Sunday, May 19, 2013

The Magnificent Seven: A classic must watch movie

 The Magnificent seven 

A village where people toil their sweat in the fields to get one meal a day to feed their beloved ones.

And the village being raided by bandits periodically, looting their hard earned food.

And one fine day, realization dawns them to fight the evil.

This is the backdrop of the classic movie “The magnificent Seven”. Inspired by a Japanese movie called The Seven Samurai, the movie makes us feel why we donot have such movies any more. A simple innocent story interwoven with an ensemble cast, yet proves to be one of the best action movies of the olden times. The movie was one of the starting phases of the “Sphagetti western genre” movies. We can find lot of cow boys, gun slings, good vs evil battles and so on.

As I mentioned the story is quite simple. A mexican village is constantly being troubled by a a group of bandits. They raid, loot grains and kill people who come their way. The rural police are of very less help. When the situation becomes unbearable, group of villagers decide to fight back. They approach an elderly man of the village, who advises them to go to the “border” and get weapons to fight the baddies back.

Once at the border, they happen to find a young man from the city called Chris, who happen to be a gunslinger. Observing his skills, they approach him for help. Though he denies initially, he decides to help the poor villagers. He begins a quest of finding six best men and forms a group : The magnificent seven. The rest of the movie is how the magnificent seven defend the village, finally defeating the bandits.

Finally the movie meets the moral : Unity is strength.

The music score of the movie is one of the best I ever heard and breaths life to the story.

 

The magnificent seven 1

Main cast

Yul Brynner as  Chris Adams

Eli Wallach as  Calvera

Steve McQueen as  Vin Tanner

Charles Bronson as  Bernardo O'Reilly

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