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Audience Manipulation Through Character Perspective

February 19, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on playing with character perspective to take the audience exactly where you want them… In the history of cinema, many writers and directors have sought to transfix an audience and take them to very deliberate places. Sometimes these tales fire straight like an arrow, leading us on a linear and clear path, with […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: American Psycho, Fight Club, Rashomon, The Burning, The Handmaiden, The Usual Suspects

HBO Max teams with Amblin for Rashomon-inspired TV series

September 28, 2020 by Gary Collinson

In December 2018 it was announced that Steven Spielberg’s Amblin was in development on a TV drama inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1950 film Rashomon, and now comes word that HBO Max has boarded the project. Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) and Virgil Williams (Mudbound) are scripting the drama, which will not be a direct adaptation of […]

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Cinema’s Groundbreakers – Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon

September 20, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Continuing a look back at some of the most ground-breaking films in cinema, Tom Jolliffe takes a look at Rashomon… When looking back through the work of Akira Kurosawa, it would be difficult to pinpoint only one film as particularly ground-breaking. The truth his, through his early career in a post-war boom for Japanese cinema […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon, Reservoir Dogs, Seven Samurai, Takashi Shimura, The Usual Suspects, Toshiro Mifune

Amblin developing TV adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon

December 23, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1950 film Rashomon is in development as a dramatic mystery thriller series from Amblin Television, with plans for a 10-episode season which – as with the original movie – will tell a single event from multiple points of view, allowing the audience to piece together the truth behind the mystery. “We couldn’t […]

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