Analysis of Representations of tropical Asia, Its Peoples and Its
William Wyler is arguably one of the best film makers of the 20th century as evidenced in the film The Letter (1940) set in the plantations of the Orient. Among the greatest highlights of the movie are the various representations of tropical Asia, its people and the environment as depicted in this movie in totality (Bazin 34). Considering the time when it was set, it is no doubt that all these have to point back to the happenings of the time; colonialism at its peak. The participants are of different nationalities more so, the Britons and the natives of ...
