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At the north gate is a statue of Christopher Columbus in a rather dashing pose reminiscent of Errol Flynn in one of his swashbuckling films.
The latest version of the swashbuckling legend makes critics wax nostalgic for the era "when boyish adventure films still had their innocence" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). This time an aging Zorro (Anthony Hopkins) passes the mask to Antonio Banderas.
Because of the tremendous vogue of such images, collected and reworked by Edgar Degas and Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt and then adopted in our own popular culture, we recognize immediately the polymorphous personae of the floating world--the sumo wrestlers, the geisha and her admirers (see Kitagawa Utamaro, The Mosquito Net , circa 1797), and the swashbuckling samurai.
At its base is a swashbuckling statue by William Wetmore Storey of American Colonel Prescott, who gave the famous order: “Don’t fire ’til you see the whites of their eyes.”
Yet here was the New York Times ' lead reviewer, Janet Maslin, almost alone among major critics in showering praise: "[I]t sustains the gee-whiz spirit of the series and offers a swashbuckling extragalactic getaway ...