“En un mundo loco, sólo los locos están cuerdos.”
Fuente: Revolución y cultura, números 1-5. Colaborador Cuba. Consejo Nacional de Cultura. Publicado en 1999. p. 37.
Akira Kurosawa fue uno de los más célebres directores de cine de Japón. Comenzó su carrera con Sugata Sanshiro , dirigió más de 30 películas, entre ellas algunas tan conocidas como Los siete samuráis, Rashōmon o Dersu Uzala. En 1990 recibió un Óscar honorífico por su trayectoria.
“En un mundo loco, sólo los locos están cuerdos.”
Fuente: Revolución y cultura, números 1-5. Colaborador Cuba. Consejo Nacional de Cultura. Publicado en 1999. p. 37.
“El hombre es un genio cuando se está soñando.”
Fuente: Hoy, números 681-690. Editor Araucaria Ltda., 1990. Procedencia del original: Universidad de Texas. Digitalizado: 17 Nov 2008. p. 41.
Fuente: Gómez Sánchez, Santiago Andrés. El cine en busca de sentido, p. 87. Universidad de Antioquia, 2010. ISBN 9587143744, 9789587143744. https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=kDylJczQcPQC&q=vibrar#v=snippet&q=vibrar&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 3 de enero de 2020.
Fuente: Entrevista en Cahiers du Cinéma (1966)
Fuente: Granado Vecino, Conrado. Carne de casting: La vida de los otros actores. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2017. ISBN 9788491129660.
Fuente: Ebert, Roger. Las grandes películas 2, Volumen 2. Cine (Ma Non Troppo). Las grandes películas, Rafael Dalmau i Ferreres. Ediciones Robinbook, 2006. ISBN 9788496222571, p. 318.
Akira Kurosawa 'Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
On the style of the film Rashomon, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie, 3rd edition, p. 79
Contexto: I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
Criterion Collection essay on Rashamon, excerpted from Something Like an Autobiography as translated by Audie E. Bock (1982) http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/196-akira-kurosawa-on-rashomon
Contexto: Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. This script portrays such human beings — the kind who cannot survive without lies to make them feel they are better people than they really are. It even shows this sinful need for flattering falsehood going beyond the grave — even the character who dies cannot give up his lies when he speaks to the living through a medium. Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem. This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ego. You say that you can’t understand this script at all, but that is because the human heart itself is impossible to understand. If you focus on the impossibility of truly understanding human psychology and read the script one more time, I think you will grasp the point of it.
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”
Ran (1985)
Variante: In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Contexto: Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
Criterion Collection essay on Rashamon, excerpted from Something Like an Autobiography as translated by Audie E. Bock (1982) http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/196-akira-kurosawa-on-rashomon
Contexto: Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. This script portrays such human beings — the kind who cannot survive without lies to make them feel they are better people than they really are. It even shows this sinful need for flattering falsehood going beyond the grave — even the character who dies cannot give up his lies when he speaks to the living through a medium. Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem. This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ego. You say that you can’t understand this script at all, but that is because the human heart itself is impossible to understand. If you focus on the impossibility of truly understanding human psychology and read the script one more time, I think you will grasp the point of it.
“There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.”
Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Contexto: Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
“Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem.”
Criterion Collection essay on Rashamon, excerpted from Something Like an Autobiography as translated by Audie E. Bock (1982) http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/196-akira-kurosawa-on-rashomon
Contexto: Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. This script portrays such human beings — the kind who cannot survive without lies to make them feel they are better people than they really are. It even shows this sinful need for flattering falsehood going beyond the grave — even the character who dies cannot give up his lies when he speaks to the living through a medium. Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem. This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ego. You say that you can’t understand this script at all, but that is because the human heart itself is impossible to understand. If you focus on the impossibility of truly understanding human psychology and read the script one more time, I think you will grasp the point of it.
Akira Kurosawa as quoted in Kamiski, Michael (2007). The Secret History of Star Wars(PDF). p. 48. Retrieved 2011-01-31.