History YMMV / TheMagnificentSeven1960

* AdaptationDisplacement: The film is much more known in the west than the Japanese film it's based on.

** Russian-born Swiss Creator/YulBrynner as a Cajun and Polish-Jewish American Creator/EliWallach as a Mexican. But both are so awesome that it's not that big of an issue.

* WTHCastingAgency:
** Russian-born Swiss Creator/YulBrynner as a Cajun and Polish-Jewish American Creator/EliWallach as a Mexican. But both are so awesome that it's not that big of an issue.
** Creator/CharlesBronson too, as an Irish-Mexican when in fact he was neither of those; the above corollary still applies.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/ElmerBernstein's score, particularly the unforgettable [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA main title theme]]. Eli Wallach (who portrayed the bandit leader Calvera) once remarked that if he'd have heard Elmer's music during filming, he'd have ridden his horse better.

** Creator/CharlesBronson too, as an Irish-Mexican when in fact he was neither of those, the above corollary still applies.

* LawfulGood: Chris doesn't take all that much convincing to help out an impoverished Mexican village with their bandit problem. Even when the going gets tough, he never once considers abandoning them, despite the fact that the pay for the job is rather poor (twenty dollars plus room and board) and he makes it clear that, when he promised to protect those farmers, he meant it.

* ValuesDissonance: Race issues are deliberately addressed at times, particularly how white people are treated by authorities compared to Mexicans.
-->'''Calvera''': You'll do much better on the other side of the border. There you can steal cattle, hold up trains... all you have to face is sheriff, marshall. Once I rob a bank in Texas; your government get after me with a whole army. Whole army! One little bank. Is clear, the meaning: in Texas, only Texans can rob banks.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The film is much more known in the west than the Japanese film it's based on, to the point many people actually ignore it's based on something to begin with.

* EstrogenBrigade: Let's see: we have the very handsome Creator/YulBrynner, Creator/SteveMcQueenActor, pretty boy Creator/HorstBuchholz, Creator/JamesCoburn, Creator/RobertVaughn and the charismatic, unconventionally handsome Creator/EliWallach. Yes, these are reasons enough.

* HarsherInHindsight: Creator/EliWallach (Calvera) outlived all but one (Creator/RobertVaughn, who died two years after Wallach) of the actors who played the Seven.

* CounterpartComparison: Inevitable for almost each of the seven, save for Lee and Harry.
** Chris and Kambei - Both are the cerebral leader and the first to help the farmers in need. However, Chris is more welcoming towards Chico and not so scornful of his class, although skeptical of his abilities as a fighter.
** Vin and Shichiroji - Both are the loyal second-in-command who [[spoiler: are one of the only three to survive at the end.]] Also, like Gorobei, he is the second one to join.
** Chico is a CompositeCharacter of Katsushiro and Kikuchiyo - the eager outsiders. Like Katsushiro, he is young and inexperienced and forms a romance with one of the village girls; like Kikuchiyo, he makes himself a bit obnoxious in his eagerness and is looked down on as a wannabe by most of the more seasoned fighters, but turns out to have a better understanding of how to deal with the villagers than they do (since he comes from the same kind of background) and proves himself a valuable member of the team.
** Lee and Kikuchiyo are polar opposites in personality yet have a surprising number of things in common. Both are somewhat mysterious and have done something, or do something that they regret and are in or go through a HeroicBSOD during the film; Lee has made so many enemies that he can barely show his face, while Kikuchiyo's jealousy of Kyuzo leads to abandoning his contingent of farmers, [[spoiler: leading to Yohei's and Gorobei's deaths]]. Both [[spoiler: suffer a RedemptionEqualsDeath in the FinalBattle whilst rescuing a group of farmers held up by bandits in a farmhouse]].
** Bernardo and Heihachi - Both are first seen chopping wood for a living. Whereas Heihachi is cheerful and upbeat, Bernardo is serious and observant.
** Britt and Kyuzo - Both are the serious, silent, introverted types who are better with a blade than with a bullet. However, Britt is not quite as conservative and uptight as Kyuzo is. Additionally, Britt plays the BadassBaritone straight while Kyuzo inverts it.
** Petra and Shino. Both characters are disguised as boys to be protected from the group of wandering strangers, yet have a relationship with the movie's youngest fighter once their gender is revealed. Unlike Shino, [[spoiler: Petra is allowed to stay with Chico in the end]].

