samurai 7 and the Magnificent 7

**010577** · Sat, 01-08-2005, 09:33 PM

magnificent 7 is an oscar winning movie back in the 60's i think...

about 7 cowboys that rescue a mexican village from bandits.

i know samurai 7 is adopted from the novel which is written a long time ago right?

**kupalmaru** · Sat, 01-08-2005, 09:51 PM

Magnificent 7 is base from the novel Samurai 7

***kAi*** · Sun, 01-09-2005, 12:30 AM

and then there is the movie the seven samurai

**010577** · Sun, 01-09-2005, 09:19 AM

so did the movie itself admit to adopting the storyline?

**Swallow Your Soul** · Sun, 01-09-2005, 04:42 PM

What I heard is that whoever was responsible for making the magnificent 7 liked the idea of the seven samurai but didn't think it would have mainstream appeal in America, so they made it cowboys instead.

I haven't seen any of these movies or the anime, but my lecturer went on about it during a lecture at uni for a while (he had a tendency to ramble off...he started off using the magnificent 7 film as an example of something, but when he found no-one had seen it he went on to describe the history [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img])

**hybridchild** · Thu, 01-13-2005, 11:46 PM

If you watch the magnificent 7 in the openeing credits you'll see it says that its baised on Akira Kurosowa's Seven Samurai, something you'll also see in the credits of Samurai 7

Hybridchild

**PSJ** · Sat, 01-15-2005, 11:59 AM

Originally posted by: 010577
so did the movie itself admit to adopting the storyline?

seven samurai by akira kurosawa is the original its a movie fomr the 50's

Uchiha Obito · Sat, 01-15-2005, 04:46 PM

Yeah, hollywood has done a few remakes of samurai movies as westerns. Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" was remade as "A Fist Full of Dollars".

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