{"id":112,"date":"2007-07-24T07:05:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ftcautoblogsum07\/2007\/07\/24\/the-theme-of-tradition-in-yojimbo\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T07:05:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T13:05:44","slug":"the-theme-of-tradition-in-yojimbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ftcautoblogsum07\/2007\/07\/24\/the-theme-of-tradition-in-yojimbo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Theme of Tradition in Yojimbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into this class I had never seen Yojimbo or read the Glass Key, but I had seen A Fistful of Dollars many times. I have been trying over the course of our class to find what is so compelling to me about Yojimbo.  Having already seen pretty much the exact same story in A Fistful of Dollars, the Kurosawa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s classic somehow resonates even more.  There are two major ways in which the films differ: Yojimbo is in black and white and A Fistful of Dollars is in color, and Yojimbo is set in Japan, while A Fistful of Dollars is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153set\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the American West although it was filmed in Spain.  But this blog will not be relegated to a simple comparison of the films; it is intended to be an analysis of what the true genre of Kurosawa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s film should be and why it is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Original post by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onda\/2007\/07\/24\/the-theme-of-tradition-in-yojimbo\/\" title=\"\">onda<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into this class I had never seen Yojimbo or read the Glass Key, but I had seen A Fistful of Dollars many times. I have been trying over the course of our class to find what is so compelling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ftcautoblogsum07\/2007\/07\/24\/the-theme-of-tradition-in-yojimbo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-array"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ftcautoblogsum07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ftcautoblogsum07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ftcautoblogsum07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ftcautoblogsum07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ftcautoblogsum07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ftcautoblogsum07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ftcautoblogsum07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ftcautoblogsum07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}