Also, as this excellent Atlantic piece points out, there's a slightly uneasy "white saviour" theme throughout, best exemplified by a genuinely ghastly scene where the family tell the slaves that they're letting them go, everybody starts hugging and, quick as a flash, one of the freed women starts singing Amazing Grace.
If one donates to "save" an LGBTI person in Africa one is granted a status recognition originally titled as "ultimate saviour".
The big questions we are asking now are very disturbing, but the press is our greatest saviour at the moment".
Moyles, who billed himself as the "saviour of Radio 1" before he quit as presenter of the breakfast show in 2012, claimed to have run up £1m of losses selling £3,731 worth of used cars.
At best they are palliative and patronising, at worst they reinforce the victimhood of Africans and the saviour status of westerners.
Except this time Rudd is cast as the saviour, rather than the sinner.
Needless to say, Timor barely features in the media anymore – it's a historical footnote with a story that ends with Canberra as the saviour of the nation in 1999, when rampaging Indonesian thugs were destroying the capital, Dili.
Fernandes shows that it's a yarn that isn't based on fact in his compelling 2004 book, Reluctant Saviour.
This point was not lost on the late Steve Jobs, the co-founder, saviour and high priest of Apple.
Pink Floyd, presumed lost in action following the death of Richard Wright in 2008, will re-emerge with their cosmic grandeur; Adele – saviour of the music industry with her last album – will excite both the record-buying public and the executives, if she can get her album out before Christmas.
At one of the company's rare meetings with Wall Street analysts recently, Exxon executives boasted it had a serious call from investment bankers acting on behalf of distressed oil companies looking for a saviour.
