5/22/2023 0 Comments Star wars by george lucas![]() ![]() Yojimbo (1961) became Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964). The Seven Samurai (1954) became John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven (1960). Some international directors didn’t just learn from Kurosawa’s deep-focus vistas and propulsive editing, they remade his films wholesale. ![]() “Let me say it simply,” summed up Scorsese in 2009. Here was a writer-director from an intriguing foreign culture, but because he was so influenced by John Ford and other American directors, his films were accessible to Western audiences. The New Hollywood wunderkinds – Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg – were entranced by his artistic, philosophical, yet dynamic work. Kurosawa was already a big name in Japanese cinema when he caught the world’s attention with Rashomon, an intricate crime drama which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951. ![]()
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