The most influential movie of all time
I got my hands on the 70th anniversary Blu-Ray, (I would’ve gotten the 4K Blu-ray, but sadly I don’t have a 4K player yet) and I have to say, this was an incredible experience rewatching my favourite movie of all time.
The story is incredibly straightforward but yet gripping and compelling, The first part of the film puts into question about how easy it would be to actually get Samurai to defend a poor peasants village.
The characters are incredible in the film, it’s impossible for me to decide who my favourite character in this film is, wether that be Kambei, Kekuchiyo, or Kyuzo. All Seven of the Samurai are incredibly essential to the film and would make movie a lot less if one of them were to be removed. One of my favourite details I noticed when rewatching this film is that the Non-Samurai characters have very exaggerated expressions, (Kurosawa likes to do this in his films for the audience to easily understand how a character feels) But the Samurai contrast this by being very stoic and barley showing any emotion all the time. Whereas Kekuchiyo, who is a poser of a Samurai still has these expressions, as he is not a true samurai, and doesn’t understand what it means to be one.
The romantic subplot in this movie is also very gripping, Kurosawa managed to put in a great and compelling romantic subplot into this movie.
The pacing is incredible in this film, despite it being over 200 minutes long, not a single second of this film feels wasted, and the film feels like it’s 100 minutes instead of 200. The film has a ton of build up, the first hour of the film is just to set up and gather the Seven Samurai, then the second hour is the Samurai getting used to the village, where it then finally gets to the battle, despite how long it takes, it never felt like there was any time wasted or that it was boring. The action scenes are also incredibly gripping and put you on the edge of your seat, and are used very well, with the best scenes being put at the very end.
If you are into movies, hell, even if you barley care for movies, PLEASE WATCH THIS MOVIE BEFORE YOU DIE. It may seem overwhelming, because it’s over 200 minutes long, in a language you probably don’t speak, and in black and white, but it is 100% worth it, it’s influence is in almost every action/adventure movie or anime today.
The story is incredibly straightforward but yet gripping and compelling, The first part of the film puts into question about how easy it would be to actually get Samurai to defend a poor peasants village.
The characters are incredible in the film, it’s impossible for me to decide who my favourite character in this film is, wether that be Kambei, Kekuchiyo, or Kyuzo. All Seven of the Samurai are incredibly essential to the film and would make movie a lot less if one of them were to be removed. One of my favourite details I noticed when rewatching this film is that the Non-Samurai characters have very exaggerated expressions, (Kurosawa likes to do this in his films for the audience to easily understand how a character feels) But the Samurai contrast this by being very stoic and barley showing any emotion all the time. Whereas Kekuchiyo, who is a poser of a Samurai still has these expressions, as he is not a true samurai, and doesn’t understand what it means to be one.
The romantic subplot in this movie is also very gripping, Kurosawa managed to put in a great and compelling romantic subplot into this movie.
The pacing is incredible in this film, despite it being over 200 minutes long, not a single second of this film feels wasted, and the film feels like it’s 100 minutes instead of 200. The film has a ton of build up, the first hour of the film is just to set up and gather the Seven Samurai, then the second hour is the Samurai getting used to the village, where it then finally gets to the battle, despite how long it takes, it never felt like there was any time wasted or that it was boring. The action scenes are also incredibly gripping and put you on the edge of your seat, and are used very well, with the best scenes being put at the very end.
If you are into movies, hell, even if you barley care for movies, PLEASE WATCH THIS MOVIE BEFORE YOU DIE. It may seem overwhelming, because it’s over 200 minutes long, in a language you probably don’t speak, and in black and white, but it is 100% worth it, it’s influence is in almost every action/adventure movie or anime today.
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