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Once Upon a Time in the West
POSTED BY: cljohnston108
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 12:31
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Tuesday, March 6, 2007 12:31 PM
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Originally posted by daveshayne:
You might want to watch 'Yojimbo' (Dir. by Kurosawa) before A 'Fistful of Dollars'. It's the original and a fine piece of film in it's own right.
Yeah, there was a lotta flak between Kurosawa and Leone!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars
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Influence
Although the film was advertised in trailers as "the first film of its kind", the plot and even the cinematography was based almost entirely on Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo (written by Kurosawa and Ryuzo Kikushima). Yojimbo itself is based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, although Kurosawa never credited the author, despite acknowledging the source. Kurosawa remained insistent that he receive compensation. He wrote Leone: "It is a very fine film, but it is my film." The producers of Yojimbo successfully sued the production of A Fistful of Dollars for copyright infringement and gained an apology, $100,000 dollars and 15% of the box office totals in Asia to the movie in compensation. Kurosawa later admitted he quite liked A Fistful of Dollars and considered it a worthy remake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Harvest
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