<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/94046d20-4612-441f-a8e3-e73becaff825/46160BA8-6309-4528-82F4-A8534EFD9ADD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.american.com/archive/2007/december-12-07/the-good-the-bad-and-the-japanese" href="http://www.american.com/archive/2007/december-12-07/the-good-the-bad-and-the-japanese" style="font-size: 11px;">www.american.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.american.com/archive/2007/december-12-07/the-good-the-bad-and-the-japanese"><DIV class="documentDescription">The brilliant director Akira Kurosawa, of ‘Seven Samurai’ fame, helped bring a new kind of hero to the American movie screen, writes JAMES BOWMAN. Not so much film noir as film gris.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.american.com/archive/2007/december-12-07/the-good-the-bad-and-the-japanese">C<SPAN>lint Eastwood, an icon of American heroism recognized throughout the world, made a movie last year about one of the best-known battles of World War II, a movie that lacked both a hero and so much as a glance in the direction of what was being fought over. It was a movie about war seen only through the eyes of its victims. <EM>Flags of Our Fathers </EM>was no anomaly, but a sign of our cultural times and one that has been a long time in coming. Its victim-heroes have become almost as much of a cliché as the idea that only primitive and uneducated people think in terms of wrong and right, black and white, bad guys and good guys</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.american.com/archive/2007/december-12-07/the-good-the-bad-and-the-japanese">How did this change occur? Most of humankind through most of history has happily lived in a black-and-white, good-and-evil world. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/46160BA8-6309-4528-82F4-A8534EFD9ADD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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