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The Three Greatest Scenes in Seven Samurai

 

The First Greatest Scene In Seven Samurai

The beginning scene where they recruit the samurai. It's exciting, and fun. The beginning of a slow tragedy, and this is the start of it. They begin with recruiting the team(an innovation at the time, now the singular most well-known and most-used plot trop in action and heist films). The first Samurai Kambei, they ask for help, the second Samurai, Gorobei(Chopping Wood), Heihachi(Trapped Him), and Kyuzo,(fought against another man), and his friend Schichiroji, and Kikuchiyo, and also Katsushiro, a young man who wishes to be a Samurai. This is one of the happiest, most fun scenes, in the movie overall, because it does not, in the slightest bit, foreshadow the consequences and tragedy to come.

The Second Greatest scene in Seven Samurai

The middle scene is where Kikuchiyo gains retribution against the Samurai that have brought battles, raids, taxation, and forced labor that devastate the villager’s lives. He reveals his origin as an orphaned farmer’s son. Then Kikuchiyo gives them armor and weapons from injured and dying samurai, and the Samurai’s anger turns to shame. One of the greatest things about this scene is it mixes drama expertly while also revealing more about the characters.


The Third Greatest Scene In Seven Samurai

In the end scene, when it ends in tragedy, two of the Samurai are shot and killed by the bandit captain, while threatening the women of the village. But Kikichiyo redeems himself by killing the bandit. Yet, he gets himself killed in the process. Okamoto, Kambei, and Shichiroji are left alone with the dead samurai to bury and the weight of guilty war burdening their lives forever.

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