We're here to have a great conversation. Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcasting crew: Ian, Ethan, and Megan, (Liam and Georgia are searching for the perfect cherry blossom) as they head to Japan to see the meeting of the ancient and the modern in the Tom Cruise epic, The Last Samurai brought to us BFF of the BFE, Hermes Auslander. We're dressing up in our finest red armour in our 196th episode as we discuss:
- If this film is just a remixed Dances With Wolves
Where Ian recognised the American villain of the piece fromWhether Braveheart perfected the epic battle scene and if it's too disorientating for modern audiencesIf this film goes a little too far down the white saviour tropeIan confesses to a big mistake he made in regards to people's availability for this filmHermes joins us and presents a staunch counter-argument to Ian. It's not Whiplash levels of conflict but it's the closest thing sinceWhether or not The Last Samurai is the Best Film EverBecome a Patron of this podcast and support the BFE at https://www.patreon.com/BFE
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- Juleen from It Goes Down In The PM
Hermes AuslanderJames DeGuzmanLina OberholzerEnsign Ian DaviesChris Pedersen Duane Smith (Duane Smith!)Randal SilvaThe YeetmeisterNate The GreatRev BruceCheezy (with a fish on a bike)Andy DicksonHolly CallenRichardRyan KuketzDirk DigglerShai BergerfroindStew from the Stew World Order podcastNorfolk DomAJ from Nova ScotiaCatch more from Hermes in his pod "The Scuttlebutt Podcast" at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-scuttlebutt-podcast/id1503504933
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