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<blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 1944545" data-attributes="member: 9213"><p>The "good guys" win in those movies, but I wouldnt exactly call those endings "happy". The cost of the victory in SEVEN SAMURAI is way high and for what? It was a noble thing for the Samurai to make the sacrifice that they didi to protect the village but the cost was high, more than half of thier original number dead. </p><p></p><p>Yojimbo definitely wasnt a happy story to being with. I mean anytime you have a film where the main character walks into a town and the first thing that he sees is a dog trotting by with a severed hand in it's mouth, well, it sets a certain tone you know. </p><p></p><p>But overall I agree with you about Lucas and Star Wars. I was watching the documentary Empire of Dreams and both Harrison Ford and Lawrence Kasdan (writer) thought that there should be a sacrifice and that sacrifice should have been Han Solo. the impression that I got was that if he died that the audience would know that the stakes would be raised and that anyone could go. Also Hans story arc was bascially completed, there was really nowhere else to go with his character, but lucas refused to kill his character because he wanted to show that good always triumphs at the end.</p><p></p><p>I like movies where the battle is hard fought and the good guys win, but there's a cost. One of the reason the I absolutely love the original DIE HARD is that every encounter that John MClaine has with the "terrorists" cost him something. He gets banged up so that at the end of the movie he's literally the walking wounded, he's been shot, slammed into the side of a building, burnt, pummeled, cut with broken glass, I mean he's a mess and it shows. He feels that pain. The only one of the Star Warrs movies that comes close to this kind of thing is EMPIRE, because the good guys arre on the defensive from the beginning and remain so throughout the entire movie. I mean not for nothing, Luke gets the CRAP beat out of him by Vader in that duel and it's cool because Luke came into that fight thinking that he was actually going to be effective and was simply outclassed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ShinHakkaider, post: 1944545, member: 9213"] The "good guys" win in those movies, but I wouldnt exactly call those endings "happy". The cost of the victory in SEVEN SAMURAI is way high and for what? It was a noble thing for the Samurai to make the sacrifice that they didi to protect the village but the cost was high, more than half of thier original number dead. Yojimbo definitely wasnt a happy story to being with. I mean anytime you have a film where the main character walks into a town and the first thing that he sees is a dog trotting by with a severed hand in it's mouth, well, it sets a certain tone you know. But overall I agree with you about Lucas and Star Wars. I was watching the documentary Empire of Dreams and both Harrison Ford and Lawrence Kasdan (writer) thought that there should be a sacrifice and that sacrifice should have been Han Solo. the impression that I got was that if he died that the audience would know that the stakes would be raised and that anyone could go. Also Hans story arc was bascially completed, there was really nowhere else to go with his character, but lucas refused to kill his character because he wanted to show that good always triumphs at the end. I like movies where the battle is hard fought and the good guys win, but there's a cost. One of the reason the I absolutely love the original DIE HARD is that every encounter that John MClaine has with the "terrorists" cost him something. He gets banged up so that at the end of the movie he's literally the walking wounded, he's been shot, slammed into the side of a building, burnt, pummeled, cut with broken glass, I mean he's a mess and it shows. He feels that pain. The only one of the Star Warrs movies that comes close to this kind of thing is EMPIRE, because the good guys arre on the defensive from the beginning and remain so throughout the entire movie. I mean not for nothing, Luke gets the CRAP beat out of him by Vader in that duel and it's cool because Luke came into that fight thinking that he was actually going to be effective and was simply outclassed. [/QUOTE]
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