Making a Samurai Western: Japan and the White Samurai Fantasy in the Last Samurai American pop culture such as Hollywood cinema has incorporated many Japanese samurai mythology and ideology for the entertainment of North Americans. Hollywood’s representation of Japan in contemporary cinema and television embodies “contradictions within the American popular discourse of Japan that draws on the historical relations between two countries as friend and enemy‚ as well as partner and competitor” (Shin
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An Old Movie in a New Light "The Last Samurai" is one of my favorite films; I have watched it at least ten times. This time around‚ I was forced to watch it from a completely different point of view. I had never realized how much you can learn about the Japanese culture from this movie. It depicts the Japanese culture very well‚ and shows the contrasts between that culture and American culture very blatantly. Although the main conflict of the film lies within the Japanese culture‚ it encompasses
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Courage is defined as the ability to conquer fear or despair. In both Beowulf and the Last Samurai‚ the heroes of each story had to fight obstacles and overcome fears to be victorious. Beowulf and the Samurai both showed unwavering courage and had honorable leadership skills. Beowulf was a very courageous character because he always went into battles with no fears in mind and he never gave up. In the story of Beowulf‚ Grendel‚ who is a monster that has a hatred for humans‚ went to attack Beowulf
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Reading for Understanding/ Response The movie “The Last Samurai” is about a broken man who goes to Japan to train the army. During an attack from the samurai warriors Algren shows courage and the will to fight. He’s brought to the samurai leader Ausomoto as a prisoner. Over time he learns the way of the samurai and aids his new found friends to fight against the empire. Concerning the meaning of this story‚ looking at the guiding question “What makes us who we are?” this story has to do with what
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the film ‘The Last Samurai’‚ directed by Edward Zwick and the poem ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’ by Robert Gray the composers have used techniques to make meaning‚ and have explored the challenges and obstacles faced by characters/society who change: firstly‚ through the past and the present; secondly; by the effect of external forces. Both composers have used techniques to convey that in order to move on from the past many challenges and obstacles may be faced. In ‘The Last Samurai’ Algren’s past
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This movie was set in Japan during the late 19th century. An American general who was famous for his many victorious battles against the Native Americans was called to Japan for a special task. The Japanese government was looking to make their civilization as western as possible. They adopted Western dress and began to shy away from the old warrior ways. New technologies such as firearms‚ cannons‚ trains‚ and photography were being instituted into their culture. The only thing holding the government
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Philosophical Issues of Personal Identity‚ in The Last Samurai One of the most important philosophical discussions resides in the realm of personal identity. This is a concept that define people from an individual to a nation‚ and even a species as a whole. Interestingly enough‚ one of the greatest struggles of personal identity is embedded in Japanese history. This philosophical investigation is captured and portrayed in the war-epic film The Last Samurai (2003)‚ directed by Edward Zwick. Furthermore
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Movie: The Last Supper Directed by Stacy Title The Last Supper‚ by Dan Rosen‚ supposedly dares to take on deep subjects in a vein of sarcastic humor. But‚ what it says is that liberals‚ because of their belief‚ have the right to pass death sentences on opponents. The story was amusing at times and there was some comedy in the film‚ but it didn ’t really go anywhere. The most famous actor in the film was Mark Harmon‚ and they showed him for about one minute‚ before he got killed. The movie
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Fall of Tradition: The Last Days of Feudal Japan C. A. Pollock Mark Ravina. The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori. Hoboken‚ NJ: John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc.‚ 2003. 265 pages. Hardcover $32.50; softcover $16.95. During the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the succession of a modernizing Meiji government‚ the so-called Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 became the definitive last stand of Japanese feudalistic resistance towards modernization. The life of Saigo Takamori‚ the books
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Movie: The Last Emperor On 1908 in Peking The emperor I-Sin-Ger-Oh-Who-Eee‚ son of prince Dredd‚ at the age of two‚ was crowned because emperorist Dowager was dieing. He was chosen because Dowager was his grandmother. The only thing that was bad was that they took him from his mother and gave him this lady that they called his "Wet nurse"‚ which mainly breast fed him and took care of him. Also he was not allowed to leave the empire. In the beginning after he was crowned emperor everybody waited
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