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The Magnificent seven

posted 13 years ago by gutz1981
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When it comes to westerns, I always look to see if I can connect actors to their previous roles in other westerns they played in, (i.e Characters like William munny in Unforgiven connected to Blondie), but never close. In Nevada Smith however I can see the character of Max being the origin story of the charater Vin from The Magnificent Seven. Why?, because Max sand had a tendency to change his name often in this movie, and in Seven when asked by Chris (Yul) "what's your name", McQueen's character answered "Make it Vin", by then Max was so use to changing his name he didnt care much what it was. I like the idea of this film being "Vin's" backstory.

[–] gayspiritwarrior 13 years ago

This movie is an imagined prequel to The Carpetbaggers. In that movie Nevada Smith--played by Alan Ladd--is an aging former cowboy turned western movie star in early Hollywood. This movie is screenwriter John Michael Hayes's idea of Smith's earlier life.

"The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it."--Oscar Wilde

[–] moewadle 12 years ago

Gayspiritwarrior...I have to disagree with your statement that, "This movies is John Michael Hayes' idea of Smith's earlier life. I must correct you and say that you are very, very wrong. Harold Robbins is the author of the book, THE CARPETBAGGERS. The Nevada Smith (Max Sand) character was in that book and the movie story follows the book fairly well regarding Nevada Smith. J. M. Hayes simply wrote a screenplay or at least a story for a screenplay taken right out of Robbins' book. I have read the book and can verify what I say by virtue of reading the book. The book's story continues with Nevada Smith becoming involved with the Jonas Cord family and eventually Nevada becomes a big cowboy movie star in the early days of motion pictures.