Talk:Rashomon (film)

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Contents 1 what does the gate represent in the story 2 Hiroito/Tojo/McArthur allegory 3 Spoiler End? 4 Hero 5 Farscape 6 Military film? 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Kurorasho.jpg 8 Note about names

[edit] what does the gate represent in the story

what does the gate represent in the story? Is it the same in the film? Is the meaning constant? Who speaks for the law of the jungle in the story and the film? How has the film changed the character and role of the priest? 06:37, 4 July 2005 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.215.104.49 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Hiroito/Tojo/McArthur allegory

This interpretation is interesting, but it seems to be original research as defined by Wikipedia. If this interpretation has been published, it would be nice to add a reference. Otherwise the section should probably be trimmed a lot.

BTW, I deleted the conjecture about Takehiro being a mixed English/Japanese wordplay "take Hiroito" as being too far-out. The other guess Tojomaru = "Tojo zero" sound quite bogus too. Jorge Stolfi 00:55, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

By the way, which spelling is correct after all: "Tojomaru" or "Tajomaru"? Jorge Stolfi 11:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

It's Tajōmaru. And besides, why would a piece of fiction written in 1922 (Ryunosuke Akutagawa's actual story "In a Grove") be an allegory for something that occurred nearly 20 years after the author's death? I think I'm going to have to dispute this. --Julian Grybowski 17:14, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Considering the lack of real evidence cited by the editor who added the first allegorical explanation, I went ahead and deleted it, and did some cleanup on the other sections (I think I got rid of all the "Tojomaru" spellings). I have my doubts about the second allegorical explanation as well, but since it's sourced, I just added in a little disclaimer explaining that any allegorical readings would have to be the result of the director's influence, rather than the story itself (which is Akutagawa's and dates to 1922). I trust there are no objections. --Julian Grybowski 03:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

ISTR there was an account given by the arresting officer after the priest and before the wife. Ralphmerridew 00:31, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spoiler End?

This page needs a spoiler end warning. Sunspeck 15:54, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

The ending has several interpretations. No one posted any yet? -- Zhixiong 13:08, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hero

The wikilink leads to the 2002 film, but I don't really see any resemblance. Was the 1992 film the one intended? --74.102.135.249 20:23, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

No, this and the 2002 Hero deal with different tellings of the same event from different people, aka the Rashomon effect. Doctor Sunshine 20:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

No, alhough Hero 1992 also has some characters lying, Hero 2002 tells stories over long sequences that are character subjective, as "invented" with Rashomon. -MURGH ^disc. 22:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Farscape

An episode of Farscape also had a Rashomon framing device, where the characters are on trail and each must recount their recollections of an event, with each recollection at odds with the others. Compared to some of the other examples, it is very close to the spirit of the film. RoyBatty42 08:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Military film?

I saw a recent film in the last 5 years that was of military theme, in which a group of young officers recount their accounts of an incident which has put some in the hospital (and I believe killed others), with each different account enacted in the film. In the end it turns out that some of the soldiers (army, if I recally correctly) end up being "double agents" as it were. I know it's a vague description, but I've never been able to remember the name of the film. Anyone recall it? TheHYPO 20:09, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

That would be "Basic" with John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson. 128.180.181.110 (talk) 04:14, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Kurorasho.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:39, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Note about names

Kurosawa did not include in his movie the 'Testimony of an Old Woman under Questioning by the Magistrate' of the Akutagawa's story. The names of killed samurai and his wife - which I removed from the text - are coming from that testimony. We shall not mix the story and the movie this way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.252.101.51 (talk) 21:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)