averyterrible:

kontextmaschine:

So the American cynic-adventurer Indiana Jones beats the Nazi epic-mythologist by absorbing the legacy religiosity of his imperialist-academic patriarch

That’s Last Crusade

Up there with Sabin/Edgar for childhood things I didn’t recognize were obviously about mythologizing the British Empire -> USA transition

Sabin/Edgar feels like a stretch, given the Japanese origins of the text, but within the dramaturgical tradition of the translation admittedly

I mean the “oh, the noble still-feudal samurai Cyan was a loyal ally to the Kaiser and his steampunk empire but while he wasn’t looking this evil clown chancellor took over, and somehow his land was devastated through no fault of his own” doesn’t strike you as a WWII take?