Question
This director remarked that an unlicensed movie based on one of his films was “a fine movie, but it was my movie.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this director whose company sued Sergio Leone for his film A Fistful of Dollars, which completely ripped off one of this man’s movies. A 1960 John Sturges film starring Yul Brynner was also based on one of this director’s movies.
ANSWER: Akira Kurosawa
[10e] John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Kurosawa’s film about seven of these warriors who help protect a village from bandits.
ANSWER: samurai [accept Seven Samurai or Shichinin no Samurai; accept rōnin]
[10h] Like A Fistful of Dollars, another movie based on Kurosawa’s Yojimbo was this 1966 film starring Franco Nero as a former Union soldier who carries around a coffin that holds a machine gun.
ANSWER: Django
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
Data
| RIT | Columbia Ly-α | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell Fire | Rochester A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell Wind | Cornell Earth | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rochester B | Rochester C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |