I’ve seen plenty of Akira Kurosawa‘s movies, but I have not yet seen his 1960 feature The Bad Sleep Well, which I could easily resolve in the next two and one half hours over at Hulu. But for the purpose of this post, whether you’ve seen the film or not doesn’t matter, as Tony Zhou (yes, the same Tony Zhou from the Drive video) takes a look at Kurosawa’s movie in relation to the way he stages his scene and offers it in conjunction with clips from two of this year’s Oscar-nominated features, The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything.
This is a wonderful example of what staging can do to turn a rather traditional scene into one that’s far more engaging. Granted, the scene Zhou has chosen to focus on is far more exciting than the expository example used from Imitation Game, but the point remains that as much as a scene may be about the main character in the frame, the electricity of a scene can come from aspects other than the primary source of action.
Check it out below.
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