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It was shocking how easily Round 2 was going, and then this. Impossible.
Rashomon may not be Kurosawa's best picture, but it's still better than On the Waterfront, and that's the point of the pairing.
These two should be quarter finalists at least. That they are facing off in round 2 just is not right. Having said that, the edge has to go to Rashomon for being a transformative film in so many ways....screenplay, narrative structure, editing, cinematography, etc.
Rashomon not only is avante garde with its structure and editing but Kurosawa's blocking compositions and deep focus photography is spectacular and the film is well deserved of its masterpiece status. On the Waterfront just can't compete with this goliath.
On the Waterfront all the way. This is one of Kurasawa's 2nd tier films in my opinion. Throne of Blood is much better. But of course was tossed because madness etc.
At the end of the day On the Waterfront is a well made movie about good versus evil, with decent performances that are strongly eclipsed by other films each of the actors made in the same decade. Rashomon is one of the all time great unreliable narrator twisted-tales of cinema. Any one of the "tellings" outdoes OTWF's storytelling by a mile.
It's becoming clear that instead of watching blindspots that got housed in round 1 I should have been rewatching the formative masterpieces of my cinephilia. Without recent study, how do you even compare a film I mainly remember for upending my understanding of what's possible in cinematic storytelling and one that upended my understanding of what's possible in acting? Edge to Kurosawa I guess, but who even knows!?
The blocking in Rashomon is so crafted and deliberate, that it toes the line of being gimmicky. What keeps it from crossing that line is that it's frankly just done so expertly well that you awe at it instead of rolling your eyes. Add to that the nuanced ways that he directed the different perspectives uniquely to make the audience buy into the format of the story, and you have a true masterpiece.