It's nice to see a Western not just bother to have a black character but a black protagonist for a change, but I can't help feeling they're calling this a remake because nobody noticed it was a blatant rip-off until it was too late to get their money back. And I'm sure I remember Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen having an Establishing Character Moment, as TV Tropes would put it, that didn't revolve around their ability to shoot people and make witty quips about it.
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
Replace "ginger" with "n*gger," and suddenly it become a lot less funny, doesn't it?
-- fgalkin
Obviously it's a little hard to say from just a trailer, but they don't appear to be taking much in the way of thematic or character cues from either the original Magnificent Seven or from the Seven Samurai. Sounds pretty much like a remake in name only.
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Me, I'm just wondering why a western is in the Fantasy forum. Does it have wizards or something in the remake?
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The Romulan Republic wrote:Me, I'm just wondering why a western is in the Fantasy forum. Does it have wizards or something in the remake?
Elheru Aran wrote:*shrugs* I'm sure he was just unsure where to put it. It happens. If a mod cares, they'll punt it.
Pretty much. Though maybe that token Native American guy who got almost no screentime and no lines in the trailer will end up going on a vision quest or doing a raindance or something equally stereotypical and badly-researched.
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
Replace "ginger" with "n*gger," and suddenly it become a lot less funny, doesn't it?
-- fgalkin
The Romulan Republic wrote:Me, I'm just wondering why a western is in the Fantasy forum. Does it have wizards or something in the remake?
Elheru Aran wrote:*shrugs* I'm sure he was just unsure where to put it. It happens. If a mod cares, they'll punt it.
Pretty much. Though maybe that token Native American guy who got almost no screentime and no lines in the trailer will end up going on a vision quest or doing a raindance or something equally stereotypical and badly-researched.
Hopefully not.
Though now that I think of it, The Magnificent Seven Sorcerers could make a pretty good movie.
"I know its easy to be defeatist here because nothing has seemingly reigned Trump in so far. But I will say this: every asshole succeeds until finally, they don't. Again, 18 months before he resigned, Nixon had a sky-high approval rating of 67%. Harvey Weinstein was winning Oscars until one day, he definitely wasn't."-John Oliver
"The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan."-General Von Clauswitz, describing my opinion of Bernie or Busters and third partiers in a nutshell.
I SUPPORT A NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE TO REMOVE TRUMP FROM OFFICE.
Or the best Dresden Files short story never written.
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
Replace "ginger" with "n*gger," and suddenly it become a lot less funny, doesn't it?
-- fgalkin
Actually, I read somewhere recently that a short Dresden Files western is in the works, starring Luccio, but I don't have a good source for that (I think it was on TV Tropes).
Not a Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven variation though.
"I know its easy to be defeatist here because nothing has seemingly reigned Trump in so far. But I will say this: every asshole succeeds until finally, they don't. Again, 18 months before he resigned, Nixon had a sky-high approval rating of 67%. Harvey Weinstein was winning Oscars until one day, he definitely wasn't."-John Oliver
"The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan."-General Von Clauswitz, describing my opinion of Bernie or Busters and third partiers in a nutshell.
I SUPPORT A NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE TO REMOVE TRUMP FROM OFFICE.
