This Modern Western Is One Of The Best Remakes Ever
When asked to find a good remake, most would turn to the occasional cross-cultural remakes or classics that no one remembers the original version of. This 2016 emissary of a wounded genre takes a new spin on a story that had already been retold and manages to pull it off with style.
As most people know, a couple of the best westerns of the genre's golden era were adaptations of samurai films that translate the essential story into a cowboy aesthetic. Perhaps the most famous of those was John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven, a reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa's brilliant Seven Samurai. 56 years later, the story hit the big screen yet again, with the creative vision of a fan to steer it in the right direction.
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2016's The Magnificent Seven was helmed by acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua. Fuqua is a long-time fan of the western genre, and of Kurosawa's filmography, who approached the project with a level of reverence. The director would have been best known at the time for Training Day, Shooter, or Olympus has Fallen, and many of the film's cast joined the project to work with him. The early work on the film began around 2012, with a radically different cast than the one that made it to the screen. Fuqua was careful to incorporate a diverse cast, citing the fact that an all-white group of cowboys would fly afoul of any sense of historical accuracy. Fuqua's directorial eye is one of the most important elements of the film, the fact that he understands what makes the previous films good is on display in every frame.
The plot of The Magnificent Seven is largely unchanged from the film that inspired it, or indeed, the film that inspired that one. In
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