Posted on 04/26/2016 6:00:12 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Martin Sensmeier star in The Magnificent Seven as seven hired guns enlisted to help the people of Rose Creek, who are being exploited by a merciless killer.
Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story, according to IMDB. With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers, and hired guns. As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
The story is originally based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai.
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Mexicans? That’s racist.
They’ll be defending the village against evil white Texan cattle ranchers who cross the border to raid the Mexican village.
..with the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection...
Somehow,I don’t think the wealthy industrialist is a George Soros type.
And the bad guys are all white men.
Magnificent Seven was a copy of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.
And Seven Samurai was deliberately a “Japanese Western” - as was Yojimbo - which became Clint Eastwood’s “Fistful of Dollars”.
People copy each other in chains of inspiration.
Kurosawa deliberately made “westerns” set in Japan, as things would not go down that way in historical Japan. So it was a highly detailed and extremely Japanese, from architecture to peasant customs to how people move, so the fundamentally wild premise works, the audience suspends disbelief.
This movie seems rather weak and contrived though. They could have remade Magnificent Seven/Seven Samurai in space or on Mars or on the Silent Planet and it could work with this cast.
Can you expound on that view of a western set in historical Japan? I’m interested. I can surmise, but I’d like your take on it.
Kurosawa deliberately set out to make a “western”.
With Cruise it would have only been 6 1/2.
lol. yeah, but i could picture him in that movie.
oh well. I’ll see it cause of old Vince. :)
Denzel Washington BLAH
It isn’t really historical Japan, because the notion of a village with no feudal master/protector makes no historical sense.
The peasants use initiative (ahistorical) to hire masterless samurai (historical), but who consent to serve a collective, not a feudal master. This doesn’t fit.
Magnificent Seven also doesn’t work historically, because the village they work for is Mexican.
He did a good job, then. I made all my boys watch it and they still talk about it and use it as a barometer.
Okay I can see that in the fuedal system. But I’m not so sure it doesn’t fit in Mexico. Granted it might be unlikely but I thought the whole idea of going north of the border was to hire Americans since they’d be neutral in terms of Mexican politics.
I hate it when someone ruins a perfectly good movie with historical facts. LOL.
Oh no! Not another remake!
It will still be a “Magnificent 7 movie”, not the “Magnificent 8 or 12 or 15”.
How many new themes can you put into a straight plot movie?
See the original M7 by the Japanese director Kurasawa?. Then see the first US version with Yul Brenner. After that, turn off the TV.
The original just can’t be recreated. The ensemble cast was just too great. Some movies like that one, and “the Professionals” should be left alone. But we will probably watch it as we like Denzel.
The “True Grit” remake was pure POOP!
***There are only about four stories out there anyway.***
I read years ago that there are twenty eight different plots for a Western movie. The joke is....What are the other twenty four?
I have a feeling that p.c. modernizing this Kurosawa classic is going to be as big a stinker as was the reboot of The Alamo (if anyone remembers it).
That is, production budget of $107m, domestic b.o. of $22.4m.
Hollywood lacks pattern recognition.
***They could have remade Magnificent Seven/Seven Samurai in space or on Mars....***
Already been done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Beyond_the_Stars
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