Why didn´t Arseniev get a pair of glasses for Derusu?
Anyone have a suggestion?
"Bara bip, bara bap, bara bop, bara bip." Santino Corleone.
Good question! We can only assume, but Dersu might have had some sort of superstitious objection against wearing glasses.
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Or macular degeneration
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Even with glasses, he would have a choice of seeing the gun sights or zeroing in on the target but not both at the same time.
a nice question..my opinion is that
If Arseniev got Dersu a pair of glasses, then there would not have been a reason for Dersu to go to the city and see how the people of the city live. If the glasses worked for him, he would have stayed in the forest and we would not have been able to see the wonderful climax of the film.
One more question arises now: If Arseniev gave a pair of glasses to Dersu, would Dersu have accepted them? I dont know.
Dersu seemed to connect his loss of eyesight with being cursed for shooting the tiger. He may have felt that attempting to remove the curse by use of glasses would be a further insult to the gods.
shareThe film is based on a best-selling 1923 book of memoirs by Captain Vladimir Arsenyev. Kurosawa is said to have stuck closely to the book.
shareI've read the English translation:
http://www.amazon.com/Dersu-Trapper-Recovered-Classics-Arseniev/dp/092 9701496/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276233597&sr=1-1
They remove one of the expeditions, folding some of its events into the remaining ones, but it's otherwise an extremely faithful adaptation.
So, then what WAS the reason? Did Dersu feel he was deservedly cursed, or was it a condition that couldn't be helped by glasses?
Interesting question.
She deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die.
Judging by the way he couldn't see the target when he looked directly at it and tried to focus on it, I would also suspect a condition like cataracts or macular degeneration.
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It was in the early 1900's, and possibly eyeglasses weren't that common or easy to come by in Russia back then. After all they lived in the economy that aroused communist revolution.
shareBut anyone of the officer class could afford to buy spectacles, and any reasonable-sized town would have had at least one optician selling them. (And we know it's a reasonable-sized town, as it has a municipal park.) My guess is, as another poster said, that it was a condition that glasses wouldn't help.
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