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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 19 October, 1966 DVD Release : 02 April, 2002 |
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Return of the Magnificent Seven description Yul Brynner returns to lead a new band of gunfighters in this sequel to the classic Magnificent Seven, which delivers enough Western action to please genre fans. Return has Brynner's Chris recruiting a new Seven to rescue original member Chico (Julian Mateos, replacing Horst Buchholz), who has been kidnapped by a bandit (Emilio Fernandez) ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Shades of WWII and Vietnam |
| As I watched this rather unusual western, it occured to me that the main characters and plot bore a striking resemblance to that of the European theater of WWII. For example, like Hitler, Lorca is a madman, willing to sacrifice his fortune, the lives of many of his employees and even his own life to accomplish his obsessive goal: in this case,to build a monument to his supposedly cherished slain sons. But,like Hitler, his obsession really has more to do with salvaging his own bruised ego than about his offficial justification for his evil acts. Like the Nazis, Lorca uses slave labor to help accomplish his goal. In this case, it is the unarmed peons of several villages whom he kidnaps. The peons are analogous to the seemingly helpless Jews and Slavs. The hastilly organized "Gang of Seven"(really 6) American gunslingers represent the Western Allies. In trying to free these slave villagers, they put themselves at great risk. However, as in the case of the USSR, the
peons unexpectedly play the major part in the final defeat of Lorca's "army". However, they need the help of the Gang, just as the USSR needed the help of the Western Allies to crush the Nazis.... As has been pointed out by another, there are also certain parallels with our then increasing involvement in Vietnam. At one point, there is a plea by the slaves that everyone would be better off if the Gang left, as Lorca threatens to kill them as well as the Gang if they continue to resist.If they don't resist, Lorca promises to return them to their homes unharmed after they finish his project. The Gang must then decide whether it is likely in the interests of the villagers as well as themselves to stay and fight against seemingly impossible odds... Toward the end of the film, Brynner reveals that he has a complex past relationship with Lorca and his sons. In the end, he fulfills his interrupted obligation to Lorca's deceased sons(see the film, to find out what this is). In fact, toward the end, I think this is his chief motivation for doing what he his doing.... If you can stomach all the many implausibilities in this story, it is a reasonably entertaining film with a complex set of personal stories to tell, if you take the effort to absorb them all. Given all the gunplay, both the Mexicans and Americans must have been incredibly bad shots and incredibly foolhardy in openly exposing themselves to gunfire that should have killed them several times over. At times, Lorca is standing so vulnerable that he seems to be asking to be killed. One gets the impression that the chief antagonists would much rather have settled their differences with swordplay than with bullets. |
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