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Topic	The SephG Top 250 [movies] - Topic II: the top 75
Nelson_Mandela 07/09/19 10:51:23 AM #181:	#13. Seven Samurai https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Seven_Samurai_movie_poster.jpg Dir: Akira Kurosawa Genre: Adventure, Drama Year: 1954 *SephG Superlative: The greatest adventure movie ever made; the greatest Japanese movie ever made; the greatest movie of the 1950s* Seven Samurai puts all other ensemble action/adventure movies to shame. You could point to something like Ocean's 11, The Fast and the Furious franchise, Star Wars, et al. as examples of how the cast's great chemistry can elevate any story. But none of those casts come close to matching the ronin hired to defend the mountain village in Seven Samurai. It's not just the ensemble template that makes Seven Samurai so entertaining. Kurosawa is obviously one of the greatest directors ever, so the bucolic Japanese setting is just damn pretty too look at and gives me personal satisfaction as someone with an unexplained love of that medieval samurai setting. The action also holds up insanely well given the age of the film, which just feels more intense than 90% of modern war/fighting movies. Finally, I think what really brings Seven Samurai to the top of the heap of these kinds of films is the heavy themes involved with it. This is ultimately a movie about war and killing. Yet the takeaway by the end is the Pyrrhic nature of combat. This isn't the happy celebration at the end of Star Wars, but it's also not a solemn reflection on the brutality of war. Like real life, the emotions are very mixed--and if anything, Seven Samurai best captures that sense of regret that this is the way humanity has to be. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso <cite>Nelson_Mandela posted [p:924448217] in The SephG ... [t:77811548]...</cite> <quote>#13. Seven Samurai https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Seven_Samurai_movie_poster.jpg Dir: Akira Kurosawa Genre: Adventure, Drama Year: 1954 SephG Superlative: The greatest adventure movie ever made; the greatest Japanese movie ever made; the greatest movie of the 1950s Seven Samurai puts all other ensemble action/adventure movies to shame. You could point to something like Ocean's 11, The Fast and the Furious franchise, Star Wars, et al. as examples of how the cast's great chemistry can elevate any story. But none of those casts come close to matching the ronin hired to defend the mountain village in Seven Samurai. It's not just the ensemble template that makes Seven Samurai so entertaining. Kurosawa is obviously one of the greatest directors ever, so the bucolic Japanese setting is just damn pretty too look at and gives me personal satisfaction as someone with an unexplained love of that medieval samurai setting. The action also holds up insanely well given the age of the film, which just feels more intense than 90% of modern war/fighting movies. Finally, I think what really brings Seven Samurai to the top of the heap of these kinds of films is the heavy themes involved with it. This is ultimately a movie about war and killing. Yet the takeaway by the end is the Pyrrhic nature of combat. This isn't the happy celebration at the end of Star Wars, but it's also not a solemn reflection on the brutality of war. Like real life, the emotions are very mixed--and if anything, Seven Samurai best captures that sense of regret that this is the way humanity has to be. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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