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Look Abroad For Inspiration, and Bring it Home to Profit!
Many creative ideas are far from orgional instead they come from looking aborad at the stories from other cultures or from looking back and updating history. Other creative concepts come form simply taking a different perpective on the same story or idea.
East Meets West, The Wild West
Akira Kurosawa is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. The Japanese film director and screenwriter directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. You most likely saw two of his most famous films, even if not in their original form, the Seven Samurai and Yojimbo.
The first was reshot in the USA as the Magnificent Seven with Cowboys substituting for Samurai, although the story remained the same.
His second film Yojimbo was reshot in Spain in 1962 and created an entirely new gene of a cowboy movie, the spaghetti western. Directed by Italian Sergio Leone, A Fist Full of Dollars was shot on a tiny budget of just $200,000 and paid its little-known actor just $15,000 as it catapulted Clint Eastwood into stardom. Spawning a trilogy that would later include a Few Dollars More and the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
The first movie was such a blatant retelling of the original Japanese movie, albeit three thousand miles…