105 Behind the Scenes of "The Magnificent Seven" | Brian Hannan
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
I've started to develop quite a love for Western films lately and The Magnificent Seven is definitely among the top. But aside from being a great film, there is an incredible story behind The Magnificent Seven which could have been a movie in itself!
In this episode I'm joined by Brian Hannan, author of The Making of The Magnificent Seven, to talk about this unbelievable story behind the movie.
Tune in to learn…
-About the 3 hour, 1954 Japanese film that The Magnificent Seven is based on,
-About the Mexican government interference that literally rewrote the script,
-Why it was a flop on release and later a box office hit,
-About the scene-stealing antics among the 7 actors,
-& so much more!
Grab a copy of The Making of The Magnificent Seven: Behind the Scenes of the Pivotal Western...
On Indiebound at https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780786496952
On Amazon at https://amzn.to/30CJMTc (affiliate link)
Check out Brian's website, https://themagnificent60s.com, for more info on films of the 1960s.
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the 105th episode of Curiosityness. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Travis DeRose, your host. |
| 0:16.1 | And hey, you might have noticed things look a little different. |
| 0:19.6 | I got a made a new logo, |
| 0:21.7 | rebranded the whole thing a little bit, kept it blue, similar, you know, try to not change it too |
| 0:27.5 | much, but had a little cartoon of myself made, kept 3D glasses. So just wanted to mix it up a little |
| 0:34.0 | bit. So hopefully you like the new change. But let's get to the episode, |
| 0:38.7 | because I have on Brian Hannan, and we're talking about The Magnificent Seven, the film, |
| 0:45.2 | the movie, 1960s. If you've never seen it, you probably want to watch it beforehand. |
| 0:51.5 | If you like The Magnificent Seven, if you like the film, I think |
| 0:55.0 | you're going to love this episode. If you don't like the film, if you've never seen it, |
| 0:59.3 | this probably isn't the episode for you. But it's a really cool story. Brian wrote the book on it, |
| 1:04.3 | literally like behind the scenes, all the info you could ever want. So he's got a ton of information. |
| 1:10.7 | And aside from it being a really good movie, there is a shitload of really cool information on the back end of how this thing was made. And, you know, stuff on set was Steve McQueen, kind of wanted to one up the other actors, Yule Brenner. Uh, it's a really fun story. So I, I think you will enjoy it if you're a film fan, if you're a movie fan, if you like |
| 1:31.5 | The Magnificent Seven, this episode is for you. |
| 1:34.8 | I enjoyed it. |
| 1:35.9 | So let's stop the Amaran here and let's get to the episode with Brian Hannan. |
| 1:43.2 | All right, we're rolling. How you doing, Brian? Yeah, I'm fine. Thank you. |
| 1:48.2 | Thanks for coming on, man. Appreciate it. Good to meet you and excited to talk about the Magnificent Seven. |
| 1:54.3 | Yeah, yeah. I was watching it again today and I struck how good it is again. |
| 1:59.3 | Yeah, such a fun film. I was just, I mean, I probably watched it for again. Yeah, such a fun film. |
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