Seven Samurai

[EliSnow]

<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">So, the wife is out with friends, the baby is in bed, and I have a mason jar filled with Knob Creek and Coke, and I'm watching the Criterion edition of Seven Samurai.&nbsp; Great flick. I think this is going to set off a Akira Kurosawa run of movies for me to watch.&nbsp; I've seen The Magnificent Seven, and as good as that was, this movie is far better.&nbsp; Out of all of the foreign directors out there, is there any of them more influential than Kurosawa?&nbsp;&nbsp;Maybe Fellini or Bergmann.&nbsp; But, with&nbsp;this movie, and Rashomon, Yojimbo, HIidden Fortress, and Ran, amongst others, these are some top influential movies on American cinema.</font>

[reeshy]

<p>I loved Yojimbo and the seven samarai....I watched thed them several times...although the subtitiles are tough.....the action is great!!!!</p><p>.</p>

[Gvac]

<p>Blowhard's been urging me to watch this movie for years now and I've still never seen it.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>If Eli's raving about it too I guess I just may have to finally watch it. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[HBox]

Hayao Miyazaki is very influential on the animated front.<br />

[EliSnow]

<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">I should add that I've had several mason jars of Knob Creek and coke, so my evaluation that Kurosawa may be the most influential foreign born director may be a little off, but not by much.&nbsp; </font></p>

[EliSnow]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Blowhard's been urging me to watch this movie for years now and I've still never seen it.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>If Eli's raving about it too I guess I just may have to finally watch it. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">You have too.&nbsp; I think that Kurosawa is a great well rounded storyteller.&nbsp; You have &quot;action&quot; movies like Seven Samurai and Yojimbo (which was remade into a Fistful of Dollars), you have a thought provoking movie like Rashomon (telling the same story from four different POV), and you have other epic movies like Ran, plus a whole host of others.&nbsp; </font></p>

[feralBoy]

<p>Yojimbo was also made into &quot;Last Man Standing&quot;, which was a supreme piece of shit.&nbsp; </p><p>If any of you guys are interested, they will be playing &quot;The Seven Samurai&quot; at the walter reade theatre in lincoln center on October 14 at 7:30pm.&nbsp; I am definitely going, because it may be one of the few chances I have to see that on a big screen.&nbsp; Should be awesome.&nbsp; tickets are like 10 bucks I think.</p>

[reeshy]

<p>Feralboy,</p><p>we should make this a board event for the stricly intellectual........me and GVAC will make it a date.....at least for us!!!!!&nbsp;</p>

[ADF]

I was never a big fan of Ran and the like, but Seven Samurai is one of the greatest movies of all time.<br />

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>*rubs his forehead*</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Sheeplovr]

Goerge Lucas stole alot from Hidden Fortress <br />

[feralBoy]

<strong>reeshy</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Feralboy,</p><p>we should make this a board event for the stricly intellectual........me and GVAC will make it a date.....at least for us!!!!!&nbsp;</p><p>That would be awesome if a bunch of people from the board came.&nbsp; I talked to three friends last night who said they are interested in coming as well.&nbsp; If people do wind up coming, maybe we can all meet up for a beer before or after.</p>

[TokeOne]

I agree that Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bergmann are the tops, but Bernardo Bertolucci, Roman Polanski, and Nagisa Oshima deserve mention.

[Johnny4]

<font size="2">Kurasowa Rules. Last year on either AMC or one of those they had a marathon of his films.&nbsp; I was in coach potato glory.He affected American storylines and film makers(especially commercial) more than anyone.</font>

[Yerdaddy]

<strong>feralBoy</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Yojimbo was also made into &quot;Last Man Standing&quot;, which was a supreme piece of shit.&nbsp; </p><p>If any of you guys are interested, they will be playing &quot;The Seven Samurai&quot; at the walter reade theatre in lincoln center on October 14 at 7:30pm.&nbsp; I am definitely going, because it may be one of the few chances I have to see that on a big screen.&nbsp; Should be awesome.&nbsp; tickets are like 10 bucks I think.</p><p>I highly reccommend seeing this in the theater. I saw it and Ran&nbsp;at the Kennedy Center a few years back and it's just a whole other level of movie on the big screen. This is the way you'll remember the movie: the time you saw it in the theater.</p><p>And Reeshy's always good for a handy.</p>

[JustJon]

Kurosawa is a genius.&nbsp; All you heathens should go out and buy all his movies on dvd right now!<br />

[RapistWit]

Akira Kurosawa's <em>Dreams </em>was an amazing collection of vignettes. It looks amazing on DVD. Pick it up if you get a chance.

