The Last Samurai (2003) 7 pages
The Last Samurai — Index
The wiki for Edward Zwick's The Last Samurai (2003). Hub: The Last Samurai (2003).
Plot
- Plot Structure (The Last Samurai) — the film mapped through the Two Approaches framework
Cast
- (to be added)
Production
- (to be added)
Themes
- Befuddled by the Other — the trope of a protagonist encountering a foreign culture's value, befuddling over it, and adopting it (with comparisons to Dances with Wolves, Lawrence of Arabia, The Karate Kid, Witness, Avatar, Local Hero)
Analysis
- Plot Structure (The Last Samurai) — Two Approaches structural map
- Backbeats (The Last Samurai) — the film in numbered beats
- The Shiroyama Cease-Fire Climax (The Last Samurai) — the strict-mission-test climax page: the artillery captain's cease-fire and the Imperial line bowing at b41a