Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is
widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever
made. In a detailed account of the film, Robert N. Watson explores
how Kurosawa draws key philosophical and psychological arguments
from Shakespeare, translates them into striking visual metaphors,
and inflects them through the history of post-World War II Japan.
Watson places particular emphasis on the contexts that underlie the
film's central tension between individual aspiration and the
stability of broader social and ecological collectives - and
therefore between free will and determinism. In his foreword to
this new edition, Robert Watson considers the central characters'
Washizu and his wife Asaji's blunder in viewing life as a ruthless
competition in which only the most brutal can thrive in the context
of an era of neoliberal economics, resurgent 'strongman' political
leaders, and myopic views of the environmenal crisis, with nothing
valued that cannot be monetized.
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