{"id":287,"date":"2008-01-06T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-01-06T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T10:08:07","slug":"akira-kurosawa-on-film-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/akira-kurosawa-on-film-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Akira Kurosawa on film critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what one of the greatest film directors of all time said about film critics :<br \/>\n&#8220;There is a famous haiku by Bashio :<br \/>\nAn old pond<br \/>\nA frog jumps in &#8211;<br \/>\nthe sound of the water.<br \/>\nPeople who read it and say ?Well, of course if a frog jumps into the water, there?s going to be a noise? simply have no feeling for haiku. There are sometimes such human beings among film critics &#8211; the things they say they see are so far off the beam that you would think they were possessed by some kind of demon. I suppose nothing can be done about critics, but we can?t have such people among film directors.?&#8221;  A quote by Akira Kurosawa.<br \/>\nFilm is poetry.  But more and more film critics look for prose.  Even critics now are too impatient to  look beyond. Like the rest of our society now, they too suffer from information overload.  We are are becoming increasingly a  &#8216;reactive&#8217; society&#8217;  propelled by  unrelenting external stimuli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what one of the greatest film directors of all time said about film critics : &#8220;There is a famous haiku by Bashio : An old pond A frog jumps in &#8211; the sound of the water. 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