Re: Getting nailed from Way Far Away (tm)

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On Tue, 29 May 2001, David Brewer wrote:

> Ryan Gill wrote:
> 
> > Similar thing happened in Ran, though I don't know if
> > Kurosawa was reading Confederate exploits or not.
> 
> FWIW, not Ran but Kagemusha. Kurosawa was very influenced by
> American films, especially Westerns, so perhaps he might have
> heard this story.

It worked both ways, with 'a fistful of dollars' being a remake of
'Seven
Samurai', and 'Star Wars' borrowing from 'The hidden fortress' ;)

I'mnot sure Kurusawa was influenced by westerns (simply do't know). I
_am_
sure it worked the other way as well.

Cheers,

   Derk
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