The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven – John Sturges
The original film? 1960.
Amusing music.
Great lines.
Harry please don't understand me so fast.
Later…
it's not so bad, I fell in with a fast crowd yesterday that hangs out near the fountain. They got to predicting the weather, today didn’t break until twilight.
We’ve all been in small towns.
Gently, boy. Gently.
Only a matter of knowing how to shoot again. Nothing big about that.
We're surrounded. What do we do?
Keep on fighting.
I knew a man in El Paso who took off all his clothes and jumped on a cactus.
Seemed like a good idea at the time.
In Texas only Texans can rob banks!
With a musical interlude that has nothing to do with the movie, right?
The Magnificent Seven – The Clash
Totally unrelated. Still, the titles held the two together in my own mind. I’m not always right.
The lines from the movie — original 1960 — I would pause and rewind the digital copy to attempt to transcribe the lines correctly, the banter was brilliant. Not having seen the original, The Seven Samurai, I have no basis for comparison. But the upcoming trailers for the remake looked like fun.
The original movie was epic, and apparently — looking at the links — spawned a number of sequels. Pretty hard to imagine that when all but two of the main characters are killed off in the first movie. Looking at the original release date, and how young some the actors were? 1960?
Predates me, for sure.
I can say I’ve seen the classic and it rates right up there with the other epic trilogy of real spaghetti westerns — August of 2004. Spin that around and balance it against the Xmas classic, The Hateful Eight, or the neo-noir-ish western-ish, Hell or High Water.
Do love me some Westerns.
The Magnificent Seven: 2016
It’s a remake. Sounds like some of the original score was reused, cool. Most of the original plot was recycled. Excellent bloodbath at the end. Good pacing. Not too much plot to get in the way. True to the original source, from what trailers ran at the Alamo Drafthouse, always the best place to see a movie. Always.
As we were walking out, my buddy — (Latin Male) — observed, “Hey, hey, did you notice, only the minorities survived at the end?”
He laughed.
A classic update and a non-Tarantino meditation on cinematic violence and how the west was won.
The original was better written, but that doesn’t stop the remake from being a blast.
The Magnificent Seven – John Sturges
The Magnificent Seven Collection [Blu-ray]
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