lion for direction, and the film was distributed in the United States by Columbia Pictures in November 1956, where it was recut again. The film grossed ¥290 million in ticket sales in Japan[b] making it the highest-grossing film of that year, though due to its large production cost, it was not highly profitable. In the United States, the film grossed $145,800 in 1956 and 1957.[c] The film received a mixed critical response in Japan, but a generally positive response in the US. Reviewers praised the story and acting but criticized the film's length and attitude towards the farmers. American reviews compared the film to Western movies. Samurai was nominated for two Academy Awards and three BAFTAs, but won none.
In the decades since its release, scholars and reviewers have praised the film as a masterpiece. Seven Samurai has been influential among Western filmmakers, with its story and approach to action remade and reiterated numerous times, most notably in the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven. Seven Samurai also influenced other media, including anime and video games. Scholarly analysis of the film has looked at it through a humanistic and formalistic lens. Discussions focus on the morality and heroism of the samurai, showing their relationship to class and the environment. In addition to allegorical readings, scholars have also looked at the film's cinematography, use of music, and Seven Samurai's place within the jidaigeki genre.
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Sorry I will NOT be going to anything named 'xxxxx and sip' it sounds so... like 'paint n sip' or 'chess n sip' to describe activity+ wine uchhhhh like I'm already getting dysphonia from the word sip but also I'm not going because novody jnvited me
Time to start your own 'bean and chug' event
I wouldn't be invited to my on bean n belch
How it feels to be a gay man on estrogen
Fighting the urge to make a tiny faced Charlie Kirk in Tomodachi Life
Bluesky's really coming in to it's own as a social media platform, it even has it's own type of guy
Can a platform be even more 'confused centrist' than reddit though? Is that even possible?
actual Pokemon fans look at thousand hour shiny grinds and say that anyone who wants to skip that bullshit is cheating.
Most shiny hunts take like an hour these days
I saw a video on the drama on full odds shiny hunting, and it was informative on understanding rare values but I don't think I will ever get the value of full odds with all the avaliable methods that cuts down on valuable time resources within the getting the actual pokemon without outright genning it.
Uhhh yeh could i get uhhh an order of large frogs thanks
fuck landlords
fuck cars
Sounds great. I make food all day
I wish this were me, at least I could afford stuff, and not be a loser
I want a job like this so badly. Like just to try it out. I've never had a job where I am allowed to sit down for an extended period, let alone one where that's the default.
Is the actual work you have to do tedious and annoying or is it not bad?
I wish I could get a job like that. Any office job, really.
Plants are called things like 'fiddlehead'
Birds are called things like 'musty cock thruster'
Mushrooms are called things like 'spotted kill you now'
This is basic biology
why are bird enthusiasts so horny?
'liver liquifier' that's a mushroom. Round-rumped buttbiter. That's a bird. 'Squelch foot' that's a plant. It's really quite simple
white man's footprint
Democrats in my life are behaving very normal about the prospect of a newsome nomination in 2028 🥰
Extremely normal, not incredibly weird and off putting whatsoever
challenge
make allegation about me and oi will amnswer for itt
You like me
You are a British soccer hooligan
dang okay
go Liverpool
Anybody here successfully transition out of a software developer role into something else? Only been doing it professionally for 3 years but starting to realize that I don't think this is for me. Honestly thinking of just switching fields entirely and going into healthcare or something.
Just think laterally and broaden out that resume to talk about 'working in multi-disciplinary teams' and 'engaging with internal and external stakeholders'.
Focus less on the tech side of what you did and more on how you worked with other people.
I've known plenty of software devs that have transitioned so I'm sure you'll do fine.
RLM did a re:view on the Crank movies and since Remember Shuffle talked about Crank a bunch of weeks ago so it's easy to compare what people who actually think about art versus RLM normie-slop who just go "remember scene" and guess about reasons why things happened during the movie production. Not even doing any real research anymore, just coasting on info they heard from commentary tracks 12+ years ago.
haven't watched RLM in a while
glad I never hear Richard Evans's "laugh" anymore
He has the voice of an angel and the laugh of a child.
his voice hurts my ears
Next noise show im playing is probably gonna be an outdoor one at the skatepark. Im gonna figure out a sampler/looper setup so I can spam the Special Trick Sound from Tony Hawk.
