This 1960 classic Western has the gunfight to end them all.
The Big Picture The Western genre has existed since the earliest days of cinema, and even early Westerns like The Great Train Robbery emphasized that at their heart, these were action movies. That definition has certainly expanded thanks to subversive westerns that incorporate other genres, including the social drama of Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller, the romantic tragedy of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, or Mel Brooks’ parodical examination of genre archetypes in Blazing Saddles.
If the narrative itself sounds fairly familiar, it’s because the premise is lifted from Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic Japanese masterpiece Seven Samurai, a film often cited as one of the greatest works of cinema of all time.
Other relationships made prior to the battle also hold emotional value; Chico falls in love with the local woman Petra , and even McQueen’s steel-hearted character Tanner admits that he’s become emotionally attached to the villagers and that his desire to help them isn’t just because of the monetary rewards he will earn. The group comes to rely upon the knowledge of a village elder and ultimately succeeds in convincing the civilians to take part in their own protection.
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