[Originally, the film was intended to be directed by Jean-Luc Godard or Francois Truffaut, who opted out and madeFahrenheit 451 (1966)instead.When Jamie overheard that Rachel was upset over the changed plans, she expressed hurt feelings of rejection.[The real blacks in the film only played in minor roles.]Its climactic finale, the suppression of the black hreat to white society by the glorious Ku Klux Klan, helped to assuage some of America's sexual fears about the rise of defiant, strong (and sexual) black men and the repeal of laws forbidding intermarriage.Hannibal was instructed in martial arts, as she told him: "You must be ready for anything." In the local, open-air market, when a fat and rude butcher named Paul Momund crudely remarked at Lady Murasaki: "Hey,japonaise.An inferior, darker, more violent, and relentlessly-active remake that paid homage toGunga Din (1939).