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Article: The revisionist western goes east in 'Samurai'.(SHOW)(ON THE EDGE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 5, 2003
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Byline: Scott Galupo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - Hollywood's perennial punching bags, dead white men, come in for a one-sided pummeling in "The Last Samurai," an otherwise beautifully staged historical drama from director Edward Zwick, who pummeled them before in "Glory" and "Legends of the Fall."
Exquisitely attentive to modern sensibilities, "Samurai," opening today in area theaters, is a two-pronged attack on DWM, fingering their treatment of both American Indians and the Japanese.
Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is a Civil War veteran who, when we first meet him, is in a state of drunken disillusionment over his country's ...