The Good, The Bad and The Remake: Movie Podcast
TV & Film:Film Reviews
Episode 10 - Seven Samurai & The Magnificent Seven
We believe in going out with a bang and, perhaps, saving the best for last. That's why this week Neal, Catherine and Ben will be tackling two classic, epic interpretations of the same story.
Up first is the indisputable masterpiece from Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai - featuring the Japanese John Wayne, Toshiro Mifune - a 3.5-hour, black and white, subtitled film from the 1950s. But don't let that put you off, it's genuinely really entertaining.
Then - vying for the final Remazing of the series - is John Sturges' 1960 Americanisation, The Magnificent Seven. Adapted into English and updated into colour, cutting an hour and a half of runtime and enlisting Hollywood legends in the shapes of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson and Eli Wallach in the process, can Sturges stand a chance of matching the great Japanese master?
It's a hotly contested battle and neither film comes out unscathed.
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Music is 'Bring Me the West' by phlaala
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