I watched a very condensed 3-hour version of Peter Brook's Mahabaratha, the classical Sanskrit saga that in the original is ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. The famous Bhagavad Gita is contained within it. Brooke's original staging was 9 hours long and it exists in various lengths on film and video.
Striking actors and actresses, stunning sets and costumes, powerful texts and themes.
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He did this twenty years ago, a consciously internationalist and multiracial* production designed to show the Indian warrior epic as a universal human story.
Ironically, so much of the power of the transcultural version of the story is about roots and conflicts in blood and family. The archetypal is particular and incarnate.
Reminded me of Greek tragedies and the movies of Kurosawa.
*With a noticeable over-representation of Africans.
Striking actors and actresses, stunning sets and costumes, powerful texts and themes.
He did this twenty years ago, a consciously internationalist and multiracial* production designed to show the Indian warrior epic as a universal human story.
Ironically, so much of the power of the transcultural version of the story is about roots and conflicts in blood and family. The archetypal is particular and incarnate.
Reminded me of Greek tragedies and the movies of Kurosawa.
*With a noticeable over-representation of Africans.
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Hi! It's me again, correcting you. Their names are spelled, Akira Kurosawa, and Peter Brook. I'm such a nitpicker! :)
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