Blinkoblanko [he/him,they/them]

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Cake day: December 13th, 2021

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  • Incredible movie. One of the best ever made. It's nerdy but I love that Kurosawa intentionally merged King Lear with the Tale of the Three Arrows to make this masterpiece. I mean, he's famous for use of John Ford western stylization to make samurai movies, which then amazingly created new tropes that were reintroduced into cowboy movies by directors who ripped him off. And he did a similar thing to Ran in Throne of Blood and Macbeth. But here the film he created in neither a western style movie with samurai, or Shakespeare with katanas and japanese mythology... It's a whole different story - vaguely king lear and vaguely the three arrows story gone wrong. A true synthesis. Add to that a director at the peak of his career consciously experimenting with color photography after mastering black and white. It's incredible. The man was a genius







  • "Barbarcratic" - rule by barbarism

    The more I think about this the more I like it... Or some variation. It doesn't quite roll off the tongue, but it alludes to the "socialism or barbarism" line which makes it harder to reappropriate without being glaringly contradictory

    Also I've used that line to libs and they have literally stopped in their tracks to think about it. It's an amazing line



  • Blinkoblanko [he/him,they/them]togamesWordle 233
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    2 years ago

    Wordle 233 5/6

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    Least Kneel Plied Older Elder

    Idk why I didn't realize there were two e's even though it absolutely told me there was