Posted on 04/26/2016 6:00:12 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Martin Sensmeier star in The Magnificent Seven as seven hired guns enlisted to help the people of Rose Creek, who are being exploited by a merciless killer.
Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story, according to IMDB. With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers, and hired guns. As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
The story is originally based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai.
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Mexican politics has always had so many sides that this doesn’t work. Mexico is diverse, ethnically and politically, and has always had a floating class of desperate men available to anyone with money or people skills. Pancho Villa was not a fluke.
Hiring Americans wasn’t really a thing, other than for technical or management skills. And at that time Mexico was just as if not more likely to have a bunch of Europeans - Spaniards, Germans - see Mariano Azuela hating on the local Spaniards (19th century immigrants like the Irish or Jews in the US) in “Underdogs” (los de abajo); or Linda Rondstadts great-grandpa, one of those 19th century Germans that gave Mexico a horde of brass bands.
I thought it was excellent - the remake of True Grit.
The language, characters and plot were far more faithful to the original novel, which really should be read. So also its humor.
“True Grit” - Charles Portis
This is a book that SHOULD be assigned as high school reading.
Missed that one !
No great loss, probably.
You learn something every day. Thanks.
I’m not interested in a politically correct bastardization of a classic western. This looks like nothing but propaganda where Mexican bandits are replaced by white businessmen as villains and white male heroes are replaced by a bunch of token minorities. F that.
How doesn’t it work? A Mexican village attacked by Mexican bandits is implausible? Mexican villagers running across Anglo gunmen willing to help and who recruit more of their friends?
They are just not sophisticated enough to find a decent novel at the library.
All they needed was a woman and a transgender, but then it would have to be "The Magnificent Nine" which doesn't have the same ring.
Leni
Best comment:
“The Politically Correct and Properly Diverse Seven”
LMAO
Sounds like a PC stink-a-roo.
Mexican village would defend itself (Zapata was not unique and Mexican peasants had arms), this would be the communal landholding Indio villages; haciendas would have a hacendero, the local squire, armed, and he would appeal to the rurales (they existed for precisely this reason), or yes, they certainly could appeal to another local gang in the state, of which there may well have been a variety.
Looking for Americans would have been weird.
I believe that he’s also a Christian that loves America and supports the military.
lemme guess...
Jesse Ventura?
"The Faahbulous Seven"
We deal in lead, friend.
Yes, the ‘Professionals’ another great movie!
Who can replace John Wayne!
Never seen a “remake” that didn’t suck. I won’t be watching this one. All. Originality in Hollywood is dead.
***Never seen a “remake” that didn’t suck.***
The Maltese Falcon of 1941 was a great remake of the 1931 Matese Falcon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_%28novel%29
LAST OF THE COMANCHES was a remake of Bogart’s SAHARA.
COLORADO TERRITORY was a remake of HIGH SIERRA.
Then there was Silvester Stallone in DAYLIGHT (1996) a direct ripoff of the plot to THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE(1972) without the ship.
Some are good, some should have been burnt.
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