The Last SamuraiThink for a second about your friends, family, and loved ones. Think about the luxuries you have and how you came to love them. Don't you feel blessed and lucky to be who you are? Now imagine being thrown into enemy territory, a lonely and dangerous place with nothing. To survive, you must communicate with the enemy and learn to live their way – the complete opposite culture that you hate. In the film The Last Samurai, the author plays a civil war veteran, Captain Algren, commander and trainer of the new, technologically advanced Japanese army. His task is to defeat the rebellion of the remaining samurai in Japan. After Algren is captured, he is taken to their village as an information tool. He begins to learn their way of life and finds himself caught in two situations. As Algren misses his old way of life, he tends to like the way of the samurai, as well as that of women. The captain has now become the enemy he originally wanted to kill. This story presents the most subtle sense of the search for true identity and true communication, through verbal and non-verbal expression. It shows how a person's identity and self-concept can be influenced by culture, gender, age and even stereotypes. As the world changed dramatically in the 19th century, technology was new and even new to warfare. His commander and the Japanese consulate staff asked Captain Algren to train the Japanese army. New technology will destroy the samurai and make the samurai method obsolete. He simply agrees to do it with money as his sole objective. Initially, he doesn't care about the samurai, the Japanese, or his commander's intentions. In this scene, Algren disrespects his commanding officer and the Japanese consulate through his nonverbal communication. His stares, his teeth sucking, his unnecessary drinking, and his dry sarcasm are the bodily orientations that show his disinterest (226). The consulate speaks in Japanese to its secretary about the rudeness of the Americans, which speaks for the entire country. The stereotype they develop is based on Algren's first impression: they have exaggerated generalizations that become associated with a categorization system; the Americans (96). A scientific review shows that in a test of six studies, stereotype acceptance was more associated with implicit and explicit stereotypes of particular groups (Carter 1103). Groups such as