Last Man Standing(1996) is the same movie as A Fistful of Dollars(1964)

Submitted by crazyhusker t3_10pph35 in movies

The premise of both films is exactly the same. One man plays both sides of town that has two rival gangs. The witless bartender plays friend to the lone gunslinger. The scenes play out in the same timeline, from him coming into town to the fire at one of the strongholds and the other side shooting everyone as they come out. Even the bartender getting caught as he is bringing provisions out to the gunslinger as he's rehabbing after being beaten. It is the exact same movie. It just takes place at different times in history.

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tinoynk t1_j6lp84g wrote

They're both the same as Yojimbo, which is the same as Dashiel Hammet's Red Harvest.

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voivod1989 t1_j6lvrkk wrote

Wow. You are observant. I wish one day I could be as observant as you.

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voivod1989 t1_j6lvvx9 wrote

Does anyone else think that magnificent 7 is the same movie as seven samurai?

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shrlytmpl t1_j6m0w5x wrote

And I know what you did last summer is the same movie as prom night.

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bongart t1_j6m4l42 wrote

Replying to tinoynk (#1,646,716)

Actually, Akira Kurosawa saw The Glass Key (1942), and made his own version. He even went so far as to copy/pay homage to it, with renditions of certain scenes, redone almost shot for shot in Yojimbo. For example, the captivity scene, where Yojimbo is in the brewery. He is being watched by a short thin man, and a tall fat man. They are playing a board game. They watch Yojimbo crawl across the floor, before the big man goes over, picks him up, and tosses him back in the room. This scene is taken directly from The Glass Key (down to the fact that both scenes take place in a brewery, the direction across the screen of the crawl, the sides of the table the thugs sit at... the fact that in both scenes they are playing a version of checkers, when the big one goes to pick up the hero, etc.).

Sergio Leone saw Yojimbo, and made his own version... and later got in trouble for not giving credit where credit was due.

Walter Hill saw all three, and put in nods to each of them. The bottle spin in the opening scene in Last Man Standing? That's Yojimbo throwing a stick in the air in the beginning. The dead horse in the street? That the dog with the hand in Yojimbo. The gang beating up Bruce's car? That's the mule scene from Fistful, as opposed to the initial confrontation scene from Yojimbo.

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Living-Reputation-35 t1_j6p4n7t wrote

Replying to voivod1989 (#1,648,654)

Ultimately, yes. From it's wiki: "The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges. The screenplay by William Roberts is a remake – in an Old West–style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai (itself initially released in the United States as The Magnificent Seven)"

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