Kurosawa wouldn't be known worldwide without Leone.
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sergiodrummond — 12 years ago(August 17, 2013 01:16 PM)
Leone remade a vastly inferior film into something more exciting
No, Yojimbo isn't vastly inferior to Fistful of Dollars.
Let's be honest, before Leone remade Yojimbo, was he known outside of Japan? No
Actually, he was. Rashomon was critically acclaimed, it won 5 awards, including th5b4e Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Not only Rashomon made Kurosawa worldwide known but it also introduced Japanese cinema in general to the west, including Ozu. Rashomon was released in 1950, who was Leone at that time? An assistant director, with no work to his name.
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maneatingbear — 12 years ago(October 23, 2013 07:42 AM)
OP, maybe you should do some research before you start talking out of you rear-end. Rashomon won an Honorary Academy Award a dozen years before Leone released A Fistfull of Dollarsafter that Kurosawa had several international smashes before Leone even became a feature length director.
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christomacin — 12 years ago(December 20, 2013 01:24 PM)
Aren't you forgetting
Seven Samurai
/
The Magnificent Seven
? If Kurosawa was so "unknown", then how did Hollywood know of the existence of Seven Samurai, and why remake it as
The Magnificent Seven
?
The Outrage- a
Rashomon
remake starring Eli Wallach and Paul Newman - followed in 1964. Odd Hollywood behavior for a filmmaker "no one had ever heard of".
The title of your post should more accurately be titled:
"Leone wouldn't be known worldwide without Kurosawa."
You could replace "Leone" with "Van Cleef" or "Eastwood" or "Morricone", and it would still hold true.
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Dare_Daniel — 11 years ago(September 24, 2014 10:34 AM)
This is imdb at its best lol.
Top 50 Favourite films
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mevmijaumau — 11 years ago(September 24, 2014 10:07 PM)
No, this is IMDb at its best:
http://www.imdb.com/board/10089881/board/nest/178746981