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Ikrik:
Yeah, I'm talking about the REALLY cheesy hardcore films from the 60's-80's or whenever the franchise kind of stopeed. My friend recommended to me Assassin of Youth in which kids smoke pot and kill themselves and each other.
plumbob78:
If anyone is into Spaghetti Westerns, I recommend watching Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Because A Fistfull of Dollars is just Yojimbo transplanted from feudal Japan to Mexico. Same plot: nameless drifter shows up in a town being ruined by two rival gangs and plays the two sides off of each other. Even one of the scenes is identical in both movies, just just with swords instead of guns. Good stuff.
Ikrik:
--- Quote from: plumbob78 on 18 May 2008, 08:28 ---If anyone is into Spaghetti Westerns, I recommend watching Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Because A Fistfull of Dollars is just Yojimbo transplanted from feudal Japan to Mexico. Same plot: nameless drifter shows up in a town being ruined by two rival gangs and plays the two sides off of each other. Even one of the scenes is identical in both movies, just just with swords instead of guns. Good stuff.
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You forgot to mention that Toshiro Mifune is totally badass.
"The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression; Mifune needed only three." -Akira Kurosawa
That quote is no exaggeration....and there's pretty much not a single better person for it to come from. Mifune acted in over 170 movies in a course of approximately 40 years. In Yojimbo he makes scratching himself into an interesting character trait....the guy is amazing. And Yojimbo was heavily inspired by a book called Red Harvest (so said by many critics) but Kurosawa stated that a movie called The Glass Key inspired and was basically adapted for Yojimbo.
And if you like Yojimbo......check out the rest of Kurosawa's work, he is truly the god of Japanese cinema.
TheFuriousWombat:
Incidentally, both Red Harvest and The Glass Key were books written in the 1930s by Dashiell Hammett, one of the original, not to mention one of the greatest, authors of hard-boiled detective fiction ever. He was also a Pinkerton for a while, which makes him kind of of a jerk probably but he's a great writer.
Static:
6 sick hipsters by Rayo Casablanca. The characters are wonderfully fucked up and the plot is amazing. take QC, add a decade and some very serious neuroses, a serial killer, stir well, and serve frothy. I was glued to this book all weekend.
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