"To the white sea" "London days"
"To the white sea" "London days"
I have read two books last week. One is "To the white sea", novel by James Dickey, and another is "London days",essay by Shoji Kogami,Japanese stage director of "The Third stage".
"To the white sea" was the story of a W.W.II bomber crew man shot down over Tokyo prior to the great fire bomb raids in 1945. He is utterly alone on a hostile foreign island and began a superior adventure to struggle to stay alive and eventually repatriate. The protagonist goes north. That is because he came from Alaska and did hunting for the staff of life. So snow or cold winter could help him. He finally arrives. Hokkaido and participated in Ainu peoples' life after killed many Japanese people.
I feel that this is not the story of adventure or war thing, but story of "so-to-speak" a wild animal which is released in a different environment and try to survive. The protagonist is not to going to survive the war, but survive wild environment instinctively as a wild animal. And at last the protagonist was killed. The scene was described poetically. That impresses me like that he was not killed but he was released into the nature of snow country.
And this novel is going to become a movie in next year. The protagonist is to be played by Brad Pit. I think it is good casting. He can play a wild, insane but intellectual role, I think, so this role probably fits him.
Another book I've read this week was "London days". It is the essay by Japanese stage director "Shoji Kogami". He had stayed in English actors' school in London for a year and studied the actors' training method in UK. That is, according to the author, more systematic than Japanese school. But what was most impressed was that although there is any difference of education system, social environment, culture, and the people who are making efforts to become actors have same pleasure and troubles. So he told that the stay in London didn't gave him any change on his acting or stage directing, but it was best point that the stay made him hope to play his own stage in London. That's probably good example of studying in foreign country. Another interesting point was the lesson to mimic some animals in zoo. Students buy season ticket of a zoo and go there every week to observe some animals and play the mimic of the animals in school lessons. This seems to cultivate actors the powers of observation. I don't know such lesson is here in Japanese actor school.
I have read two books last week. One is "To the white sea", novel by James Dickey, and another is "London days",essay by Shoji Kogami,Japanese stage director of "The Third stage".
"To the white sea" was the story of a W.W.II bomber crew man shot down over Tokyo prior to the great fire bomb raids in 1945. He is utterly alone on a hostile foreign island and began a superior adventure to struggle to stay alive and eventually repatriate. The protagonist goes north. That is because he came from Alaska and did hunting for the staff of life. So snow or cold winter could help him. He finally arrives. Hokkaido and participated in Ainu peoples' life after killed many Japanese people.
I feel that this is not the story of adventure or war thing, but story of "so-to-speak" a wild animal which is released in a different environment and try to survive. The protagonist is not to going to survive the war, but survive wild environment instinctively as a wild animal. And at last the protagonist was killed. The scene was described poetically. That impresses me like that he was not killed but he was released into the nature of snow country.
And this novel is going to become a movie in next year. The protagonist is to be played by Brad Pit. I think it is good casting. He can play a wild, insane but intellectual role, I think, so this role probably fits him.
Another book I've read this week was "London days". It is the essay by Japanese stage director "Shoji Kogami". He had stayed in English actors' school in London for a year and studied the actors' training method in UK. That is, according to the author, more systematic than Japanese school. But what was most impressed was that although there is any difference of education system, social environment, culture, and the people who are making efforts to become actors have same pleasure and troubles. So he told that the stay in London didn't gave him any change on his acting or stage directing, but it was best point that the stay made him hope to play his own stage in London. That's probably good example of studying in foreign country. Another interesting point was the lesson to mimic some animals in zoo. Students buy season ticket of a zoo and go there every week to observe some animals and play the mimic of the animals in school lessons. This seems to cultivate actors the powers of observation. I don't know such lesson is here in Japanese actor school.
