When The Magnificent Seven hit screens in 1960 (being a re-imagining/remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai), moviegoers were content to escape into the world of seven gunmen hired to defend a small Mexican village. Now the film’s modern remake, which saw its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, centers on a diverse septet as they work to defend a village against a corrupt industrialist in post-Civil War America.
The Western genre is in a bit of a modern Renaissance, with filmmakers producing works as varied as Brokeback Mountain, No Country for Old Men, and True Grit to much acclaim in the past decade. Even in Old Hollywood, the Western genre gave filmmakers a way to interpret modern conflict and cultural anxieties in a ...
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