Dan: In a straight up fist fight, Sam Peckinpah would have kicked Kurosawa’s a**. Kidding aside, he was a giant in film making. One of my favorite movies when I was a kid was “The Magnificent Seven” (and who among us doesn’t find themselves humming that theme song every so often?).
Kurosawa’s films include well drawn lines of right and wrong (“Rashomon”) and good and evil, but with a tremendous degree of nuance and moral ambiguity (“Yojimbo”), along with the Actonian dangers of power (“Ran”).
We should probably discuss favorite Westerns as well. And a discussion including the knock on effects of John Wayne on American foreign policy in the 1950s and 1960s.
Gary Larson’s cartoon about the “School for the Gifted” (kid pushing on a door marked “Pull”) is still among the funniest I have ever seen.
