Empire Of The Sun Basie And Jamie Relationship

The 1987 film, Empire of the Sun directed by Steven Spielberg, was a very well put together film in a way that everything was put together in the end of the film. Spielberg connected a lot of things that viewers saw in the beginning of the film to what viewers saw in the end of the film. In this film there is a major relationship between some sort of a caretaker model and a young child in need of care. This relationship develops between Basie and Jamie. Throughout the film, I feel that Basie was more identifiable as using Jamie instead of mentoring Jamie.
One example from the film showing that Basie was just using Jamie was when Basie and Frank tried to sell Jamie so they could make money off of him. When Basie and Frank were unable to sell Jamie, they were going to …show more content…
Basie wants Jamie to lay all of the snares for catching pheasants, so he makes a deal with Jamie. If Jamie can lay all of the snares in the marsh area that is just outside of the fence of the camp they are in, Jamie can move into the American dorm with Basie and Basie will take Jamie along when the time comes to escape the camp. When I heard Basie’s deal, I thought that it was pretty fair and that it was easy if all he had to do was lay the snares without getting caught, but when I thought about what Basie and the other people in the American dorm were talking about a little earlier on in the film, I realized that again, Basie was using Jamie. It seems like Basie was trying to kill Jamie now because he didn’t actually see pheasants and want Jamie to lay the snares for Thanksgiving, he wanted to know if there were any mines in the marsh so he could plan his escape route. Jamie risked his life for Basie and in reality all Basie wants is to test the marsh for mines. Basie has betrayed Jamie without Jamie even