Watched "Last Samurai" last night - Yes, I know it's Tom Cruise sans 4111 etc, but is actually good. Makes a nice nod to Kurosawa without getting bogged (excuse the pun) down in it, and managed a hollywoodesqe ending without going OTT in that direction either. but that was *after* they did a rosebud.
huzzah!
and it had ponies.
kinda like a western in japan.
oh deadwood! oh firefly!
maybe it's because i largely missed out on the film-noir thing for the "honourable man in a dishonourable world" trope until it was too late (and no ponies, ever, in noir) but was suckled on westerns, and then westerns in space (star wars 4, 5 & 6, outlands, alien2).
then yesterday, i googled deadwood + feminism, and whatdya know?! but there's a call for papers.
hmmm.
am i up to it?
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