* AwesomeMusic: Music/ElmerBernstein's score, particularly the unforgettable [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA main title theme]]. Eli Wallach (who portrayed the bandit leader Calvera) once remarked that if he'd have heard Elmer's music during filming, he'd have ridden his horse better.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Calvera telling his comrades to forget about their fellow fallen bandits. Was he really that careless about his own men, or did the loss hurt enough that he was turning his attention to the future of the ones that were still alive? Was he hiding his own sadness and trying to be optimistic? In fact, Creator/EliWallach never saw Calvera as a villain, just a guy trying to make a living.

** Britt and Kyuzo - Both are the serious, silent, introverted types who are better with a blade than with a bullet. However, Britt is not quite as conservative and uptight as Kyuzo is.

* SurprisinglySimilarCharacters: Lee and Kikuchiyo are polar opposites in personality yet have a surprising number of things in common. Both are somewhat mysterious and have done something, or do something that they regret and are in or go through a HeroicBSOD during the film; Lee has made so many enemies that he can barely show his face, while Kikuchiyo's jealousy of Kyuzo leads to abandoning his contingent of farmers, [[spoiler: leading to Yohei's and Gorobei's deaths]]. Both [[spoiler: suffer a RedemptionEqualsDeath in the FinalBattle whilst rescuing a group of farmers held up by bandits in a farmhouse]].

* RepurposedPopSong: The title theme's main riff is widely known for its later use in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQmpqvoEpws Marlboro cigarette]] commercials and Arthur Conley's 1968 hit "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grE0lwTsSPg Sweel Soul Music]]".
** In Australia, a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong knockoff of the tune]] was famously used for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nszIJDswTBM Victoria Bitter]] ads.

* ValuesResonance: The men opposing Old Sam being buried in the local cemetery are called out as bigots by pretty much everyone, and only make progress because the civilians are terrified of them. The salesman who pays for a stranger's funeral out of his own pocket stands out.

* EstrogenBrigade: Let's see: we have the very handsome Creator/YulBrynner, Creator/SteveMcQueenActor, pretty boy Creator/HorstBuchholz, Creator/JamesCoburn, and the charismatic, unconventionally handsome Creator/EliWallach. Yes, these are reasons enough.

* EstrogenBrigade: Let's see: we have the very handsome Creator/YulBrynner, Creator/SteveMcQueenActor, pretty boy Horst Bucholz, Creator/JamesCoburn, and the charismatic, unconventionally handsome Eli Wallach. Yes, these are reasons enough.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Calvera telling his comrades to forget about their fellow fallen bandits. Was he really that careless about his own men, or did the loss hurt enough that he was turning his attention to the future of the ones that were still alive? Was he hiding his own sadness and trying to be optimistic? In fact, Eli Wallach never saw Calvera as a villain, just a guy trying to make a living.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Lee, of the gunslinger archetype. His sharp eye, fast hands, and take-no-crap attitude has given him... a life of jumping at every shadow for fear of the next person to try to take his title, and paying exorbitant amounts of money to sleep in stables and storehouses because inn-keepers are afraid their place will be shot up if they let him have a room.
* EstrogenBrigade: Let's see: we have the very handsome Creator/YulBrynner, Creator/SteveMcQueen, pretty boy Horst Bucholz, Creator/JamesCoburn, and the charismatic, unconventionally handsome Eli Wallach. Yes, these are reasons enough.
* HarsherInHindsight: Eli Wallach (Calvera) outlived all but one (Robert Vaughn, who died two years after Wallach) of the actors who played the Seven.
* LoveToHate: Calvera. He's ruthless and cruel, but he's so much fun to watch! Even those who don't like the film enjoy Wallach's glorious scenery-chewing.

* WTHCastingAgency: Russian-born Swiss Creator/YulBrynner as a Cajun and Polish-Jewish American Eli Wallach as a Mexican. But both are so awesome that it's not that big of an issue.
** Charles Bronson too, as an Irish-Mexican when in fact he was neither of thosel the above corollary still applies.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/YulBrynner as a Cajun and Eli Wallach as a Mexican. But both are so awesome that it's not that big of an issue.