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Makes sense, especially for Fistful of Dollars, Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Fistful was the Western version (as in shot for shot remake) of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, a samurai movie. Anime also got it from samurai flicks and Kurosawa was the guy for that. He made more money from the Fistful of Dollars settlement than he did from Yojimbo, though.
For even more (out possibly much less because it's not great) fun, there's a movie called The Warrior and the Sorceress that's also a remake of the same film, except it's fantasy and has a topless sorceress running around. It's got David Carradine playing a character named Kain. It came out during the sword and sorcery boom of the 80s (Conan, Sword and the Sorcerer, Deathstalker, Beastmaster, and a bunch of others). Speaking of other Sword and Sorcery flicks, at last one of the scenes is recycled from Deathstalker.
I'll ask since you seem to know about westerns. I'm trying to figure out the best John Wayne movies to watch and there seems to be a mixed consensus on which ones are good hooks for his many movies. Do you have any recommendations? I have no experience at all with his movies and only want to watch them because my dad is a huge fan. Unfortunately my dad just passed so I can no longer ask him which ones I should watch but I want to get an appreciation for the things my dad cared about.
Depends on what you're looking for, honestly. I'm partial to The Cowboys, Sons of Katie Elder, and El Dorado. My brother is a big Rio Bravo, Big Jake, True Grit, and Donovan's Reef fan (the last is not a Western but when I texted him he insisted that I include it, I completely disagree). True Grit is probably the "best" one, and The Searchers gets recommended a lot.
I read your first sentence and panicked. I know about those movies in particular because of the Kurosawa ordeal (and really liked all three). I watched John Wayne as a kid and young man with my grandfather. Other than that maybe Bone Tomahawk, Tombstone, and The Quick and the Dead are the only ones I've seen. Oh! And Seven Samurai (also Kurosawa),The Magnificent Seven, and parts of Star Wars.
Aren't El Dorado and Rio Bravo the same story with different actors?
I'd give Donovan's Reef a mention, though it definitely isn't a western. I'd put it in the WWII genre.
True Grit and Big Jake are great character studies, trying to understand why he (and other characters) behave the way they do, why the relationships between characters are what they are.
Yep! I like Robert Mitchum. I also like the fact that John Wayne was older and less invincible. They also did Rio Lobo but my brother and I agree that was the worst one.
I always forget which two are the same story, and agree it's better with Robert Mitchum - he just plays that part so well.