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The Magnificent Seven
"I've been offered a lot for my work...but never everything."

Rated: Not Rated Year: 1960 Color 128 minutes
Starring: Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, James Coburn, Charles Bronson
Directed by: John Sturges
Screenplay byWilliam Roberts, Walter Bernstein, Walter Newman
Based on The Seven  by: John
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Movie Co.: United Artists

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Astounding, Powerful and Incredibly Cool: The Magnificent Seven
by Christian De Matteo

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Huge, huge, huge and nothing short of HUGE.

            I’m one of those men that still wants to be a cowboy when he grows up, even though he’s studied enough to know the mystique and glamour of the cowboy way are only on the silver screen and the reality was dirty and deadly.  Still, I am entranced by that only twenty or so year period of our history which has had as much, if not more, impact on history as all the Chinese dynasties, at least for Americans.

So, when I clicked over to a DVD e-tailer that offers very deep discounts and found that The Magnificent Seven was only days away from being released on DVD, I hit the buy button.  Fact is, I hadn’t seen the film in years, once with my Dad when I was a little kid.  I had only a quick memory of James Coburn winning a shoot-out with a knife, but something told me I had to own it.

I was not disappointed.  But how could anyone be with a cast of Yul Brenner (The King and I), Steve McQueen (Bullitt), Eli Wallach (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), James Coburn (Affliction), and Charles Bronson (Death Wish)?  And yet, the actors are just a small part of it.  Director/Producer John Sturges deserves lauds upon lauds for what he did to what could easily have been a cardboard cutout Western about gunfighters on a payroll saving a small Mexican farming town.  Think about that for a second, and run through all the bad Westerns you’ve ever seen.  Think of some hack director getting his hands on this formula.  Imagine him saying, “Tell props to get chaps, hats, jeans and guns for the men, and let’s film them shooting at each other.  Oh, and throw a girl in there somewhere.  We need them to win the battle in an hour and a half.”

You’ve seen how many Westerns that follow that formula.

Exactly.  But Sturges was inspired and had a dream, and on top of all else knew how to direct a film, not a B-Movie.  Having seen Akira Kurasawa’s epic The Seven Samurai and being blown away by it, he realized the story was so human and so Western, that the transition was natural.  Smart man that he was, he didn’t want to chance defiling the original with a piece of schlock attributed to it, so he put together a cast of incredible actors, got a screenplay without a bad line and spent extra time on his extras, making sure that even a man walking down the street for a half second had enough personality to be real and believable.  There isn’t a single inhabitant of the Mexican town that seems to be merely holding a place in the dust.  All are believable fathers, farmers, wives and daughters.  The children are even given realistic, non-sentimental parts, though the film is high on sentiment.  Note: there is a massive and important difference between sentiment and sentimentality.  Sturges knew this, and played to it, making sure the characters conveyed intense emotions, spoke realistically and deeply, and captured all the real grit of the cowboy life, with all its excitement and sadness.

And on top of all that, he gives us seven distinct and intriguing characters, with no shortage of pure cool… could there be with Brenner and McQueen?  The action sequences are incredible and exciting.  The kind that can bring a smile to your face, a laugh from your throat and then make you choke up at the realism of the brutality of battle.  A perfect balance.

By the end of the film you have no choice but to have feeling for each of the Seven as well as for a number of the townspeople, so much so that you can even understand the ones you disagree with.  This is the sign of an incredible film.

And The Magnificent Seven is just that, an incredible film.  Some have called it “One of the best of the genre.”  I go beyond that.  The Magnificent Seven is one of the best of all films and a standard against which to hold all others.

(Side Note: Watch carefully, all you !Three Amigos! fans, because a great deal of their spoofing material came from here… including the fact that Elmer Bernstein did the score for both!)

 

  
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