>According to Michael Jeck's DVD commentary, Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Sholay, the western remake The Magnificent Seven, and Pixar's animated film A Bug's Life.[12]
It seems to me the first literary appearance of this trope was in the Argonautica, but were the Gospels the first iteration of it that actually show the recruitment process of going from person to person and them dropping what they're doing like to see in movies like the String and pic related?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA
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>the first iteration of it that actually show the recruitment process of going from person to person and them dropping what they're doing
It took quite a while to recruit Odyssey into Achaean fleet but when he did he made sure all others joined Agamemnon too