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Oct 30, 2006
カテゴリ： みるもん
Passenger Pigeons!! Passenger Pigeons!!
IT'S POETRY. THE POETRY OF WAR...
I've been a closet Forest Whitaker fan for a long time now.
The depth & breadth of this talented actor's work sneaks up on you, and once you've noticed it you can't stop watching him.
Don't rent this movie if you're looking for a shoot 'em up, punch 'em out, the good guys win kinda action flick.
This ain't it.
The action & violence in this film only underscores the deeper philosophical and social commentary.
The Eastern philosophies are not only a tool to advance the plot, but are an integral part of it, and some of those aspects will be missed viewers who are looking for non-stop action.
Forest Whitaker , in person, is one cool dude.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai ," as the main character, Ghost Dog , he is even cooler.
He's also a passenger pigeon lover, a car thief, a student of Hagakure, the how-to guide for Samurai wanna-be's, and most importantly for the sake of the movie, a contract killer for the mob.. But assigned by Louie (John Tormey) to rub out someone who has been messing with the daughter of mob boss Vargo, played by a stony Henry Silva, Ghost Dog commits a slight error.. Daughter Louise was to have been returned to her daddy, but somewhere along the line this bit of info didn't get conveyed.. Watching a deadly serious Ghost Dog driving through his urban nightmarescape in a stolen car while listening to RZA hip-hop and rap is something so oddly passive and ethereal, that I would not ever expect it to be so effective....
But it is.!!
The inner monologue of Ghost Dog dwelling on his Samurai instincts is a zillion miles away from, but strangely resonates with, Richard Farnsworth's visage while doing his 5 MPH John Deere crawl across Iowa in "The Straight Story."
Sure, there's violence in this movie.
But the dispatch of comic-book mobsters is hardly unsettling.
It's the " communication " between Ghost Dog and his " best friend " Raymond, a French-speaking ice cream truck operator, Director Jim Jarmusch , no stranger to odd movie efforts.
Neither Ghost Dog nor Raymond speaks the other's tongue, but over and over they converse in a two-language dualogue and seem to be utterly content with that.
It's a funny and repetitive bit that violates the " rule of three " but works nonetheless.
Vargo's henchmen, such as Gene Ruffini as the Old Consigliere, who exemplifies the "less is more" concept of acting.
Whitaker's zen-like presence.
【The RZA】Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Eerie, mesmerizing, funny. Gr8 performance by Whitaker.
Ghost Dog is supremely entertaining,
as long as you let yourself be drawn into its strange rhythms.
The story concerns the titular character, played to perfection by the terribly underused Forest Whitaker , who is a freelance hitman who follows the code of the samurai.
There has been a mistake made with his latest contract, and through no fault of his own, the wrong person witnessed the hit, and it has been decided that he must be eliminated to maintain order.
Needless to say, Ghost Dog is having none of that.
You could dismiss the remainder of the narrative for being a standard revenge melodrama dressed up with art school embellishments, and in your own way you'd be right.
You could also take the material seriously, with its reflection on the death of cultural traditions ( Jarmusch draws parallels between the Mafia and the samurai, one as a shell of its former self, the other as simply being a dead way of life, both with a kind of mythical status ).
From my aspect, I was grateful for the art school embellishments, which just happened to rub me the right way ( I prefer Jarmusch to Hal Hartley, no contest, and Stanley Kubrick, in a film-by-film comparison ), and took the sociology class lecture material with a grain of salt, although his points are valid.
Ghost Dog's interaction with the people he meets in his quest for honor and meaning in a modern world gives us insights to his character.. The scripting is top notch, and every scene with Whitaker
" Ghost Dog " is a gr8 film, a fascinating, entertaining picture that mixes pulp and hip-hop and philosophy, and another entry on a short list of reasons why I like Jim Jarmusch's work so much.
IT'S POETRY. THE POETRY OF WAR...
I've been a closet Forest Whitaker fan for a long time now.
The depth & breadth of this talented actor's work sneaks up on you, and once you've noticed it you can't stop watching him.
Don't rent this movie if you're looking for a shoot 'em up, punch 'em out, the good guys win kinda action flick.
This ain't it.
The action & violence in this film only underscores the deeper philosophical and social commentary.
The Eastern philosophies are not only a tool to advance the plot, but are an integral part of it, and some of those aspects will be missed viewers who are looking for non-stop action.
Forest Whitaker , in person, is one cool dude.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai ," as the main character, Ghost Dog , he is even cooler.
He's also a passenger pigeon lover, a car thief, a student of Hagakure, the how-to guide for Samurai wanna-be's, and most importantly for the sake of the movie, a contract killer for the mob.. But assigned by Louie (John Tormey) to rub out someone who has been messing with the daughter of mob boss Vargo, played by a stony Henry Silva, Ghost Dog commits a slight error.. Daughter Louise was to have been returned to her daddy, but somewhere along the line this bit of info didn't get conveyed.. Watching a deadly serious Ghost Dog driving through his urban nightmarescape in a stolen car while listening to RZA hip-hop and rap is something so oddly passive and ethereal, that I would not ever expect it to be so effective....
But it is.!!
The inner monologue of Ghost Dog dwelling on his Samurai instincts is a zillion miles away from, but strangely resonates with, Richard Farnsworth's visage while doing his 5 MPH John Deere crawl across Iowa in "The Straight Story."
Sure, there's violence in this movie.
But the dispatch of comic-book mobsters is hardly unsettling.
It's the " communication " between Ghost Dog and his " best friend " Raymond, a French-speaking ice cream truck operator, Director Jim Jarmusch , no stranger to odd movie efforts.
Neither Ghost Dog nor Raymond speaks the other's tongue, but over and over they converse in a two-language dualogue and seem to be utterly content with that.
It's a funny and repetitive bit that violates the " rule of three " but works nonetheless.
Vargo's henchmen, such as Gene Ruffini as the Old Consigliere, who exemplifies the "less is more" concept of acting.
Whitaker's zen-like presence.
【The RZA】Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Eerie, mesmerizing, funny. Gr8 performance by Whitaker.
Ghost Dog is supremely entertaining,
as long as you let yourself be drawn into its strange rhythms.
The story concerns the titular character, played to perfection by the terribly underused Forest Whitaker , who is a freelance hitman who follows the code of the samurai.
There has been a mistake made with his latest contract, and through no fault of his own, the wrong person witnessed the hit, and it has been decided that he must be eliminated to maintain order.
Needless to say, Ghost Dog is having none of that.
You could dismiss the remainder of the narrative for being a standard revenge melodrama dressed up with art school embellishments, and in your own way you'd be right.
You could also take the material seriously, with its reflection on the death of cultural traditions ( Jarmusch draws parallels between the Mafia and the samurai, one as a shell of its former self, the other as simply being a dead way of life, both with a kind of mythical status ).
From my aspect, I was grateful for the art school embellishments, which just happened to rub me the right way ( I prefer Jarmusch to Hal Hartley, no contest, and Stanley Kubrick, in a film-by-film comparison ), and took the sociology class lecture material with a grain of salt, although his points are valid.
Ghost Dog's interaction with the people he meets in his quest for honor and meaning in a modern world gives us insights to his character.. The scripting is top notch, and every scene with Whitaker
" Ghost Dog " is a gr8 film, a fascinating, entertaining picture that mixes pulp and hip-hop and philosophy, and another entry on a short list of reasons why I like Jim Jarmusch's work so much.
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