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...Called Life’ there was an unreliable narrator. She wasn’t necessarily giving the most accurate portrayal of her experience, and that was part of the point. But in the case of The Last Samurai and in others like Glory, it was an epistolary age,” Zwick says. “People did write their thoughts; they kept journals. Sixty percent of the West Point class of 1854 published journals, nonfiction accounts of what they had done. I felt that this was in keeping with the character and the time...
Faithfully portraying the lives and events that inspire his historical epics is crucial to Zwick, who framed Samurai around the life of the legendary warrior Saigo Takamori. His reverence for historical fiction stems from his attempt to recover the wonder of past events...
Zwick believes that choosing to portray the past through the eyes of an outsider, as is done in both The Last Samurai and Glory—in which the white protagonists become the minority—serves as a useful method of underscoring the contradictions of the time...
...often contradicted by some of the behaviors that we see around him. I think it lends an opportunity for humor and for a multiplicity of shadings that wouldn’t otherwise be there,” Zwick says. He adds that, in the case of The Last Samurai, relying on the white American Cruise as narrator serves to alleviate problems of language...
...Bill is a thoughtful and beautiful homage to classic themes and styles while remaining the most fun and exciting film of the year. Within the film, one can see hints of all of Tarantino’s influences and tastes—spaghetti westerns, Hong Kong kung fu, Japanese samurai, anime—but all are wonderfully adapted to fit into the unique Tarantino vision...