Seven Samurai

...20 years," Woo said. "I grew up with this story - so many heroes I admired. I also wanted to make an epic like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' 'Seven Samurai,' 'Spartacus,' 'Gladiator' - that kind of thing. But it was really hard to make that kind of...

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...Hollywood hit remakes, including The Ring (Ringu), The Grudge (Ju-on) and The Magnificent Seven (Shichinin no samurai, or The Seven Samurai) But this is the first time the Japanese have taken something high-profile from across the Pacific,...

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...this movie for more than 20 years," he said. "I always dreamed about making a movie like 'Lawrence of Arabia' or 'Spartacus' or 'Seven Samurai' -- that scale of movie. And I really love this part of history. This is the most famous battle in...

In this article: John Woo, Red Cliff, Hollywood, People's Republic of China, Zhou Yu, California, Tom Cruise, Hong Kong, Battle of Red Cliffs, and Cao Cao

...triumphs hidden amid the refuse. The John Sayles-scripted BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS is an enjoyable space-bound riff on the SEVEN SAMURAI formula - and the sets for that film were memorably reused in Aaron Lipstadt's thoughtful ANDROID and...

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...in the end. Which is where James Cameron picked up when he directed Piranha 2. After Piranha I wrote Battle Beyond the Stars. It's basically Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven in Space. He liked those kinds of ideas. It was a good way to...

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This is the deceptively simple story told in grand yet subtle fashion by master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in his classic 1954 work The Seven Samurai. I first discovered this film and its director more than 25 years ago at the Metro Theater on...

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...blockbuster in the "Transformers" sense - there won't be objects exploding left and right - but in the classic "Doctor Zhivago" or "Seven Samurai" way. "I think that Catherine Hardwicke had a very current pop sensibility and rock...

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...sweep to make De Mille envious, and the kind of violent excitement you remember from movies like Alexander Nevsky and The Seven Samurai, cutting artfully between intimate clashes and mass patterns with skies of hailing arrows, ramparts...

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...up, these objects - a seductive blend of art and deadly weapon - draw you in. Even if you're not a fan of films like Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai," you can't look at one of these gleaming blades without imagining how swiftly it might cleave a...

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...weight and actors used their faces, eyes and gestures to express emotion. That heightened acting style, also to be seen in Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" and several other period pictures, plays well here because many of the sequences are,...

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