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DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
However, I wasn't so much looking for the samurai
> influences in American
> film, but in print fiction, either translations
of
> the source material
> or its adoption in western hardboiled.
For
> instance, I know I have read
> books where the heroes and/or anti-heroes
are
> explicitly placed without
> the samurai/bushido code/tradition, but I
can't
> remember which. Does
> Crais refer to this in regard to Joe Pike in
the
> Elvis Cole books? I
> seem to remember a literary assassin placing
himself
> in this line, like
> the character in the movie Ghost Dog (which owes
a
> hell of a lot to
> samurai and yakuza films, including the shot
through
> a drain pipe hit
> taken from the aforementioned Branded to
Kill).
>
> Mark
>
>
Vachss is obviously influenced by something along these
lines: consider the mute sidekick of Burke's or the
protagonist of SHELLA.
doug
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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