121 - Akira Kurosawa’s RAN (ft. E Rathke)

Akira Kurosawa's RAN (1985)
with author E Rathke  

This is David's first Kurosawa movie. How's that even possible? We also talk about how Eddy got his dream job, death of cinema, what a movie is and what makes it good, painting storyboards, Mad Max: Furiosa trailer reactions, Anya Taylor Lovejoy, Daily Wire movies, the //MOVIES episode on Lady Ballers, having a vision vs understanding technology, the problems with "fix it in post," King Lear and the legends of Mori Motonari, our Shakespeare theories, Jean-Michel Goudard, the leaked GTA VI trailer, working 90-hour weeks, actor pay is way too high, the biography of Tatsuya Nakadai, first date ideas, immigrant ambition, the psychology of Ran, how Succession is a lot like Ran but why Kelby thinks it sucks, the wisdom of the Fool, the inverse revenge story, acting requiring an environment to engage with, the importance of contextual reference of the making of a scene in how the audience engages with it, improv, Indiana Jones, John Wick, lamenting the age of auteurs, is anyone good anymore?, the one shot, Crazy Samurai, Russian Arc, The Lighthouse, the power of being quiet, the nothing movie bout the bitch making waffles, our plot to erase Joss Whedon, the case in favor of Danny McBride, the origin of long titles, and investigating the hype around Eric LaRocca.  

We all have new books out:  

A WAR IN HEAVEN by J David Osborne (anime-influenced cyberpunk)

BROKEN KATANA by E Rathke (dystopian cybergoth)

GOD IS WEARING BLACK by Kelby Losack (a collection of surreal hoodrat noir and bizarre horror)