Talk:Last Man Standing (1996 film)

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The Dashiell Hammett influence should be mentioned here. While Yojimbo is credited, Last man... includes motives from the Red harvest that's not included by Kurozawa. What's more, the film also includes ideas from Hammett's short story "Corkscrew" -- and the opening scene of Last man... is identical to the opening scene in Hammett's short story "Nightmare Town".

While the character's name is Giorgio Carmonte, he is constantly referred to in the film by his first name, unlike Strozzi, Doyle, and Hickey. Shouldn't the article be changed to use Giorgio in place of Carmonte, in spite of the slight breach of consistency? Saturn 5 16:52, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to go ahead and make those changes. Please discuss here before reverting, as my RFC has been up for a month now, with no comments. (I was Saturn 5, fyi.... not sure why the name-change script didnt hit this page). Arakunem 16:30, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When I saw this movie I said "why, this is a remake of A Fistful of Dollars", not realising that the Leone film was itself a remake of Yojimbo. I've inserted a reference to the connection into the lead. --Tony Sidaway 16:44, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The usage of the term "Pyrrhic victory" in this article doesn't seem legitimate to me. A Pyrrhic victory means you won but at devastating cost. Smith didn't actually suffer any devastating loss: he came into town without the money, he destroyed two gangs and saved two innocent people, and he drives out of town without the money. I'd say that at the very least, he just broke even. Atypicaloracle (talk) 19:57, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, perhaps "Hollow victory" or "shallow" fits better. He "won", but in the end, nothing really changed for him. Arakunem^Talk 16:47, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say the term as used by critics is a pun, relating to the word pyrotechnics and how they're burning down the house in the end. By that, critics are pretty much saying that the violence in the film would be both pointless, formulaic, cheap, and ridiculous. They didn't like how violent the film was and they didn't like the film's moral, as they obviously didn't realize it's a spot-on neo-noir, and the film nailed that perfectly not only in its lighting and cinematography, but also in Smith's shady, even shabby morals. It's sad how Ebert didn't like the uber-German Expressionism of Brazil (1985), confused Burton's stylistically expressionist Brazil rip-of with Batman (1989) for Film noir, confused The City of Lost Children (1995), another Brazil rip-off, with Kubrick's 2001 (1968) in style, and couldn't tell that Last Man Standing is a spot-on neo-noir. --2003:71:4E07:3E93:5551:3DA8:1713:C70A (talk) 18:15, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:40, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed the part that says Fistful was an official remake of Yojimbo (and added citation); though it was a remake, it wasn't an official one. This note is in case there is a question about it.

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