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The Big Picture The '60s were an age that saw Hollywood running dry on Western ideas, so they turned elsewhere for influence and found gold in samurai movies. Up until this point, the genre had dominated a large part of moviegoers' diets. Classic Westerns were being cranked out of Hollywood left and right in the '50s, with most bearing a heart of gold, and clear lines in the sand between good and evil.
Akira Kurosawa's Samurai Movies Influenced Cowboys in Westerns These movies picked up wind around the world and caught the attention of many influential filmmakers. The samurai stories that Kurosawa was telling weren't just gigantic badass epics. These were stories that weren't far off from the cowboy pictures that were so popular, and could be the template for loads of new movies to be made.
'The Magnificent Seven' Pulled Right From 'Seven Samurai' Of course, when it comes to the action scenes, Kurosawa always brought a brutality to the screen that you'd never find in a John Wayne movie. John Wayne's characters weren't always the most uplifting guys in the world, but his movies were rarely ever dour, nor this aggressive. Kurosawa, on the other hand, throws you in the dirt, dices you up with a samurai sword, and tells you to figure it out.
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