I am on indeed and the government is posting a job for the navy for extra medical staff to handle injured navy personnel.
I kinda wanna apply.
Take it and do the "don't poke there if it hurts then" routine on everyone.
Okay I found a new music downloader, Arcod! It pulls from Qobuz and embeds lyrics. Only annoyance is I have to manually tag explicit songs but that's no big deal for now. Now I just gotta redownload everything... might leave that for next weekend
Beatwood Mac and theyre abkut jackin it
Yo that movie is p good.
I kinda want to be a samurai. I feel like I could wander around with a sword and make things better. I am kinda sad that samurai were landlord/cops though
Kikuchiyo managed pretty well, plus gave an amazing monologue on class. Was a bit eye opening in my baby leftist days.
the death of the harpsichord is a modern tragedy
Anti Beethoven Aktion
It's weird that GISM of all bands predicted 2026 with Endless Blockades for the Pussyfooter
Every time you say you hate mowed lawns you know what you're really saying? "I hate birds and i hate it when they have an easy to access feast"
Find a partner who loves you as much as the birds love my yard after it's mowed
I can't say either of those things because I'm sneezing too much from the cut grass
you're going to be sneezing anyway do you know how much pollen is in the air? god I wish we had the volcel police but for plants
Fair point I'm mainlining antihistamines already
are you asking for the stuff they keep behind the counter with the pseudoephedrine in it bc i'm pretty sure that works way better
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
I was just hate watching a Victims of Communism video on YouTube and I put it in miniplayer/Picture in Picture on my phone and I got a notification "Miniplayer is not supported on VIDEOS FOR CHILDREN"
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Binge watched both seasons of Pantheon after seeing a gif of one of the main characters throwing a black hole at Steve Jobs
I had forgotten to watch that. Ty.
Walking around my kitchen in my underwear on my day off muttering shit like "ginger CURRIED peas and carrots, with a cinnamon/ginger/allspice/etc apple and plantain casserole, and some roasted cabbage, yeah now THAT'S a menu"
New pink guy just dropped
it is april 26 and stalin saved the world from fascism
It is honestly the most Donald Trump thing ever to stage a false flag assassination attempt just to get the fucking ballroom built
So like, whats the vibe. Does the NSA have a handle of these guys preformed they cna just activate whenever or do they just fake it completely and the guy is just an agent they will send to Iraq for a few years and send him back with a new identity later?
More like adenosine "why try" phosphate mirite folks
Guess who started late this year but just bought some pepper plants? this guy
I got a shishito plant, thai chilis, and red ghost peppers, the plan is I'm going to produce so much pain powder and my Turkish coworker is gonna love me. Im going to make the spiciest ffucking harissa and it's gonna blow her tits off
I live near a college and they're all moving out for the end of the school year, which means its Free Shit Weekend! I got a bunch of new furniture and a functioning XBox One. Are there any good games on the Xbox One?
Are there any good games on the Xbox One?
original and 360 back compat i guess. otherwise nothing that isn't also on windows, and also microsoft gaming division is BDS so don't give them money
me and gf are watching handmaid's tail atm and it seems like a decent show. I finally found the part of the world building where the author outs themselves as a lib though: the united states being the good guy coz they're a govt in exile lmaoooo.
Impressive how they wrote the epicenter of modern misogyny into the smol bean underdog that cannot be held accountable for its crimes.
American dystopian fiction is so ass - what if all this terrible stuff happened but, gasp, the united states was somehow innocent!!!! phew I'm glad we're not like any of those evil countries.
Margaret Atwood is Canadian
Was that in the books? Isn't it a Canadian author?
I know she's like a red Tory but I have a hard time thinking some Canadian red Tory feminist in the '90s or whenever the book was written would be like removed Bill Clinton in exile to the misogynist US dystopia."
Edit: It's '85, so removed Ronald Reagan I guess.
There is that, and
::: spoiler vague 'spoiler' For some reason the "undo" a bunch of progression of the plotline I think in season 2 and it pissed me off and I stopped watching. :::
Thinking of the king of the hill episode where hank and friends were scabs to fire fighters and ended up burning down the fire house unintentionally a good episode to show how even people you're supposed to related to can be scabs and incompetent
Stable genius on stable genius violence is so sad
Mod on a game piracy subreddit is using ChatGPT as a way to "lessen their work load explaining things to people" when, in actuality, they're just arguing with people with it.
