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AJL67

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May 26, 2022
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It’s funny to think that the two bumbling guys inspired C-3PO and R2-D2—along with other elements of the film.
Although the greedy two were more frustrating!

Almost finished the night with Seven Samurai, but i already read 3 movies and was baked, speaking of movies that got ripped off for American movies 😂 It remember in a Clint Eastwood documentary where when he read Fist Full of Dollars he only did it because it was yojimbo and that was one of his fav movies.
 
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Although the greedy two were more frustrating!

Almost finished the night with Seven Samurai, but i already read 3 movies and was baked, speaking of movies that got ripped off for American movies 😂 It remember in a Clint Eastwood documentary where when he read Fist Full of Dollars he only did it because it was yojimbo and that was one of his fav movies.

A funny tidbit that made me laugh years ago:

The end credits of Last Man Standing starring Bruce Willis mentions being inspired by a story by Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa clearly
used Dashiell Hammett’s novel, Red Harvest as source material for Yojimbo. The fedora wearing gun for hire at a border town is far closer to the Hammett book than the sword swinging bodyguard for hire at the border town in Japan (or cigar smoking cowboy), yet Hammett wasn’t listed. It made me chuckle in the theatre.