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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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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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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The movie The Last Samurai was not only a great fighting action movie but it also touched on human spirituality‚ cultural‚ lifestyle difference and the effect of Japanese culture on a western man. The movie was created in 2003 and takes place in Jap in the 1860s. An American military advisor is embraces the samurai culture that he was hired to destroy after being capture. The battle scenes in The Last Samurai are accurate to how the samurai fought back then from weapons to battle strategies.
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Analysis of “The Last Samurai” Film Based On Postmodern Theory By: Mauliana Dewi (090511100001) English Department Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences Trunojoyo University of Madura 2012 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Films are made to be seen and heard‚ to appeal to our visual and aural senses. Like any art form‚ however‚ films are also meant to be felt and understood‚ to appeal to our emotions and minds. One of the best ways to determine whether a film has succeeded in any or all of
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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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Cameron’s Avatar‚ and Edward Zwinks’ The Last Samurai‚ the protagonists must find a way to learn and live through the native culture. Going native is need for survival in an unknown place. Wearing the clothing‚ learning the language‚ falling in love‚ taking part in lifestyle activities‚ and risking their lives to be trusted are part of going native. All three works show the protagonist learning to speak the native language. Nathan Algren in The Last Samurai and John Blackthorne in Shōgun learn Japanese
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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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Nathaniel Forbes English 7 M s Harris 11/11/12 The poem “Invictus” by William E. Henley‚ and the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand‚ both have common themes that discuss the importance of individuality in each society are forbid and belief of the unspeakable word ego and the word I should be eliminated from the vocabulary in a effort to eradicated the true “evil” are present as individualism. One of the common themes between Rand’s novel‚ and Henley’s poem is that‚ both of the main characters of
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