FILM STUDENT WATCHES *SEVEN SAMURAI* FOR THE FIRST TIME! (Movie Reaction)

FILM STUDENT WATCHES SEVEN SAMURAI FOR THE FIRST TIME! (Movie Reaction)

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My name is Elie Moses and I am a 24 Year Old law and film student here in Sydney Australia! I decided to watch the Akira Kurosawa's critically acclaimed and top 250 IMDB film Seven Samurai (1954) for the very first time! I now know why this is considered one of the greatest films of all time!!!
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@chrisb9891 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for reacting to this Elie! Isao Kimura was an amazing actor. Zen and Sword (1961) & Miyamoto Musashi V: Duel at Ganryu Island (1965) are a couple of stand-outs. Glad u enjoyed the movie!

@eliemoses 6 ай бұрын

BROO THANK YOUUU CHRIS

@jachyra9 6 ай бұрын

Still the greatest film ever made.

@cleekmaker00 6 ай бұрын

03:32 -03:35 The Samurai crossing left to right on the screen is the movie debut of Tatsuya Nakadai, who became one of Japan's most famous actors, and a frequent actor in other Akira Kurosawa films such as Yojimbo, and the lead roles in both Kagamusha and Ran. And regarding Toshiro Mixing (Kikuchiyo)... Kurosawa paid him the ultimate accolade when he said "When most Actors need 30 feet of Film to Emote, it takes Mifune only ten Feet of Film."

@robmartino1461 6 ай бұрын

Kurosawa is my all time favorite director so this was an early birthday-treat for me, thanks Elie! Kurosawa is who arguably ruined a lot of mainstream modern cinema for me. The way he composes his shots, almost always with distinct elements in the fore, middle and background gives almost every single frame a painting like quality. He also makes sure that there is some element of movement somewhere, so even when the characters are static there is often some sort of weather effect (wind, rain, dust) going on. It just makes a lot of cgi-focused action cinema seem so dull and pedestrian in it's film making by comparison. The actor who plays Kikuchiyo, Toshiro Mifune, was a regular collaborator of Kuroswas, their work is very much worth checking out. For some examples (though they are all pretty damn good): Yojimbo was the film Morricone based "A fist full of Dollars" on, "Drunken Angel" is a very atmospheric Noire-like film and "Stray Dog" is arguably the precursor of modern "buddy cop" films. You wondered at some point how Kurosawa might look like in color: For that I recommend one of his last films - "Ran" from 1985. A hauntingly dark film, loosely based on Shakespeares King Lear, but with the most vibrant and amazing use of color I have ever seen. In any case, keep up the good work and take care!

@eliemoses 6 ай бұрын

Bruhhh wtf thank you soo much you didnt need too!! Happy Birthday and God Bless. Hope you enjoyed the vid 🤝❤️

@kirasutton1973 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful imagery in this movie. Frustrating that modern filmmaking doesn't take full advantage of everything they have access to nowadays or feel it's worth the effort. It's far easier today for certain movie companies to slop some special effects together and hope audiences will simply be overloaded stimulus-wise. Well crafted classic television and movies have incredible depth as they had fewer tools to use, so they put "everything" into nuanced camera angles and any little tricks they could muster. The ending to this film is fantastic and that ending line. The bandits are all defeated, leaving the three remaining samurai to watch the villagers set to sowing their crops, singing happily the entire time, one of them notes that; “In the end, we’ve lost this battle too. The victory belongs to those peasants. Not to us.” Wonderful review Elie. Think you'd enjoy 'Imitation of Life', it seems like a formulaic movie for it's time but it has so much more depth to it.

@Uncle_T Ай бұрын

I think a lot of people fail to recognize what a huge sacrifice Shimada Kambei makes in the beginning of the movie by shaving off his samurai knot; an extremely value-laden and important symbol of status and a source of pride for every samurai. Anyone seeing him do that to save a child, a peasant child no less(!), would understand what kind of man he is and what level of morals he holds himself to. A brilliant introduction. If you want to see more about the supreme importance of the top knot do watch the movie Seppuku (in Japan)/Harakiri (in the west). It's well worth a watch.

@prn8330 6 ай бұрын

That comment you made about watching this movie being therapeutic...I feel exactly the same way

@joseortega7815 6 ай бұрын

Seven Samurai!!!!!!!

