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...heroic style. Here is Alexander the Great, who smashed the Persian Empire and led his devoted Macedonian phalanxes all the way to India. A fearless warrior, he was wounded eight times before succumbing to a fever...
...women, which is distinct from the Western perspective. Though Gun is set up to be a typical, macho western cowboy hero, he is no Pygmalion. The window Tampopo is neither a statue-like work of art nor an Adam's rib. She is closer to the archetypal woman warrior, strong and in control of her own destiny. The gourmands who are supposed to teach her cannot directly show her how to cook; they don't give her the right recipes. They only help her to experiment on her own to find the right soup, to add the right vegetables...
...American, would be a cultural Natty Bumppo; when he went to Rome as a young man and was shown the Apollo Belvedere, the first nude sculpture he had ever seen, he endeared himself to connoisseurs by exclaiming, "My God, how like it is to a young Mohawk warrior!" Thus the white noble savage met the antique ideal, and West's name as a prodigy was made...
...stereotypical Southern sheriff (a role he played in the movie of Deliverance), he strummed a guitar, partied hard and shot at deer with a bow and arrow. His collection of poems, Buckdancer's Choice, won a 1966 National Book Award, but he was also a member of the warrior class, having flown Black Widow night fighters against the Japanese in the South Pacific...
...action revels in the excitement of battle, sex, murder and hatred, while acknowledging the absurdity of the whole thing. "We're not fighting for freedom," the rugged warrior declares. "If there's one word that I had to say to sum up what I'm fighting for, it's poon tang," he says...