{"id":321,"date":"2007-02-03T23:40:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T23:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applecrumble.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/03\/morgan-freeman-in-the-seven-samurai-well-almost\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:31:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T11:31:19","slug":"morgan-freeman-in-the-seven-samurai-well-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/03\/morgan-freeman-in-the-seven-samurai-well-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Freeman in The Seven Samurai (well, almost…)"},"content":{"rendered":"
We went to see the Sunday matinee of The Seven Samurai<\/a> at The Rex<\/a> last weekend. I’ve wanted to see the film for ages and it was great that a chance came up at our lovely cinema. I wasn’t disappointed – for a Japanese film made in the 1950s it was surprisingly accessible and I could see exactly why it was remade as a western<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t help feeling that I had seen the actor playing the main samurai somewhere before. Towards the end of the film it hit me – he was the spitting image of Morgan Freeman. A little digging turfed up this picture<\/a> of Takashi Shimura – take a look for yourself to see what I mean. I think it was that he was doing so much of the ‘staring in disbelief and not daring to speak’ type-poses that really did it for me. I thought it was really cool that I wasn’t the first person to make this connection – see this review<\/a> at the Internet Movie Database.<\/p>\n

Great film, great way to spend a Sunday afternoon.<\/p><\/div>\n

We went to see the Sunday matinee of The Seven Samurai at The Rex last weekend. I’ve wanted to see the film for ages and it was great that a chance came up at our lovely cinema. I wasn’t disappointed – for a Japanese film made in the 1950s it was surprisingly accessible and I […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-berkhamsted","7":"category-film","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6304,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2020\/08\/25\/weeknotes-81-rangers\/","url_meta":{"origin":321,"position":0},"title":"Weeknotes #81 \u2014 Rangers","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"25 August 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A week of trying to \u2018dig in\u2019 and getting things moved along and prepped as much as I can for when I will be \u2018out of the office\u2019 for a few days next week. 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