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Retread of the Seven

April 8, 2007 |

Busy couple of weeks– no time to blog, or, really, to dwell in the realm of cheese, until this evening, when I had to take a moment to note Return of the Seven.

Sometimes things are lost in translation– in the first Amercian/Western film, of course, what was lost was the Samurai. But at least it lived up to its added “Magnificent.” This time around, it’s “Magnificent” that we lose- and yeah, they called it.

While it’s great to see Yul Brynner’s antihero swagger through the Mexican desert– almost reprising his role as Pharoah, making slaves build walls without straw (for their own protection, of course)– I look at most of the rest of the cast and think, “who are these guys?”

At least they didn’t spare the horses, or the locations. And there’s hints that Dubya must have seen and internalized parts of this one– he’d give his flight suit to have a strut like Brynner, and there’s even a bit about “the good guys” standing by the farmers, so that one day they’d stand on their own… some distorted version of this finds its way into the “stand up/stand down” rhetoric.

But really, the whole thing is some as-yet-unidentified Mexican cheese– perhaps a Panela (mild, white and crumbly)?

PS– You could also add a dollop of Russian farmer’s cheese, in honor of Yul’s Russian heritage and the Mexican farmers…


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