More filmmakers today should study Kurosawa

(via Mastodon)

Kurosawa was a master of cinematic movement. The video below presents how so and why.

More filmmakers today should study Kurosawa (and other past masters). So many of today’s films are so bland, so unimaginative in terms of the cinematic use of movement. Even the ones with lots of movement, that movement is all too often unimaginative and doesn’t serve the narrative or the characters.

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