/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Kurasawa was a socialist? Interesting.
I think that we can find more left-wing people in the arts in general, so it correlates to that.

>Kurosawa brought samurai movies to its apotheosis, inspiring everything from Star Wars to contemporary westerns.
Sounds like a net negative.

>>2893317
Sergio Leone was also raised in a socialist family. His films weren't overtly ideological but there are some evil capitalist villians in his Westerns.

This is half-baked on my part but I think it's kind of dialectical like through absolute negation turns into its opposite. You don't have to hold any sacred feelings towards the past, but its through ruthless criticism that you can draw out certain things from history and appreciate it as well. The world that Kurosawa presents is really awful for example, like some town is just overrun by gangsters.

>>2893323
ok so he sounds more like a petty bourgeois artist with vague socialist sympathies

>>2893985 (me)
still very cool, and more than i expected out of kurosawa. i always liked his movies but never looked into his politics because i assumed he would have been a japanese fascist during WW2

isn't the real root of the matter here just that reactionaries rarely make good art? the only far-right directors who come to mind as having contributed anything of note to film as an art form are like D.H. Laurence and Leni Riefenstahl, and their contribution is less about film as an art form in the traditional sense so much as demonstrating the power of film as a propaganda medium and apparatus of control.

>>2893317
>socialist media
>Akira Kurosawa
>Sergio Leone
>George Lucas
Nah, just no. You not only do a disservice to actual socialist film makers and soviet realist cinema for trying to paint these directors something that they were not. And this is from someone who loves Leone and Kurosawa films. I mean, for fucks sake, Kurosawa make pro Japanese imperialist propaganda movies during the war, jfc.

>>2893991
Reactionaries can be good at literature. Or at least they used to be.

>>2893991
>the only far-right directors who come to mind as having contributed anything of note to film as an art form are like D.H. Laurence
Surely you're thinking of someone other than the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover?

>>2894032
It's weird as shit to be reading someone like Thomas Carlyle and admiring his mastery of English prose but also recognizing that he was pretty much a proto-fascist. Modern rightoids should be holding him up as a hero, but I'm not sure a single one of them can even understand what he writes.