That is almost exactly what my description was for Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, which is both a good and bad thing in my opinion. It is a very simple story with great characters. Therein lying the issue, a group of seven horsemen/gunmen are recruited to take down these bandits upon their return. The film begins with a group of bandits who threaten to return to terrorize the town if they do not have their food handed over to them upon their return. Although I did not try to see the differences throughout this version, it was very hard to ignore the fact that there are some lines of dialogue literally delivered verbatim. Did it improve on anything that the Akira Kurosawa version failed to achieve? Lets talk The Magnificent Seven (1960).įollowing the events from Akira Kurosawa's 1954 masterpiece, it was already clear there was a high bar to match. With that on the table, 1960's The Magnificent Seven followed directly in the footsteps of the 1954 Japanese samurai film, Seven Samurai. This has been done since the very beginning of cinema. Today for example, the Swedish horror film Let the Right One In is released, only to be remade a year or so later as an American film, retitled Let Me In. Nowadays, people complain that there are far too many remakes of classic films, but what they don't realize is that there are quite a few remakes from the past as well. Whether or not a film is remade or just simply takes place within the same genre, people come to expect certain things when seeing a familiar storyline.
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