![]() After the samurai form their team, the middle of the film is devoted to exploring their growing relationship with the villagers, as they train them to become a defensive fighting force and slowly bond. It takes nearly an hour to get the team together, with each of the seven swordsmen given a leisurely introduction that displays his character and competency. The difficulty of the shoot, and the sheer will it took to make it through, is evident in the final film, which plows through its extended running time with an intensity that is both brutal and measured. The extended final fight between the samurai and the bandits was shot in the depths of winter, with the sandaled cast slogging painfully through nearly frozen mud. Clocking in at nearly three and a half hours long, the film is an epic in every sense: Its $500,000 budget made it the most expensive film ever produced in Japan up until that point, and filming took 148 days, far longer than initially planned. The clarity and simplicity of Kurosawa’s plot belie Seven Samurai’s elemental grandeur. Kurosawa’s structure allows for heavy themes without sacrificing momentum And it is a reminder, as Hollywood plots have grown both flimsier and more complex, of the virtues of a simple, straightforward story told well. ![]() That combination of durability and flexibility is a big part of why Kurosawa’s beloved and widely imitated film has remained so influential for so long. And like many myths, it’s a story that can be told and retold in almost any setting, with almost any set of characters, like a classic cocktail that allows for practically endless variation. It’s primal and elegant, a story so simple that it works almost at the level of myth. In each version of this story, many of the details have been changed - the location, the particulars of the villain’s plot, the mix of characters who make up the team of protectors - but the bones remain the same: A bad guy threatens a small town the villagers hire a wandering protector who gathers a motley crew of fighters the fighters fortify the town there’s a protracted assault some of the fighters die the village is saved. ![]() Seven Samurai established an elegant, primal cinematic template It’s also how the story went in Seven Samurai, the 1954 Akira Kurosawa samurai epic on which the Sturges film was based. It's one of The Magnificent Seven’s strengths, though you can't quite credit the movie itself, because that's also almost exactly how everything happened in the 1960 Sturges film. Everyone in the movie is exactly who he or she seems to be from the outset, and everything happens exactly as you expect it to happen. There are no twists or turns, no reversals or reveals, no complex backstories or hidden motives. That’s the whole plot, the complete story. There’s a final guns-blazing shootout, and the town is saved, though not everyone makes it out alive. There’s an initial encounter between Chisholm’s men and Bogue’s, and then a period of waiting and preparation before Bogue and his army of thugs return, which they do. ![]() Lacking the ability to fight back themselves, they decide to hire a gunman, a bounty hunter named Chisholm ( Denzel Washington).Ĭhisholm rounds up a half-dozen more men of varying talents and personalities, and they form a team determined to protect the town. ![]() The movie, a remake of the classic 1960 John Sturges Western of the same name, starts when a villainous robber baron, Bartholomew Bogue ( Peter Sarsgaard), threatens a small mining town and the villagers vow to resist. The most surprising thing about The Magnificent Seven is how unsurprising it is. ![]()
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