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Seven Samurai

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rico,

There is something about "Seven Samurai" that makes it the most "complete" movie I can think of- humour, tragedy, adventure, action, both personal and social issues and all amazingly acted, photographed, edited and scored in a way that I can't conceive of improving.

The key to it's success is not only it's completeness in story, character, and movie craft, but the very high level of convincing atmosphere. This is a movie that makes me believe that life in a small village in 17th Century life must've have been exactly like that- it "rings" true and when I see other attempts to show it, I measure these apptempts against "Seven".

"Jojimbo" and "Throne of Blood" nhave many of the same charactersitics- Jojimbo as a metaphor for the Cold War is another interesting level and Throne of Blood as Macbeth is an added dimension, but these metaphors make these film a bit more removed form the realism of Samurai. Still "Throne" is almost perfect in it's way and perhaps even more beautifully photographed than Samurai.

Also, contrary to usual Hollywood techinique with a successful movie, Kurosawa wisely refrained from the sequel, "The Four Remaining Samurai." Of course, Samurai was so brilliant there was a Hollywood sequel "The Magnificant Seven" , but to me this is only a poor tribute.

Cheers,

Bambi B

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