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Seven Samurai: Is There a More Influential Action Film? (2x2)

Udgivelsesdato: Jan 28, 2024

Season 2's "community" theme kicks off with the patriarch of modern action cinema, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. An epic story of samurai helping a small village community defend itself against raiders, Seven Samurai puts its characters front and center, and is a masterclass on how to earn a three hour runtime. Clint, Cal, and Alex break down its place in film history as a foundational text on action cinema, the nuts-and-bolts brilliance of staging and shooting the moving and panning shots that keep everything in focus, and the physical and mental toll the film took on those both in front of, and behind, the camera.