The pilot episode of The A-Team literally copies the plot of The Magnificent Seven lock, stock and barrel, as it has the team helping to defend a group of farmers from a bunch of bikers. The creators of the show always maintained that it was an updated version of The Magnificent Seven , with the cowboys changed to soldiers of fortune, and with only four main characters instead of the seven from the movie. Believe it or not, horror writer Stephen King wrote a novel in that is based on The Magnificent Seven.
In the story, gunslinger and protagonist Roland Deschain defends a small village from a raiding party that steals children once a generation. Calla Bryn Sturgis,? The similarity to The Magnificent Seven is directly referenced, and leads Roland and his allies from 20th century New York to realize, partway through the book, that they are actually taking part in a similar story.
The novel also includes the line? Mister, we deal in lead,? The score and soundtrack for The Magnificent Seven is widely considered to be one of the best in movie history, and certainly the very best ever for a western movie.
Created by legendary composer Elmer Bernstein, the score was actually nominated for an Academy Award, the only one the film would garner it lost to the movie Exodus. In addition, the score has kind of taken on a life of its own in recent years.
Beginning with the Wrecking Ball tour, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band began playing the theme from the movie when they take the stage at concerts. Fuqua was upset, then got the idea for Sensmeier to have his hair cut into a Mohawk. Goofs Despite hundreds of shots and explosions, only men's bodies are on the ground, no dead or wounded horses.
Quotes Sam Chisolm : What we lost in the fire, we found in the ashes. Crazy credits Part of the closing credits are a montage of the Magnificent Seven and their actor credits, which ends with a big red seven that contains the faces of the seven.
The theme from The Magnificent Seven plays over this montage. User reviews Review. Top review. An energetic and highly entertaining Western.
The Western has long become a rarity on the big screen, replaced over the last few decades as the dominant action genre first by bulging muscles and explosions, then by spandex and superpowers.
So this big-budget remake of the classic comes as a welcome breath of tobacco-filled air, even if it doesn't quite live up to its predecessor. But as a piece of popcorn entertainment, it fires on all cylinders.
Not surprisingly with Antoine Fuqua Training Day, The Equalizer, Shooter calling the shots, subtlety is pushed aside for frenetic set pieces and belief-defying heroics, especially in the wild climactic showdown that demonstrates minimal CGI does not equal minimal fun.
Amongst all the balletic gunplay and macho posturing there's a relatively simple story: town is overrun by a dastardly villain Peter Sarsgaard oozing creepiness , town employs cowboys-for-hire guess how many for protection, town fights with said cowboys leading the way. That the plot requires little more explanation then that highlights the focus of the movie, for better and for worse, however the fact it never feels shallow or superficial can be attributed to the exhilarating action and the ultra-cool cast.
And what a fantastic cast it is. Denzel Washington is reliably charismatic as the contemplative leader, Chris Pratt is magnetic as the group's joker, Ethan Hawke is intense as the tormented sniper, Byung-hun Lee is enigmatic as the blade-wielding assassin, Vincent D'Onofrio is intriguing as the philosophical killer and Haley Bennett is fierce as the townswoman who stands her ground. Best of all, the eclectic characters — also including Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as the rowdy Mexican and Martin Sensmeier as the Indian warrior — share a wonderful chemistry that makes them utterly watchable from start to finish.
An energetic remake with style to spare, The Magnificent Seven is a rip-roaring adventure that'll please long-neglected Western fans to no end. In his latest film, Akira Kurosawa Rashomon has plucked the epic string…. The story is set in medieval Japan, when the common people groaned beneath the rule of outlaw and disorder. A village in a valley is its hero and its theme. Loud are the wails of its inhabitants when a farmer who has overheard some bandits plotting on the hill comes down to tell the village that it will be raided as soon as the rice is cut.
But one man, Rikichi Yoshio Tsuchiya , whose wife was carried off in the last raid, does not wail; he resolves to fight. Brynner understood how iconic his role as Chris was, appearing in Italian Westerns as a thinly veiled version of the character, and starring in Westworld only a year after the final Magnificent film was released.
Westworld transformed Brynner into a technological golem, casting him as a robot built in the Chris Adams image. The silent humiliation of a machine designed to lose sat well with Brynner, who finally gets loose and enacts the last third of The Terminator a decade early. Made in , it is influenced by second-wave spaghetti Western filmmakers like Sergio Corbucci. Director Paul Wendkos shot the film with an eye toward graphic framing instead of flat American Western compositions.
The final film in the series, the entry The Magnificent Seven Ride! The film is closer to The Dirty Dozen than The Magnificent Seven , with a reluctant Adams recruiting six criminals from a prison transport to help him defend yet another small Mexican village. This movie focuses more on the tactics than the team-building. There are no standout performances and it looks exactly like what it was — an attempt to catch up to and cash in on the style of the day. It could be a TV show, and the stakes are low enough that it might as well be.
The series pilot was directed by the New Zealander Geoff Murphy who helmed Young Guns II , and was about a small Seminole village that hires a new Seven to defend it from a regiment of Confederate soldiers. The cast in the TV version includes the usually Teflon Michael Biehn in the Chris role, but everything here is so diluted, with bland, faceless, sub— Walker, Texas Ranger aesthetics. Somehow it ran for two seasons. The transitions between the films in the Magnificent series reflect the social and commercial forces surrounding the Western at the times of their respective releases.
Kurosawa was most interested in skillful people trying to save a society that has left them behind, thus ensuring their obsolescence.
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