Word: codas
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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KUROSAWA SAID he was making an antiwar film with Seven Samurai as well; he tacked on a coda where the survivors bitterly realized that their fellow samurai had died for nothing. But we go back to that film for the kinetic charge of the battle scenes, for the lyrical action. Like Peckinpah in The Wild Bunch, Kurosawa inadvertently ended up affirming the violence he set out to condemn. Now, he has made a true anti-war film, with all the horror of battle and none of the thrill...
...likes to slum in Gilley's. The destinies of these people, all of whom are about as articulate as the mechanical beast, are finally worked out in a riding contest - a sit-out instead of a Shootout - between Bud and Wes and in an even more melodramatic coda. This provides added opportunities for heroics and also a neat enough resolution. It is, however, a most improbable ending...