{"id":31,"date":"2008-05-04T03:32:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T03:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/warrocketajax\/2008\/05\/04\/variations-on-samurai\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T01:59:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:59:39","slug":"variations-on-samurai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/warrocketajax\/2008\/05\/04\/variations-on-samurai\/","title":{"rendered":"Variations on Samurai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/mood_cool.gif\" alt=\"Cool\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Mood:<\/strong> Cool&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/action_play.gif\" alt=\"Playing Battleship with Death...\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Currently:<\/strong> Playing Battleship with Death&#8230;&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ab3194.k12.sd.us\/events\/pictures\/seven-samurai-primer.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;line-height: normal\">I <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">love<\/span> Kurosawa.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Granted, I haven&#8217;t seen the majority of Kurosawa&#8217;s films, though I own a number of them on general principal. To paraphrase Sting, as <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Fayd Rautha<\/span>: <span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">will<\/span> view them!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Likewise, I haven&#8217;t yet read the autobiography of Kurosawa that I received several years ago on my birthday. There&#8217;s so much to read between marathon Oblivion\/Xbox 360 sessions. <\/p>\n<p>Really, I&#8217;m just making excuses. I&#8217;ve watched <span style=\"font-style: italic\">every<\/span> Zatoichi film, even the elusive number 14, ordered on eBay (thank you, France!). Ditto a number of the Ichi television series episodes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done Akira wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I suffered through <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Hidden Fortress<\/span> because Lucas said it was part of his inspiration for Star Wars. <br \/>\nInspiration, my @$$. Maybe he was &quot;inspired&quot; to make a movie with a pulse! Those two hours of boredom are just one more thing Lucas owes me an apology for. <\/p>\n<p>I watched <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Rashomon<\/span>. <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Twice<\/span>. I almost get it. They say the third time&#8217;s the charm. <\/p>\n<p>But what I want to touch on here is the proliferation of film references (&quot;remakes,&quot; &quot;reimaginings,&quot; what-have-you) to Seven Samurai, arguably one of Kurosawa&#8217;s best films. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanlegends.com\/actors\/eili%20wallach\/images\/magnificent-7.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is, of course, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Magnificent Seven<\/span>. It is one of my all-time absolute favorite, I-don&#8217;t-have-enough-adjectives-for-how-I-feel movies. <\/p>\n<p>A (supposed) scene from Seven Samurai was featured briefly during the &quot;first date&quot; segment of the Kevin Costner\/Whitney Houston collaboration, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Bodygaurd<\/span>&#8211;not to be confused with the great 1980 film, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">My Bodygaurd<\/span>, that started Adam Baldwin on his long journey to playing the likes of Knowle Rohrer, Jayne Cobb, Marcus Hamilton, and John Casey.  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">You&#8217;ll always be Linderman to me, Adam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Seven Samurai&#8217;s inspiration can be seen indirectly in such films as <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Three Amigos<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic\">A Bug&#8217;s Life<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>More immediate examples are <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Battle Beyond The Stars<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Galaxy Quest<\/span>.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are more than just these, but let&#8217;s go from here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/b\/b5\/Battlebeyondthestars.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The little Roger Corman-directed John-Boy vehicle above even starred one of the stars from the star-studded (a pun I use willingly), majestic Seven Samurai &quot;re-imagining,&quot; <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Magnificent Seven<\/span>: the one and only Robert Vaughn! He played the same character, too, with many of the same lines, except <span style=\"font-style: italic\">innnn Spaaaaaaace!<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The other main draw of that sad little film was not the special effects&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviestore.com\/thumbnails\/150thumbs\/248078.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantreviewers.com\/rbbts4.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is it any wonder I have a (soft) spot for Boobs McGillicutty, a.k.a. Sybil Danning? <br \/>\nOddly, though, the ship below was flown by Richard Thomas&#8217;s unbelievably poorly named character, Shad. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.badmovies.org\/movies\/battlebeyond\/battlebeyond1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t skimp on the breastfeeding, ladies. Your babies will grow up to fly ships like that one.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t name your babies <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Shad<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine why, but somehow, somewhere, the soundtrack to that movie exists, too: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/sfw\/issue237\/stars.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enough badgering of that terrible waste of my youth that I watched every time I caught a glance of it on cable in the &#8217;80s, though. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodnews.com\/images9\/Galaxy-Quest-Poster.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Galaxy Quest<\/span> came along in 1999 and made me love Tim Allen all over again. <\/p>\n<p>Great performances, great sci-fi references, a wonder-filled story&#8230;you know, I can&#8217;t think of a thing I didn&#8217;t like about Galaxy Quest. Same goes for The Magnificent Seven. <\/p>\n<p>As strictly faithful adaptations of Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven is more direct while Galaxy Quest is more funny fun. Both are excellent ways to spend a couple hours. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s strange about Galaxy Quest, A Bug&#8217;s Life, and Three Amigos is the addition of the &quot;performers-turned-saviors&quot; plotline. <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/videodetective.com\/photos\/003\/000129_14.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wonder where in the history of scriptwriting that idea got added to the mix&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case may be, we have a number of Seven Samurai derivatives to enjoy, and Thank Shatner, they are good, if not great. Well, most of them. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifimoviepage.com\/images\/battle3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nShut up, John Saxon! You won&#8217;t be able to save your foxy daughter from Freddie Krueger, so don&#8217;t scowl at me about your career choices! <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Ahem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the samurai, everyone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lovehkfilm.com\/panasia\/aj6293\/seven_samurai.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&nbsp; Mood: Cool&nbsp;][&nbsp; Currently: Playing Battleship with Death&#8230;&nbsp;] I love Kurosawa. Granted, I haven&#8217;t seen the majority of Kurosawa&#8217;s films, though I own a number of them on general principal. To paraphrase Sting, as Fayd Rautha: I will view them! 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