Jackson is rescued one night from a pair of thugs clearly planning to mug him by Sofia (Natasha Richardson), a White Russian émigré working as a taxi dancer and maybe a prostitute, though the film is reticent on this angle. Her Russian in-laws are played by the rest of the Redgrave gang. Vanessa (Richardson's real mother) is the old countess. Aunt Lynn plays Olga, Sofia's spiteful mother-in-law. (Her husband is dead.) Madeleine Potter - long a Merchant Ivory fave - is Greshenka, Sofia's sister-in-law and supposed "protector" of Sofia's young daughter Katya. This nest of vipers plans to escape to Hong Kong, taking Katya, who adores her mother, and abandoning Sofia because taxi-dancing, et al., has made her unacceptable to the snooty White Russian community. Jackson opens a nightclu...
... Ivory's taste and class elevated them above Hollywood's increasing vulgarity.) When the Japan...
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[...] many critics read the characterization of the city as a reflection of the period's economic history: the increasing globalization of the national economy with respect to the Pacific Rim, especially LA, and the widespread "Yellow Peril" fear of a Japanese corporate invasion. In history books, he's the kind of cop who used to call black men 'niggers.' This exchange establishes Bryant and Deckard as stock figures of twentieth-century Civil Rights narratives: the Southern redneck cop and the cynical but nonracist white one. [...] by 1992, the film has excised all of its direct references to black people despite its reliance on traditional African American themes.
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