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A 5 page research paper/analysis of 2 films. The Last Samurai (2003, directed by Edward Zwick) is the quintessential action adventure film with sufficient battle scenes to interest a male audience. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, directed by Blake Edwards) is a romantic comedy that focuses on a love story, and is therefore appealing to women. The writer argues that underlying both films are narratives that are similar in that their protagonists, Nathan in Samurai and Holly in Tiffany's, are trying to escape the pain of their past and find a new life. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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at Tiffanys (1961, directed by Blake Edwards) is a romantic comedy that focuses on a love story, and is therefore appealing to women. However, underlying both films are narratives that
are similar in that their protagonists, Nathan in Samurai and Holly in Tiffanys, are trying to escape the pain of their past and find a new life. In Tiffanys, Holly
Golightly, the former Lulamae Barnes of Tulip, Texas, has recreated herself as a New York sophisticate who lives from one party to the next and earns her living as a
sort of quasi-call girl, as she asks her numerous escorts for "powder-room money" (Breakfast at Tiffanys). She also gets money for ferrying messages to and from Sally Tomato, a narcotic
ring gangster, without any having any idea what the messages mean. Holly becomes friends with Paul Varjak, a young would-be writer, whom Holy calls "Fred" because he reminds her of
her brother. Paul is a "kept" man as a rich older woman leaves money on the night stand in Pauls apartment before going home to her husband. Hollys background
comes out slowly in the film. In the beginning, she seems as free and wild as a bird, but the narrative reveals that beneath this exterior, Holly is in psychic
pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a horse doctor, who, in one scene tries
to persuade Holly to return to Texas. While Holly does not want to return to Texas and her former identity, she also does not want to commit to a relationship
with Paul. The film pictures Holly and Paul interacting and falling in love. They seek out a copy of Pauls book, have a Crackerjack ring engraved at Tiffanys, and
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