So what would be the problem with doing this final shot on-location. PG-13 (Sequences of Western Violence|Historical Smoking|Some Language|Suggestive Material), Genre: Gadi in 1966 (quoted from Cardullo ). The Mick Jones 1980s band Big Audio Dynamite covered the song as "Keep off the Grass" (although this cover was not officially released). Escape Artists, The film's score is by Elmer Bernstein. [45], The Magnificent Seven grossed $93.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $68.9 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $162.4 million, against a net production budget of $90 million. The theme was played as the E Street Band entered the stage, adding to the dramatic atmosphere in the stadium. The Magnificent Seven: Growing up after their golden 1996 Olympics. You're frettin', you're sweatin'. Here's our comparison of both 1960 and 2016 versions of The Magnificent Seven to see which one comes out on top. 2 hr 8 mins. Pin High, Matthew's widow Emma and her friend Teddy leave in search of bounty hunters to help liberate the town. Bogue is like Donald Trump, except Bogue's not as evil. The Original is still the far superior film. Again, they're just there to give these men something to fight for. (Varse Sarabande issued this album in 1996, and reissued it in 2004.). The genre has had several recent box office flops, such as Cowboys & Aliens (2011) and The Lone Ranger (2013), but has also found success in films like True Grit (2010) and Django Unchained (2012). At least who survives the film is partially surprising. 00. The men then take up residence in a small town, making their skills . The Magnificent Seven didn't just reinvent the western for the 20th century -- by putting genre actors like Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson together on screen, it basically invented a high-powered action ensemble formula we still see today. Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits. Magnificent Seven (2016) / The Magnificent Seven (1960) [DVD-2 Pack] No reviews. At first agreeing only to help them recruit men, Chris eventually decides to lead the group. The whole thing, starting from the Bogue's men arrive in the outskirts of the town until Bogue's death, it goes close to 30 minutes and it's never once boring. Despite the meager pay offered, he finds five willing gunmen. X-Ray PG. Strings Group, French Horn, Guitar (2) and 2 more. The Magnificent Seven, American western film, released in 1960, thatalthough not as acclaimed as Kurosawa Akira's Seven Samurai (1954), on which it was basedproved to be a popular and influential entry in the genre. Sony rounded out the campaign with a presence in live sporting events, such as National Football League, NCAA Football and local Major League Baseball games, as well as highly anticipated fall premieres and original programming, like Empire, The Voice, American Horror Story, Fear the Walking Dead and Designated Survivor. [8], Since his grandmother was the prime influence on the film, every day after filming, Fuqua would ask himself if she would have had fun watching it. None were as successful as the original film. [11], Brynner approached producer Walter Mirisch with the idea of remaking Kurosawa's famous samurai film. The direction was just okay, nothing in the cinematography quite stands out. Other uses include in the 2004 documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11; in the 2005 film The Ringer; in the 2015 film Hardcore Henry; as entrance music for the British band James, as well as episodes of The Simpsons that had a "Western" theme (mainly in the episode titled "Dude, Where's My Ranch?"). [46], It opened in first place in Russia ($1.8 million), Spain ($1.1 million), and Malaysia ($560,000), and second in the United Kingdom and Ireland ($2.6 million), Germany ($1.4 million), and Brazil ($1.1 million),[46] and had similar openings in Australia ($2.8 million) and France ($1.9 million). [32] In South Korea, it sold 80,870 tickets in Seoul City,[33] and it was also successful in Japan. This 10-digit number is your confirmation number. I was thinking of watching The Chernobyl Diaries tonight, for one reason or another, I guess we'll see which movie I watch when I get to tomorrow's review. Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. On the other side of that, however, is the fact that there's actually very little character development done within the seven mercenaries hired by this town to get rid of this industrialist, Bartholomew Bogue (a great, villainous name), who's trying to force them out of their land with the help of his Blackstone agents, who kill several of the homesteaders to prove their point. Regal The stand out is the humor and different characters playing off each other, this makes it a good move to watch. Village Roadshow Pictures, "[69], In April 2023 after previously acquiring MGM, Amazon announced plans to expand the franchise with a television series adaptation in development through the company's Amazon Studios. The film opened on October 12, 1960, in a thousand theaters across the South and Southwest of the United States. The theme from. Calvera spares the seven's lives, believing they have learned the simple farmers are not worth fighting for and fearing reprisals from the gunfighters' "friends" across the border. Dane Rhodes as Sheriff Harp, Rose Creek's sheriff who defected to Bogue. At the Atlanta Olympics seven girls united a nation with an unlikely triumph. Though, to be fair, if the movie didn't really do much with its protagonists, I don't think anyone could have reasonably expected them to do much with the people of Rose Creek. Regardless, if I had seen Seven Samurai I'd be, roughly, familiar with this and the original, so that's my bad and something that, if not tonight, I hope to rectify by the end of the year. I guess in terms of which arc I liked the best, it'd have to be Robicheaux's since it leads to the predictable moment of him coming to the rescue, predictably, at the last minute after originally having left before the battle began. The five other gunmen are the gunfighter Vin Tanner, who has gone broke after a round of gambling and resists local efforts to recruit him as a store clerk; Chris's friend Harry Luck, who assumes Chris is hiding a much bigger reward for the work; the Irish Mexican Bernardo O'Reilly, who has fallen on hard times; Britt, an expert in both knife and gun who joins purely for the challenge involved; and the dapper, on-the-run gunman Lee, plagued by nightmares of fallen enemies and haunted that he has lost his nerve for battle. $93.4M, Runtime: We'll always lose. Hit the town, he drinks his wages. Then Chico unstraps his belt. The characters are interesting enough, the shootouts cool, the story is no straight remake but uses only the basic premise of the original. And, honestly, there's genre out there that's more about the battles between good and evil than a good western. Box Office", "With 'The Magnificent Seven' and 'High Noon' remakes, will the western ride again? Brass Duet. The Magnificent Seven Fed up with being brutalized and impoverished because of outlaw raids on their village by a merciless outlaw leader - played by Eli Wallach ( The Holiday, The Hunter, The Misfits, Genghis Khan, etc), the besieged citizens of a small Mexican town hire seven American gunslingers to stave off the marauders once and for all. Lee finds the nerve to burst into a house where several villagers are being held, shooting their captors and releasing the prisoners to join the fight but is gunned down as he leaves the house. For me, I always had my grandmother in my mind when making a film. Three of Calvera's men are dispatched to reconnoitre the village; due to a mistake by Chico, the seven are forced to kill all three rather than capture at least one. Advertisement. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Magnificent Seven never really lives up to the superlative in its title or the classics from which it draws inspiration but remains a moderately diverting action thriller on its own merits. That's neither here nor there, of course. During their journey they add an additional member, a Comanche warrior named Red Harvest. [30][29] He stayed off social media and studied intently in order to portray his part. For the film initially released as "The Magnificent Seven" in the US, see. 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. X-Ray HDR UHD PG-13. The seven and the villagers kill another eleven of their cohorts in a shootout and run them out of town. THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN: John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. What led him to where he is at the start of the movie. Cinemark It's no good for man to work in cages. Image Via United Artists. Cinemark To compensate, McQueen took numerous opportunities to upstage Brynner and draw attention to himself, including shielding his eyes with his hat, flipping a coin during one of Brynner's speeches, and rattling his shotgun shells. He later signed a deal with Yul Brynner's production company, who bought the rights from Morheim for $10,000 up front plus $1,000 a week as a producer and 5% of the net profits. Their first recruit is Sam Chisholm, a famous U.S. And this movie, honestly, might be one of them. [35][36][37] Other locations include St. Francisville; Zachary, Louisiana; Jackson, Louisiana: Ridgway, Colorado; and New Mexico. This is a story of people who are . 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