The Seven Samurai V.S. Magnificent Seven

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The 1954 movie The Seven Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa, and its 1960 remake The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges have many similarities; for example, the plot of both movies entails farmers hiring mercenaries to help fend off bandits that annually pillage their farms. The two movies also have differences like the characterization of the bandits in The Magnificent Seven as opposed to The Seven Samurai.

One of the main similarities between the Seven Samurai and Magnificent Seven is the plot. In both movies bandits annually pillage a small village and the farmers are left with barely enough food to survive. In the Magnificent Seven Calvera and his men actually stop in the town and talk to the farmers, however, in Seven Samurai the bandits ride by and are overheard by a farmer about coming back when the barley is ripe. The farmers then have a meeting and decide to hire mercenaries, in Seven Samurai the farm

Once six mercenaries are acquired they set off to the village and Chico/Kikuchiyo follows behind until the mercenaries decide to let him join. Once the mercenaries arrive, in both movies, all the farmers are hiding because they think the samurai/gunslingers are just as bad as the bandits and they hid all their women in fear that they would "seduce" them. As time progresses though the farmers begin to trust the samurai/gunslingers and are trained how to fight. Unlike in The Seven Samurai the bandits in The Magnificent Seven actually talked with the gunslingers and tried to persuade them to join their group, but to no avail, and the battle was started. The fighting in both the movies is pretty much the same with little battles occurring over a three day period until the final battle.

ers use rice and in Magnificent Seven the farmers offer $20. In both movies the farmers are turned down many times before they find the first

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