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[the_gneech]

From gamera_spinning: Donnie Yen to Star in Seven Samurai Remake
Y'know, remaking any Kurasawa movie is sorta like attempting to paint "Mona Lisa 2.0" -- what's the point?* Having said that, it's about bloody time Donnie Yen got a movie! So I'm ambivalent about this one.

*I don't count Magnificent Seven, Fistful of Dollars and all the rest of those "remakes" exactly. Adaptations, I'm cool with. But really ... to paraphrase Sam Jackson, Seven Samurai had Akira *#&$@ Kurasawa and Toshira #&$%^ Mifune. You just cannot top this, so why try?

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Enjoy!

-The Gneech

Comments

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

Hey, the Samurai 7 anime is pretty cool, just because everything goes better with giant mecha robots. ^_^ But yeah, thats anime, not a live-action film.

[frustratedpilot]

I love Kurosawa...but remember he remade The Scottish Play (Throne of Blood) and King Lear (Ran).

Wake me when they remake Dodes'kaden.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Well, a) those are plays, not movies ;) and b) he adapted them considerably. Ran in particular is vastly improved over King Lear IMO.

-The Gneech

[confusedoo.livejournal.com]

Looks like somebody is bored at work again. ;) Looking forward to AC, only 2 weeks away.

[genecatlow.livejournal.com]

The only one of those Onion clippings that's new is the EPA warnings about romance. And that one's obvious by now (February was promoted to "Valentine's Month" in several locations). :)

[jessecuster.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the rather unlikely adaptation of Seven Samurai in A Bug's Life.