re: Why Did The Western Die as a Genre?

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There aren't enough new samurai movies for them to rip off

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Kurosawa admits 7 Samurai was influenced by westerns, and Yojimbo was an uncredited version of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, which is essentially a western updated to the '20s.

So, to paraphrase a line credited to Joan Crawford, whom is ripping off whom...