It's Friday and that means no relaxation whatsoever. I have homework for Comp. II, but it's easy, I think. I could tomorrow or tonight, but tonight ain't happening. I can't do it Sunday because I'm going with my friends to their friends house for a Super Bowl BBQ. So, my weekend is full and I don't think I have time for relaxation unless of course I feel like not turning in work at all.
In other news, I just watched at movie titled "Ran." It's pronounced Ron (like the name) and not ran. It's directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also directed "The Seven Samurai" and many more foreign films, and the movie is Kurosawa's reinterpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. So, for anyone who has read King Lear then you should get the idea of what this movie is about, if not read on. Instead of being set in Europe, it's set in 16th century Japan and Lord Hideotora wants to step down and divide his land to his three sons. The two older sons, Taro and Jiro, flatters their father, but the youngest, Saburo, speaks the truth to his father because he loves him and gets disowned. Taro and Jiro starts to take over the land and get rid of any power their father has left. This leads to Hideotora being driven out of both castles that his sons occupy.
Meanwhile, Saburo is in alliance with Lord Fujimaki and has sent a spy to make sure his father is protected. There's this huge battle where the two older sons gang up on their father and kills every warrior that's protecting their father, but Taro dies in the battle. Realizing what's happening, Hideotora tries to kill himself, but can't and this leads him to go insane and roam the lands of Japan with his loyal vassal following him. Jiro is now the sole ruler of the land that his father once owned and is living in the castle that Taro had just been living in. Taro's wife, Lady Kaede, is now seducing Jiro, who is already married, to be her husband because her family once owned the same castle, but they were killed and now she wants vegenance. She wants to be the wife of Jiro, but can't because of his other wife, Sue, so this leads to Lady Kaede controlling Jiro and telling him to have Sue killed. Jiro tells Kurogane, a general, to do the job and he comes back with this wrapped ball-shape object. When Lady Kaede unwraps the object, it reveals to be a head of a wolf statue covered in salt. This is a funny scene that has to be watched.
Meanwhile, the spy that was sent by Saburo goes and tells Saburo about his father's conditions. This leads to a search that gets the attention of Jiro. Jiro prepares for battle while his generals are advising against it, he doesn't listen and before he leaves Lady Kaede wants to talk to him. She controls/seduces him to kill his father by having assasins follow Saburo when he goes and search for his father. At the battle scene, Saburo is there waiting till dark to go search for his father, but Hideotora's vassal lost him and this leads to Saburo having to leave in the day and Jiro sending his men after him. A battle ensues between Jiro's men and Saburo's men with two other armies watching the battle. One army who's lead by Lord Ayabe, a friend of Lord Hideotora, and the other by Lord Fujimaki, another friend of Lord Hideotora. Both of these lords also want to own the land. A messenger from Jiro's castle tells him that Lord Ayabe is moving towards his castle, but that's impossible because Ayabe's troops are watching the battle or are they? The troops are a DECOY and Jiro falls back to his castle. Kurogane knows that this was the doing of Lady Kaede so he confronts her and she reveals her plan of wanting to burn the castle down and destroying the Ichimonji's (last name of Hideotora, Taro, Jiro, and Saburo) kingdom. This is a f**king cool scene that shows Kurogane silicing Lady Kaede and the blood just shoots out and covers the wall behind her in red.
While all of that is happening, Saburo finds his father, but is killed by Jiro's men, which leads to death of the father. In the end, there's another battle that isn't big, but it leads to the death of Jiro. I really enjoyed the movie because there were twists, a nice plot, a gory scene, good acting, couple of funny scenes, and best of all...it contained SAMURAIS!
I suggest everyone watch this movie.
Until then...
-I'm happy!
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