Bob Toomey (btoomey@javanet.com)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 03:41:49 -0400
> I just happened to see Bruce Willis in _Last Man
Standing_ and found it
> very hard-boiled, very Hammett-esque.
>
> Do any list members know whether it is based on a
novel?
Like Sergio Leone's _A Fistful of Dollars_, it's based on
Akira Kurasawa's brilliant samarai film, _Yojimbo_, which
also gave birth to John Belushi's scroungy samarai character
on Saturday Night Live. Many have noticed the resemblance of
the plot of _Yojimbo_ and Hammett's _Red Harvest_, but as far
as I know, Kurasawa has never acknowledged the influence. In
any case,
_Yojimbo_ is a work of art in its own right, tough and funny,
with a killer performance by Toshiro Mifune in the lead, and
well worth renting if you haven't seen it. It blows the
Willis movie away like the dandelion fluff that it is.
_Sanjuro_, the sequal to _Yojimbo_, is also worth seeing,
being even tougher and funnier.
BobT
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