Magnificent Seven

Heroic gunslingers, seven

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film about seven gunslingers hired to protect a Mexican village from bandits—itself a remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

The phrase now refers to any elite group of seven, most recently the seven dominant tech stocks driving U.S. market gains in the 2020s: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, and Tesla.

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Yul Brynner · Steve McQueen · samurai · outlaws · Mexico · village · horseback · riding off · showdown · hired · heroes · Charles Bronson · remake · Kurosawa · pistols · dusty · frontier · revenge

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Opposites
narrative structure: ensemble vs. individual

Magnificent SevenShane

Irish male name

High Noon · lone ranger · one-man army · lone wolf

moral alignment: heroic defenders vs. villainous aggressors

Magnificent Sevenoutlaw gang

Criminal group evading law

marauders · oppressors · The Dirty Dozen · bandits · raiders

competence: elite skilled fighters vs. bumbling amateurs

Magnificent SevenThree Amigos

Chase, Martin, Short film

Blazing Saddles

Family

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Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG