Re: my review: The Last Samurai

On 30 Nov 2003 14:05:17 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (zach)
wrote:

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>> The final battle is certainly well crafted though. The director is Edward
>> Zwick, who made Glory, and he was obviously inspired by the battle in
>> Kurosawa's Ran. That's another thing: the war sequences in the movie are pretty
>> raw and violent, like Braveheart or Gladiator, and yet many audiences hate
>> Verhoeven films or things like Kill Bill. I'm beginning to think that
>> "high-brow" middle-aged theater-goers really do have a thirst for bloodshed and
>> violence at the movies just as much as the supposedly "depraved" audiences they
>> decry --but they'll hide behind traditional, "ennobled" storytelling. That is,
>> they say they enjoy it, but only if it's "historically justified" violence,
>> which is nonsense.
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>Well, that is a nice commentary, but haven't offered any defense of
>it. Can you? Do you also believe there is also no difference between
>portrayal of a gang-rape and that of a married couple making love
>because they both show sex?

That's a flawed analogy, sicne niether the last Samuri nor Kill Bill
show loving, consensual violence.

A better analogy would be, is there no difference between the graphic
rape of a stranger, and the artistically filmed rape of a wife by her
husband?