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Thursday, 22. September 2016
Of “game me the song of death” to “Twelve noon” – the Western Genre has some of the immortal classics. Also “The magnificent Seven” is one of them. Nevertheless, there is now a Remake – under changed signs.
swaggering, It is too late, of a Western Revival. Because it’s with films like “True Grit,” “The Homesman”, or the two Quentin Tarantino film “Django Unchained” and “The Hateful Eight” now for a few years. But who knows? Perhaps we are now in a completely new Era of Cowboy-and-Indian stories. It is telling that now, with “The magnificent Seven” a Remake of an absolute Western classic. The Remake like label not fit exactly even. Instead, the Film follows directed by Antoine Fuqua with the current Hollywood Trend to tear down the walls Original to the ground, to build it again from scratch.
“What Original?”, you might ask – after all, already the gunslingers-a classic of 1960, with the six years before that in Japan caused strip “The seven Samurai” had a strong source of inspiration. But the question is unnecessary. Fuquas Film has in common neither with the previous nor with the predecessor of the predecessor a lot. As the Western starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, or Charles Bronson, the Director uses only the basic idea of the Samurai-strip: Seven to free more or less fearless daredevil back to a village of a few evil villains. And as for the Film, with Brynner & Co the action from the 16. Century Japan just short-hand into the 19th century. Century in North America moved.
“Like an Aha-experience”
That was it, but also largely with the similarities. Although he has cast the story in a Western, he is actually more like “The seven Samurai,” says Fuqua, in an interview with n-tv.de. “That was the first foreign Film that I as a child seen. He has me blown away. It was like an Aha-experience.” Perhaps it is also because the 50-Year-old in the US city of Pittsburgh grew up in a tough environment with drug dealers and Gangs. “Also, these guys simply take what they want,” says Fuqua. “This is basically the Same. I would have found it great to have seven types, which make them hell.”
had But also the “magnificent Seven” Director John Sturges in 1960, horseback riding through the desert, always have a place in Fuquas the heart. “Because of my grandmother – I sat with her there, and the Film looked, when I was twelve,” explains the filmmaker. Nevertheless, he wanted to remove from this template, as far as possible. “Why would I want to do the Same? That would have been ridiculous,” rants Fuqua in the Interview. “The other Film we already have. And he is great. But we live in a different time and I would like to see a different Version of the story.”
“The message is very clear,”
So Fuquas not to wear “glorious Seven”, only completely different name as the title hero in the Western forerunner of the early ‘ 60s, they originate from the most diverse ethnic groups. First of all, of course, is for the Denzel Washington embodied the leader of the troupe by the name of Sam Chisolm, but with Billy Rocks (Byung-hun Lee) and Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier) also an Asian and an Indian to the warhorse. Be added to the “magnificent Seven” by Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), Jack Horne (Vincent D’onofrio) and Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo). The villain Bartholomew Bogue Peter Sarsgaard plays, while Haley Bennett as a village resident, Emma Cullen provides the pinch of femininity in the Film.
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His Cast is much closer to the historical reality than the one day of Brynner led the Ensemble of pale faces, Fuqua secure. Because in North America in the 19th century. Century, not crowded and only figures with the European-white roots. But in addition, the new edition of the “magnificent Seven”, of course, so miles from any reality, as it is an entertainment film has to be about the “Wild West”. The stripes scores, not least with a sense of Humor.
What remains is the question of how good or bad a story as that of the “magnificent Seven” fits into the current time. Fuqua is the first to admit: “The Story is really simple. The message is very clear.” Yes, it is in fact archaic and martial simple. And a Donald Trump to the black-and-white portrayal of the fight of Good against Evil, its fun probably would have. Which is not to say that all the others in the Film could have a good time. Western Fans come in the appearance of Denzel Washington’s gunslingers gang anyway.
“The magnificent Seven” running in the German cinemas.
source: n-tv.de
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