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Quote Originally Posted by BHz_econo

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Seven Samurai

Yojimbo

 

 

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I love those old samurai films. They're like far eastern westerns.


In fact, wasn't A Fist Full of Dollars basically a remake of Yojimbo?

 

Yes, but interestingly all of those samurai movies owed a huge debt to western movies before that. After WWII, American movies started hitting Europe and Japan again and people started seeing a bunch of movies simultaneously that Americans saw over the course of several years.


One weird thing that happened was that people saw John Ford westerns in a short period of time and started realizing that there were significant similarities in all of his movies, something Americans hadn't picked up on. The conventional wisdom in moviemaking at that time was that directors were basically middle management on the movie assembly line and not artists in their own right that added anything. The idea of a movie director being an "auteur" originated from that study abroad of John Ford. Foreign westerns by 'auteur' directors hitting America and being critically important is really things kind of coming full circle.

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Quote Originally Posted by BHz_econo

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Seven Samurai

Yojimbo

 

 

Quote Originally Posted by RUExp?

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I love those old samurai films. They're like far eastern westerns.


In fact, wasn't A Fist Full of Dollars basically a remake of Yojimbo?

 

Yes, but interestingly all of those samurai movies owed a huge debt to western movies before that. After WWII, American movies started hitting Europe and Japan again and people started seeing a bunch of movies simultaneously that Americans saw over the course of several years.


One weird thing that happened was that people saw John Ford westerns in a short period of time and started realizing that there were significant similarities in all of his movies, something Americans hadn't picked up on. The conventional wisdom in moviemaking at that time was that directors were basically middle management on the movie assembly line and not artists in their own right that added anything. The idea of a movie director being an "auteur" originated from that study abroad of John Ford. Foreign westerns by 'auteur' directors hitting America and being critically important is really things kind of coming full circle.

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