@carlnilssonyoung8961 3 ай бұрын

Almost all movies have assemble a team, are inspired by this classic

@Dej24601 2 ай бұрын

This was remade in the US under the title The Magnificent Seven. Lucas drew on Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress for the original Star Wars, and Kurosawa’s Yojimbo was remade by Sergio Leone in A Fistful of Dollars.

@davidmichaelson1092 3 ай бұрын

A real masterpiece. Near perfection. Star Wars was based on Kurusawa....but Hidden Fortress. Magnificent Seven was based on Seven Samurai.

@elaineandjohn9599 6 ай бұрын

Looking forward to more great movie reacts!

@jcr9520 6 ай бұрын

Speaking of Kurosawa in color, There is a scene in Kagemusha which is a masterclass in color grading and scene composition. There is a ridge line along the back with the foreground sloping front to back and slightly up into the ridge. Along the top of the ridge are Takeda troops marching from right to left and in the foreground are a small group of troops resting and lamenting the fact that they are retreating. Directly behind them are another line of troops marching parallel to the ones on the ridge line but turning into the camera as they reach the left edge of the shot. Now here is where Kurosawa’s magic happens. The setting sun is burning hot orange just behind the ridge, casting the background in a sharp orange tone, while all this activity has kicked up so much dust that the whole scene is washed out in a sort of tan filter settling like curtains between the different groups of troops, while the troops themselves are a muted purple with very little detail because of the dusk sky and the dust. The orange of the sun is casting shadows of the troops on the ridge forward onto the curtains of dust, which is just a breathtaking visual. The whole thing is shot with a telephoto lens, which flattens out the shot and allows every piece of the scene to live more or less in the same plane. Coupled with an excellent score, it is an amazing scene and I will watch that entire movie anytime just to see that scene. It’s why we’re still talking about Akira Kurosawa today.

@kh884488 5 ай бұрын

Film reaction to Seven Samurai? That's an instant sub in my book. Kurosawa is well known for Samurai films, but I would strongly recommend "High and Low" - a crime/suspense film. The way he uses blocking of the characters in the first half to support the story is masterful in itself.

@Dej24601 2 ай бұрын

No, not all older films are “overacted” - there are many many many films you still need to see which feature subtle, understated, simple performances. For Japanese classics, there are no more restrained yet powerfully affecting performances than in the films of Ozu, and some of Mizoguchi. Directors may want certain styles of performances because it reveals character or sets a mood or fits a story. In the US, many films of the 1930’s and 40’s used very subdued performances, not only because of the Hays Code, but because the style was to focus on witty dialogue, facial expressions or reserved body language, or to increase the ambiguity of the story or the interior development of a character. Japanese cinema draws on its cultural heritage of Noh plays, Kabuki and Bunraku puppet theater, all which can incorporate very, very exaggerated movements and costumes and storylines. So, what someone from a different heritage may consider “over the top” could be completely understood and expected by someone from another artistic background.

@blue9blossom 5 ай бұрын

Thank you, masterpiece

@andrewcrowder4958 5 ай бұрын

Mr. Moses Thanks for watching. Yes, the farmers were struggling. They were taxed at about 80%. This is NOT a true story, though similar events may have happened.

@joseortega7815 6 ай бұрын

Now you have to watch: Samurai 7 (Anime) Magnificent Seven (1960) Magnificent Seven (2016) Edit: Also, A Bug's Life lol

@eliemoses 6 ай бұрын

Seen the magnificent 7's 🔥

@allclassallthetime4739 3 ай бұрын

hey for me and this is just me i don't know if anyone else from my generation and before is talking about, but what also made these so loved was not even the movie itself, it was the seeing the commercial announcements like two weeks before everyday on every commercial break of whatever it was you were watching. these were pegged in a prime sunday slot so how it would go in in 1990s, the fam would gather or tune it on and dare not go to the other channels, we'd all be coming back and watching part of it and of course we'd all be together in the payoff in the end. that's what was also how these got their 4 stars, does that make sense? it's not like technically, audiences were all film student level film lovers, they were just good fun to watch with the family just like the Wizard of Oz, those were seen as huge events and only showed once a year. Does that make sense?