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From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris Keesan)
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Subject: Re: a new and *fun* topic! (double features)
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Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 15:59:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 13 15:59:35 1984
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    I've been trying for years to get some of the local repertory houses to
schedules such double bills as

    The Seven Samurai (original Japanese title translates as "The Magnificent
Seven")/The Magnificent Seven
    Rashomon/The Outrage("Western" remake of Rashomon)
    Yojimbo/whichever Clint Eastwood spaghetti western was based on Yojimbo

Other interesting double bills:
    Sword of Doom/Star Wars (some astonishing parallels here)
    Star Wars/The Wizard of Oz (also some amusing parallels -- when the good
guys impersonate storm troopers just after they arrive at the Death Star, I
can't help thinking of the cowardly Lion dressed up as one of the Wicked
Witch's guards, trying to hide his tail.  And in Remake of the Jedi, the
Ewooks are clearly munchkin-substitutes.)
-- 
					Morris M. Keesan
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