Computer flame this nerd for me
Buying different matcha and all the stuff to prepare it would be expensive but would stop me from spending like $10 a drink so it would pay itself off eventually
i've never had matcha but i love green tea and i appreciate that matcha is suuuper green 💚
Matcha sucks ass. It's just more green tea than usually.
Only popular with hipsters who liked espresso before it became popular and thus they can't drink it anymore. But since they can't taste something without 8 cups of cream and an entire sugar plantation they need to need to create jet-fuel tea to water down.
If you like green tea, youd probably like matcha
Strawberry matcha lattes are trending for good reason right now and theyre so good
Listening to the Misfits collections over the last day.
What the hell was the reputation of this band back in the day? It’s horror-elvis doo wop songs, but also a song about the rat in a hotrod
It’s like the dumbest, chuddiest guys in New Jersey accidentally made something with at least a definable sense of taste. It’s fascinating
I completely agree. I am an expert on punk and th Misfits are a weird anomaly. They started in 76 and broke up in like 82 and were mostly a local band but it seems their records got around so there was a bit of mystery around them for the younger dudes who started early hardcore Dave Vanian from The Damned dressed like a vampire, The Ramones did fast do wop, The Cramps did both, so cheesy horror elements werent entirely uncommon in the early days. Their reputation as people was thst they were violent assholes, but that was the norm for 80s American punk. Samhain was actually way bigger than the Misfits were in their times
That fits.
It’s funny when you look at who they are and it’s a weird combination of jocks and theatre kids
They made Halloween but Latin and it just sounds like a Latin 1 student drunk reading and it’s bad but charmingly bad
The objective is to weaponize gamers by convincing them they and their buddies can do raids on data centers to get all the graphics cards they like as loot. The locals won't report them just go in and fucking take it these data centers probably only have like 3 people at most inside
Chef boyardee and hot pockets > little Caesars
nah hotpockets are horrible depression food, little caesars is just frugal and great for the price
If Little Caesers was communist all of you would be pretending to like it. I'm just gunna' say it. Instead, you're calling it Little Czarist's and being insulting.
What if it was Big Caeser's and it was the people's pizza?
Nvm
Good news: repasted the server laptop with PTM7950 and realized I can upload through the cockpit file browser
Bad news: seems like the music ripping scene is imploding so I can't redownload everything with proper quality, tags, and lyrics like I wanted...
If you can just find something with good quality, then you can use beets to automatically download the tags and lyrics. That's what I've been doing to build a music collection.
::: spoiler Quick guide if you're interested Install python if you don't have it, then run these commands:
pip install beets[lyrics,fetchart,scrub,lastgenre]
beet config -e
Copy and paste this in:
directory: ~/Music/
library: ~/.config/beets/musiclibrary.db
musicbrainz:
genres: yes
lyrics:
sources: [lrclib, genius, tekstowo]
synced: yes
beet import folder/with/music
It'll copy the files to the new location (~/Music/ in this case) while keeping the original intact. You can change a bunch of configs and add other plugins to do a whole bunch of stuff with your music. Real nice tool. :::
Hmmm intriguing
oh meow?
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A truly great movie.
Every frame a painting
I've been watching Ran again from his late career and the drip is unbelievable
One of my absolute favorites
What if it was seven eleven samurai
Lol
sad about some meaningless tumblr bs but it is compounded by the last two days just being awful for me.
A small update. I felt better about the tumblr stuff after talking with a friend about it. Still a bit of a bummer overall but it felt good how a little chat lifted up my mood.
Slowly recovering from hangover
The only government agency I fw is the US postal services for delivering my 💌 I got a lot more to send
send more
believe me I will at only 78 cents a stamp you best believe I'm gonna send a lot this year
Elsa's parents abused her by locking her in her room her whole childhood and telling her to suppress her emotions. She should be glad they're dead
This is explained in the TV Show you casual.
Sorry, my girlfriend hasn't shown the kids the TV show yet. We've been watching all the shorts and they have to keep acknowledging Anna and Elsa have never done anything together because Elsa was in her room all the time
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