Posted: 7/14/2013 10:40:10 PM EDT
| Watching it for the first time on Turner classic movies. And just drank half a glass of 100 proof cherry moonshine on the rocks. Now I think it's time for some popcorn. |
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is that moonshine cut with Robitussin? No its actually store bought moonshine with cherries in it. The brand is Midnight Moon. Says based on Junior Johnson's family recipe. All I know is that if I don't eat something when I drink it I get some terrible heartburn. |
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Quoted: So what's with the one samurai that has the sword that is almost as tall as him. Some form/equivalent of a two handed sword or more like a crab who has a giant claw to intimidate other crabs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cdachi |
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Excellent movie! I lauged at the scene where the oldest samurai (who had shaved his head) walked down the road rubbing his scalp... the first time I saw the movie, I'd shaved my head for the first time and was doing the very same thing!
'Cause someone else will mention it: The Seven Samurai was the basis of the movie "The Magnificent Seven." |
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is that moonshine cut with Robitussin? No its actually store bought moonshine with cherries in it. The brand is Midnight Moon. Says based on Junior Johnson's family recipe. All I know is that if I don't eat something when I drink it I get some terrible heartburn. For the encore make a wager with yourself to eat the cherries at the end. Dibs on ammo 
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So what's with the one samurai that has the sword that is almost as tall as him. Some form/equivalent of a two handed sword or more like a crab who has a giant claw to intimidate other crabs? That's a nodachi- he uses it well against some of the cavalry/mounted troops. |
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Trivia time:
Kurosawa insisted on realism. Everything had to be authentic. Think of the way Michael Mann gives all his characters in-depth histories and profiles. Here's something pretty damn cool: For Throne of Blood, in the scene where Washizu (Mifune) is attacked with arrows by his own men, the director had archers shoot real arrows, hollowed out and running along wires, toward Toshiro Mifune from a distance of about ten feet, with the actor carefully following chalk marks on the ground to avoid being hit. (Some of the arrows missed him by an inch; the actor, who admitted that he was not merely acting terrified in the film, suffered nightmares afterward) |
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Trivia time: Kurosawa insisted on realism. Everything had to be authentic. Think of the way Michael Mann gives all his characters in-depth histories and profiles. Here's something pretty damn cool: For Throne of Blood, in the scene where Washizu (Mifune) is attacked with arrows by his own men, the director had archers shoot real arrows, hollowed out and running along wires, toward Toshiro Mifune from a distance of about ten feet, with the actor carefully following chalk marks on the ground to avoid being hit. (Some of the arrows missed him by an inch; the actor, who admitted that he was not merely acting terrified in the film, suffered nightmares afterward) From the commentary on the DVD version of Seven Samurai that I own (actually own 2, the original and the commemorative edition), they said that for many of the arrow strikes on the actors, they shot real blunt tipped arrows into wooden boards under the actors clothes. BTW, I own at least one copy of every Kurosawa film, and most of Toshiro Mufume's. Yes, that includes Hell in the Pacific and 1941! Just not the race car driver one.....um...Grand Prix!
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