[TokeOne]

<strong>RapistWit</strong> wrote:<br />Akira Kurosawa's <em>Dreams </em>was an amazing collection of vignettes. It looks amazing on DVD. Pick it up if you get a chance. <p>I love Dreams. My favorite one is when the boy goes out and sees the foxes and they give the mother a knife because he needs to kill himself now. I saw that for the first time in film class at the University of Georgia and I was blown away.</p>

[Terragen]

I finally rented Seven Samurai a couple months ago - blown away, I immediately watched all 3 hours again (Criterion). With commentary. I need to see these other flicks. If I ever hear that this is playing somewhere, I'll post it. Toshiro Mifune rules!

[LordJezo]

<p>

</p><p class="MsoNormal">Does Samurai 7, the anime interpretation of the story, count
for anything?</p>

<p> </p><p><img border="0" src="http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/2172/s7dl2.jpg" /> </p><p>It has robots and mechs and stuff.<br /></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by LordJezo on 9-21-06 @ 10:55 AM</span>

[Yerdaddy]

NO

[JustJon]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>LordJezo</strong> wrote:<br /><p>

</p><p class="MsoNormal">Does Samurai 7, the anime interpretation of the story, count
for anything?</p>

<p> </p><p><br /> </p><p>It has robots and mechs and stuff.<br /></p>

<span class="post_edited">This message was edited by LordJezo on 9-21-06 @ 10:55 AM</span><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It counts for 13 hours of your life.</p><p>I've been watching that on IFC.&nbsp; It's good but too drawn out.&nbsp;</p>

[feralBoy]

<p>If anyone is interested the seven samurai is playing on the big screen tonight.</p><p><a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/janus/thesevensamurai.html">http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/janus/thesevensamurai.html</a></p><p>It's at the walter reade theatre, which is on 65th street in lincoln center.&nbsp; </p>

[sailor]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>feralBoy</strong> wrote:<br /><p>If anyone is interested the seven samurai is playing on the big screen tonight.</p><p><a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/janus/thesevensamurai.html">http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/janus/thesevensamurai.html</a></p><p>It's at the walter reade theatre, which is on 65th street in lincoln center. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">interesting, i'll have to consider that.&nbsp; i so wanted to get into his movies.&nbsp; i have a copy of ran, but everytime i watch it, it literally puts me to sleep.&nbsp; i think it might be the subtitles, but the pacing is also a bit slow for me.</font> <br /></p>

[CofyCrakCocaine]

<p>Shit, I completely missed the show at lincoln center. I remember seeing this topic a couple months ago and I just assumed it was playing in September so I figured it was too late. Damn my lazy ass for not checking up earlier.</p><p>Did anyone see Ikiru and enjoy it? That's the next Kurosawa film I'm going to watch I think. I liked Kagemusha, interesting to see his movies with color. Interesting when you imagine what Seven Samurai would have looked like with color.</p><p>I neglected to watch Seven Samurai until the night before I had to do a big performance back in 2004, and the movie managed to relax me and immerse me so effectively that I will never forget that night and the sheer enjoyment I felt watching that movie. One of the greatest, no doubt.&nbsp;</p>

[Yerdaddy]

<strong>CofyCrakCocaine</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Did anyone see Ikiru and enjoy it? That's the next Kurosawa film I'm going to watch I think. I liked Kagemusha, interesting to see his movies with color. Interesting when you imagine what Seven Samurai would have looked like with color.</p><p>Ikiru is a great movie. It's not one of Kurosawa's samurai or gangster movies, but it's a great exsistential&nbsp;story about the meaning of life, set in post-war Japan. It's been copied a few times, naturally, but this is the king daddy. Naturally.</p><p>I think Seven Samurai would have certainly looked worse in color. It was one of the best looking&nbsp;black and white movies ever. The cinematography for the final battle scene in the rain alone was a masterpiece. Don't go changing...</p>

[CofyCrakCocaine]

<p>'Interesting' does not neccessarily mean good. It just means it would be interesting. Obviously, the film, all of his films, are fantastic and look good because they are in black and white. Black and white films seem to last well in comparison to color films from the 60's and 70's. Kagemusha was made in 1980, so I wouldn't be surprised if the color film was of a better quality than color would be in 1954. </p><p>&nbsp;Looking forward to Ikiru. And please, if anyone knows about any Kurosawa movies playing in New York City or the general tri-state area, let us know. </p>