How on earth did Lucas, Coppola and Glass get involved in a film with such controversial themes and subject matter? Was Mishima a misunderstood genius or out of his mind?Favorite chapter in the film? Pic related is literally me.
>>219943720Why on Earth wouldn't they get involved? Mishima was one of the most compelling artistic voices in post-war Japan, he might even have won the Noble prize for literature.
Mishima was mainstream and always a Nobel price candidate. In the 70s this kind of puritanism where anything remotely associated with the axis was taboo didn't exist yet. It's all more recent.
>>219943764I'm just thinking that in Hollywood it pays to play it safe. Incel extremists, sadomasochist suicide pact, and domestic terrorism are not that safe subjects.
>>219943720>Lucas, Coppolathey are all friends of Paul Schrader since their early UCLA daysthe project started from Leonard Schrader, who was obsessed with Mishima since the late 1960s>GlassI'm more suprised that he did the music of Candyman 2
>>219943859Come on. That sentiment may be true for post-Weinstein Hollywood but Hollywood especially in its New Wave era offered directors and writers a lot of freedom of expression.
>>219943720the bodybuilding chapter
The scene where he masturbates to European twinks was kino.
