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The weird part is, apparently while they were revising his face they gave him lasik. Because I haven't seen him once with his glasses on since the whole cancer saga began, and that is the part that makes me unable to recognize him.
(Maybe they revised his ears so he can't wear glasses any more?)
Maybe he wears them on the show to read the teleprompter. I wouldn't imagine someone his age getting Lasik, since it can't fix presbyopia.
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I am not familiar with Akira Kurosawa's work.
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Maybe he wears them on the show to read the teleprompter.
I'd noticed it too, in earlier pics I've seen of his new face -- my thought was "maybe he actually prefers contacts, but wore the glasses on TV because it was always such a part of his look".
After everything he's been through, I could see him saying, screw the image, from here on out comfort is the key.
I rented "Dreams", a collection of Kurasawa's short films, and was absolutely enchanted by several of them (the one in the post-apocalypse future left me cold, but I think it was supposed to). I'm still haunted by the story of the peach (cherry?) trees and the story of the boy who looked in the woods and saw something he was forbidden to, and the heartbreaking consequences.
And then I watched Roshomon, and while it may have been revolutionary for film-making, as a film to watch and enjoy I was disappointed, and it's been done better since. Especially since I didn't find the four viewpoints to vary that much, if at all, really, which made it ineffective to me as a device.
I like Rashoman quite a bit (in fact, I just rewatched it last night, if I remember correctly), but it's not the best of Kurosawa, and Dreams isn't even close. His top tier (for me) is Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, High and Low, and Ran. Next tier would have Rashoman, Hidden Fortress, Kagemusha, The Bad Sleep Well, and Stray Dog. Dreams is the bottom of the well of the Kurosawa movies I've seen, but there's a lot of others I haven't seen, either.
in fact, I just rewatched it last night, if I remember correctly
That's not how I remember it. t /Homer Simpson
But... but... The Hidden Fortress has that scene with Toshiro Mifune in single combat wearing short-shorts and knee socks! How can that be second-tier, I ask you!
(Of the others I've seen -- not all -- I think my favorite was Throne of Blood, because of the ghost scene, although I may be shorting Ran just because I wasn't expecting it to be in color and that freaked me out.)
but there's a lot of others I haven't seen, either.
Dodesukadan.