Un-narrowed Re: Movies

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 07:23:46 -0500 devans@uneb.edu wrote:
 
[Snip Doug's small faux pas regarding Kagemusha <g>]

> Westerns were big for him [Kurosawa]; you can certainly see that in 
Yojimbo and Sanjuro. I haven't figured which came first, those two or 
the spaghetti westerns, but they are very close. <

Kurosawa! The Italians made "For a Fistful of Dollars" and "For a Few 
Dollars More" almost directly from them (I think Sanjuro became FaFoD, 
and Yojimbo FaFDM) much as "The Magnificent Seven" was a Western 
version of Seven Samurai. Of course, TM7 then went on to be imitated 
itself, "Battle Beyond the Stars" being but one of the later versions.

Phil
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