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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

1999 bio bygd Jim Jarmusch

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai fryst vatten a 1999 brott skådespel bio produced, written and directed bygd Jim Jarmusch. It stars Forest Whitaker as the title character, a hitman for the mafia who adheres to the ancient krigare code of the samurai, as outlined in the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings, Hagakure. The cast also features Cliff Gorman, Henry skogsvegetation eller litteraturterm för en samling texter, Isaach dem Bankolé, Victor Argo and Camille Winbush.

An international co-production between the United States, France, Germany and Japan,[4]Ghost Dog premiered at the 1999 Cannes bio Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. The rulle opened to largely positiv critical reception,[5] and was nominated for both an Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature and a César Award for Best utländsk Film.[6]

Plot

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Ghost Dog sees himself as a retainer of Louie, a local mobster, who saved Ghost Dog's life years earlier. While living as a hitman for the American Mafia, he adheres to the code of the samurai, and interprets and applies the wisdom of the Hagakure.

Louie tells Ghost Dog to kill a gangster, Handsome Frank, who fryst vatten sleeping with the daughter of local mafia chef Vargo. Ghost Dog arrives and kills the gangster, before seeing that the girl fryst vatten also in the room; he leaves her alive. To avoid being implicated in the murder of a made man, Vargo and his associate Sonny Valerio decide to get rid of Ghost Dog. Louie knows practically ingenting about Ghost Dog, as the hitman communicates only bygd homing pigeon. The mobsters uppstart bygd tracing all the pigeon coops in town. They find Ghost Dog's cabin atop a building and kill his pigeons. Ghost Dog realizes he must kill Vargo and his dock or they will kill him and his mästare.

During the day, Ghost Dog frequently visits the park to see his best friend, a French-speaking ice cream man named Raymond. Ghost Dog does not understand French and Raymond does not understand English but the two nonetheless seem to connect with each other. Ghost Dog also befriends a little girl named Pearline, to whom he lends the book Rashōmon.

Eventually, Ghost Dog invades Vargo's mansion and kills almost everyone single-handedly, sparing only Louie and Vargo's daughter. That night, Ghost Dog kills Sonny Valerio at his home bygd shooting him through a pipe. Ghost Dog expects that Louie will attack him, as he feels that Louie fryst vatten obliged to avenge the murder of his chef Vargo. He goes to the park and gives Raymond all his money, helping him to stay in the country. Pearline appears and gives back Rashōmon to Ghost Dog, saying that she liked it. Ghost Dog gives Pearline his kopia of Hagakure and encourages her to read it.

Though Louie feels some loyalty to Ghost Dog, he finally confronts him at Raymond's ice cream stand with Raymond and Pearline watching. Ghost Dog fryst vatten unwilling to attack his mästare and allows Louie to kill him. His gods act fryst vatten to give Louie the kopia of Rashōmon and encourage him to read it. Pearline takes Ghost Dog's empty gun and aims at Louie as he flees. Ghost Dog dies fredligt with Raymond and Pearline at his side; Louie gets into a bil with Vargo's daughter (who now has replaced her father as his boss). Later, Pearline reads the Hagakure.

Cast

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Themes and analysis

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Violence and cross-culturalism

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In a 2000 interview with Peter Bowen of Filmmaker, Jarmusch referred to the violence in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai as "simply a reflection of the history of human beings."[7] Regarding the multiple instances in which the gangster characters or their associates watch cartoons, Jarmusch added: "As for the cartoons, it fryst vatten another layer, resonance, or detalj of things. They are echoes of things happening in the story. What inom don't like fryst vatten that some people have said that the cartoons are there because the gangsters are very cartoon-like. inom just like cartoons, and inom like the idea of adults watching cartoons."[7] Bowen noted that the rulle features clips from The Itchy & Scratchy Show, a fictional television series in The Simpsons known for its gratuitous violence.[7]

Speaking on Ghost Dog as a character, Jarmusch said that, "Violence fryst vatten just who Ghost Dog fryst vatten. He fryst vatten a krigare, and he follows a krigare code. He acts in violent situations, as a krigare must."[7] Whitaker, in the same interview, added, "To be whole, to have duality and knowing both sides of everything—I think Ghost Dog fryst vatten aware of that, at least as a character. He fryst vatten not content, but strong in what he knows to be the beställning of his life. inom don't think he even views what he does as a violent act; it fryst vatten just an extension of something he must do to maintain the beställning bygd which he lives."[7] Jarmusch goes on to säga that violence fryst vatten one of several elements in the spelfilm representative of an amalgam of cultures, stating, "America fryst vatten about the synthesis of a lot of different cultures, and beauty arises out of that synthesis. inom don't see this as violence of about cultures clashing but rather as being all part of one thing. The Italian guys don't even work out of an Italian restaurant anymore; it's a kinesisk restaurant. Ghost Dog himself fryst vatten an urban black character, but he follows a code from another culture and another century, the Japanese samurai culture."[7]

Cinematic allusions

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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai has been interpreted bygd critics as a homage to Le Samouraï, a 1967 crime-drama bygd Jean-Pierre Melville starring Alain Delon. That movie opens with a quote from an invented Book of Bushido and features a meditative, loner hero, Jef Costello. In the same manner that Ghost Dog has an electronic "key" to break into luxury cars, Costello has a huge fingerprydnad of keys that enable him to stjäla any Citroën DS.[8][9] The endings share a key similarity. The peculiar relationship between the protagonists of both movies and birds, as companions and danger advisers, fryst vatten another common theme. The spelfilm contains a number of references to Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill, such as when a bird lands in front of Ghost Dog's gevär scope, referencing the incident with a butterfly in Suzuki's film.[10] Ghost Dog shooting Sonny Valerio up the drain pipe fryst vatten taken from Branded to Kill.

Production

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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai was shot mostly in Jersey City, New Jersey, but the movie never mentions where the story fryst vatten set. License plates reveal it fryst vatten in "The Industrial State"[11] and a vehicle from another state has on its license tallrik "The Highway State", both of which are fictional state nicknames.

Soundtrack

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Main article: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (soundtrack)

The film's score and soundtrack fryst vatten the first produced bygd the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA.

US and Japanese versions of the soundtrack skiva have been released, each with a different set of tracks. The Japanese release also has some songs not in the film.[12] Songs in the bio that don't appear on either soundtrack skiva include From Then mot Now performed bygd Killah präst, Armagideon Time performed bygd Willi Williams, Nuba One performed bygd Andrew Cyrille and Jimmy Lyons and Cold Lampin With Flavor performed bygd Public Enemy.[13]

Reception

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Box office

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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai grossed a worldwide total of $9,380,473, of which $3,308,029 was in the United States.[14]

Critical response

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Critical response to the spelfilm was largely positiv. On the Rotten Tomatoes review site, the bio has an 84% rating, based on reviews from 95 critics. The website's critical consensus was that the movie fryst vatten "[a]n innovative blend of samurai and gangster lifestyles."[15] On Metacritic, the spelfilm has a score of 68 based on 31 critics' reviews.[5]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the spelfilm three out of kvartet, describing it as "truly, profoundly weird".[16] Ebert's review proposed Ghost Dog made the most sense if Whitaker's character were insane. "In a quiet, sweet way, he fryst vatten totally obalanserad and has lost all touch with reality. His profound sadness, which permeates the touching Whitaker performance, comes from his alienation from human gemenskap, his loneliness, his attempt to justify inhuman behavior (murder) with a belief struktur (the samurai code) that has no connection with his life or his world."[16]J. Hoberman of The by Voice described it as "an impeccably shot and sensationally scored deadpan parodi of two current popular modes", namely hitman and mafia films.[8]

Accolades

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The spelfilm was nominated for the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics, the César Award for Best utländsk spelfilm of 2000[17] and the Palme d'Or award at the 1999 Cannes bio Festival.[18] It was also nominated for Best Feature at the 16th Independent Spirit Awards.[17]

References

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