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Last Man Standing (1996)\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Director: Walter Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Walter Hill\u00a0<\/strong>based on Yojimbo<\/em> by Akira Kurosawa<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson, Christopher Walken, David Patrick Kelly, Ned Eisenberg, Alexandra Powers, Ken Jenkins, Ted Markland, Leslie Mann, Patrick Kilpatrick, Luis Contreras, Raynor Scheine, Tiny Ron, John Paxton, Michael Cavalieri, Matt O’Toole<\/strong> and Michael Imperioli<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: There are two sides to every war. And John Smith is on both of them.<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/p>\n John Smith (Willis), a prohibition gun thug, is on the lam.\u00a0 Smith is headed for Mexico when he stops in a small nearly deserted border town.\u00a0 Two rival gangs, one Italian, the other Irish, have run most of the townsfolk off.\u00a0 The two crews have an uneasy truce.\u00a0 But both gangs are looking for a way to wipe out the other.<\/p>\n John Smith sees easy money in his future.\u00a0 It’s risky, but Smith plans to work both sides with neither realizing it.\u00a0 The best laid plans…<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Last Man Standing<\/em>, like A Fistful of Dollars<\/em>, is based on the Japanese film Yojimbo<\/a> directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa.\u00a0 Many think that Kurosawa based his story on Dashiell Hammett’s RED HARVEST<\/a>.\u00a0 Kurosawa says that his film was actually based on Hammett’s THE GLASS KEY<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last Man Standing<\/em> has a John Woo feel to it.<\/p>\n Last Man Standing (1996)\u00a0 <\/i><\/b>rates 3 of 5 stars. Last Man Standing (1996)\u00a0 Director: Walter Hill Screenplay: Walter Hill\u00a0based on Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa Stars: Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36130,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36126\/revisions\/36130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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