Magnificent Seven and The Seven Samurai


	These two movies where greatly different, both movies were good but of the 
two i liked the Seven Samurai best. These 2 movies were very different in length 
too, the Seven Samurai was two tapes long and full of details and long establishing 
shots, The Magnificent Seven was only one tape and many things were cut out of it 
that weren't in the original it was still good but it wasn't as good as the Seven 
Samurai.

	Some of the visual difference and similarities were, they people in 
Magnificent Seven used guns, and the people in Seven Samurai used swords, they 
gathered a gun or two and all the towns people used poles carved with a sharp tip 
in the front. For every character in Seven Samurai there was a character alike or 
similar character in Magnificent Seven such as the drunk guy and the guy that was 
good with the sword. The little Mexicans in Magnificent Seven actually had money 
to give to the gunmen where as the towns people in Seven Samurai only had rice to 
feed the samurai. Also in the finally battle against the bandits, it rained in 
Seven Samurai but in Magnificent Seven it was just a normal sunny day. 

	I think that Akira Kurawsawa put a lot more time into his film trying to 
get it exactly the way he wanted it to he put more visual emotion, like the scene 
with the fire, or the flag, he used a lot of kinetic motion to set the emotion or 
give some sort of feeling to the viewer. He used many types of camera shots or 
establishing shots too, to give the viewer a better knowing of where you are and 
what all is going on, and also used a lot of long periods of silence, its not as 
noticeably in Seven Samurai as it was in Rashomon. He also added more to the find 
scenes they were a lot longer and in my opinion better. He also added more to the 
story about the girl-guy he made her more of an important character, than the girl 
that was in Magnificent Seven. 

	Then on the re-make it was very close to the original but a whole lot 
shorter, they kind of made a summary of it and got to the point quicker the Akira, 
but it was still a good movie. This guy didn't really use any of the techniques 
that Akira did just did his own thing. I don't think they had any techniques that 
really stood out in the Magnificent Seven everything just kind of seemed the same 
as all the others. He did fallow the original story line well, in most movie 
re-makes the director goes way off and the movie just turns out a big flop.

	The reason i like the Seven Samurai better was because the Japanese films 
are always done well, especially fight scenes even though this was an older film 
before all the new technology he found away around it so it would look good and 
done too incredibly fake, because i noticed when the had fight scenes they would 
zoom out so they didn't have to get all technical with blood and things like that. 
So overall both movies were good and turned out to be successful.