The Magnificent Seven 4K 1960 Ultra HD 2160p

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In a small village, peasants have suffered for years from the outrages of local bandits. Their leader, Culver, terrorizes the whole neighborhood, tormenting the villagers with constant extortions and punishments. One day, the villagers decide to hire their own defenders - seven armed horsemen. The magnificent seven quickly restore order, but Culvera still manages to escape. And then the capture of the villain and his associates becomes a matter of honor for the Magnificent Seven.

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Seven is the number of luck. In the world of cinema, too, there are omens. For example, it's not customary to give a film a title in the form of a question, otherwise it will fail at the box office. Director Akira Kurosawa must have been a superstitious man. Perhaps he believed that a lucky number would bring luck to his film. Anyway, his film Seven Samurai became a classic of world cinema, and the director himself became a great reformer of Japanese cinema.

The pathos of the picture was so impressive that six years later a remake is made. Change of characters and scenery - but not changed the main point, the red line through the entire movie.

The plot is as follows: A small Mexican village has been tormented for years by a gang headed by a colorful criminal Calvera. The villagers, suffering from their outrages, decide to take a desperate step - they hire a suspicious guy named Chris, who promises them to get rid of Calvera's gangsters from their hard-earned property. Chris, though bald as a stump, realizes that he can't do it alone, and he throws a cry across the Frontier. One by one, the five veteran Ganfighters, for a modest sum, keep the peasants company. One lad, who has not passed the proficiency test that Chris has arranged for him, follows the riders on their heels. As a result, they take him in. 'There's seven of us now,' says Yul Brynner's character with a shaved head. Under the careful guidance of experienced riflemen, the peasants take a young fighter's course. Soon Culvera comes to the village, where the impudent peasants and seven riflemen turn him away. After which, using the skills they have acquired, they brutally destroy the flying squad. Calvera himself escapes into the mountains to the remnants of his gang. It is now a matter of honor for the Seven to take out the ringleader.

What can I say? The Western genre has deflated after the great 'High Noon' of 1952. The people could no longer dutifully look at the hackneyed clichés: the lonely sheriff, the friend of children and pregnant women, the dastardly enemies, the evil Indians, the happy end... Zimmerman's innovation in 'Exactly at Noon' was that these clichés were partially broken. That's not to say that in 'Seven' they are not there. But! It seems that for the first time, the peculiar individualism of the American people is trampled in this genre: the heroes are seven! And each has his own character, thoughts and feelings.

The film is partially devoid of the tragedy present in the Japanese original, and is more dynamic, in accordance with the laws of the genre. But what Kurosawa said six years earlier through the mouth of one of his characters is heard in this film. It's the phrase that Chris utters: 'The old man is right. Only farmers always win. And we lose... We always lose.

The essence of the phrase is that the working man is the salt of the earth.

For many actors the roles were landmarks (in fact, only Yul Brynner was famous at the time): the future stars of westerns coped superbly with the roles - Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, James Coburn - more than once they will look at us from the screens. And all of them in turn will be filmed in his truly reformist westerns by the great Sergio Leone. But that's another story...

And we'll only say to the horsemen as they ride off into the sunset, 'Adios! It was very interesting.