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meganbmooreSooo...Kenneth Branagh's 2006 adaptation of As You Like It is about peaceful, intellectual white Europeans in 19th century Japan, learning all about the exotic natives and their exotic culture. *Summary of opening text.*
In the opening scene, the peaceful white people are having a solemn party when scary, violent samurai attack, beat up an old dude (we get two clips of this, to make sure we don't miss the scary samurai beating up a helpless old man), and throw them out to wander the cold forest like the poor, abused, helpless souls they are.
Sigh.
ETA: But then I turned on Life, and the ep. has Christina Hendricks and Victoria Pratt, so it wasn't a total Netflix Failure day.
In the opening scene, the peaceful white people are having a solemn party when scary, violent samurai attack, beat up an old dude (we get two clips of this, to make sure we don't miss the scary samurai beating up a helpless old man), and throw them out to wander the cold forest like the poor, abused, helpless souls they are.
Sigh.