![]() ![]() While this could be seen as an intrusion, it works. The making of documentary explains that this change was because the Mexican censor didn’t want the locals to look like they needed Americans to save them. The Mexican townspeople originally just want to buy guns to protect themselves but get talked into hiring the gunfighters. In Japan, the townspeople want to find ronin. Even how the Seven come together is altered. Director John Sturges keeps the film popping instead of Americanizing ever scene in Kurasawa shot. The Magnificent Seven is nearly 80 minutes shorter than the original. There are quite a few differences between the films. This is a rather fine adaptation of the Seven Samurai. It’s like a basketball team made up of only shooting guards. This charsima clash seems perfect for a film about seven gunslingers not known for being team players coming together. Coburn doesn’t seem eager to compete to be the real star of the film, but he does dominate the scenes with his knife skills. Plus during the ’60s, Robert Vaughn was hot property. Besides going against the bandits, Yul has to keep Steve McQueen from looking like the real star. ![]() The biggest is that they had one of the greatest macho casts of all time. The Magnificent Seven has become a landmark film for many reasons. But can they really hold the bandit force back with six-shooters and rifles? The seven mercenaries do their best to figure out a way to defeat Calvera. So they agree and Chris hooks them up with six other gun for hires: Vin Tanner ( Bullitt‘s Steve McQueen), Bernando ( One Upon A Time In The West‘s Charles Bronson), Britt ( Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid‘s James Coburn), Lee ( The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’s Robert Vaughn), Harry Luck ( The Asphalt Jungle‘s Brad Dexter). But when they arrive and make a hook up with Chris Adams ( Westworld‘s Yul Brynner), they’re talked into not merely buying guys, but hiring gunslingers. The towns people have had enough of being used and abused so they send a crew off to a border town in America to buy guns. He warns the locals that he’ll be back in a few weeks to collect enough food to keep his outlaw crew fed while they winter in the mountains. Why not a small Mexican farming village dealing with bandits needs to hire seven gunslingers to protect them? The Magnificent Seven translates the Far East to the Old West.Ī remote Mexican farming town finds itself being victimized by Calvera ( The Good, The Bad and The Ugly‘s Eli Wallach) and his crew of 35 bandits. Instead of the Sengoku period of Japan, the basic story could easily take place in the Wild West. A Samauri story wouldn’t have much appeal in small towns and drive-ins, a few producers in Hollywood realized that they needed to transplant the story into a more commercial time to have a hit. The film played cinemas in major cities that appealed to audiences that enjoyed international fare. The film was about seven warriors hired to protect a small village from bandits wanting to steal the harvest. Akira Kurosawa had a major international hit in the mid-50s with Seven Samurai.
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