https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Brunet >Jules Brunet (2 January 1838 – 12 August 1911) was a French military officer who served the Tokugawa shogunate during the Boshin War in Japan. Originally sent to Japan as an artillery instructor with the French military mission of 1867, he refused to leave the country after the shōgun was defeated, and played a leading role in the separatist Republic of Ezo and its fight against forces of the Meiji Restoration. After the rebellion's defeat he returned to France, fought in the Franco-Prussian War, and later reached the rank of general of division and worked for the Ministry of War.
Japanese men have been feminized to the point of non-existence. Some say its a worse fate than what they did to germans. But the German punishment is just getting started
Based. I didn't see this movie get discussed here a lot, or maybe I'm blind. I know the main actor is not Cinemaphile's cup of tea, but I think he did good in this movie. Visuals and music are where this movie shines in my opinion. 9/10 music and 9/10 visuals. I know its not historically accurate but I really enjoyed this movie. It reminded me of movies like Gladiator and Braveheart, but it feels different.
I generally like movies starring Tom Cruise, but this was shit. Am I to believe a super honorrabru society would just allow this one foreigner (white too) to plow the head samurai's best man's wife, wear his armor and become best pals with him?
I swear it feels like I’ve spent my whole life telling people how great that movie is but no one ever wants to watch it. I don’t know if it’s just a Tom Cruise thing because the same thing happens with War of the Worlds
These are my actual, honest criticisms as to why I didn't like it:
I found it overly dramatic, and also insincere. Felt like it was, more than anything, trying to make me feel bad for Tom Cruise's character rather than for the actual samurai's impending demise. The fact that he learns the art of the samurai in a matter of months (something they spend years perfecting) well enough to not only be invited to fight alongside the higher ranks, but to go as far as wearing the armor of one of the head samurai's most trusted warriors to battle, felt stupid. Echoes of the noble savage trope. The woman cucking her dead husbando for Cruise felt really inorganic, and everyone just going along with it with no apparent qualms whatsoever made it feel as more of a personal fantasy of Tom's character than what would've actually happened.
Well the whole premise is incinsie. The Samurai are portrayed like native americans being oppressed and genocided when they were really the ex-ruling class rebelling against the new one because they wanted their special privileges back like being professional NEETs and being able to kill anyone they want for "dishonoring" them. They also upgraded to modern weapons and weren't running around in full Samurai armor at this point.
>They also upgraded to modern weapons and weren't running around in full Samurai armor at this point.
but I'll concede that the shot of the first time Cruise faces them and their silhouettes appear in full samurai armor and are charging towards the camera is kino
>WYPEEEPO BE GOING PLACES AND DOIN SHIT BE RACIST N SHEIT!
Meanwhile in real life:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_government_advisors_in_Meiji_Japan
>Japan gets colonized >leans into it >becomes regional power >rest of the world gets colonized >fights it tooth and nail >becomes poor backwater
What lesson did we learn today, children?
Japan was never successfully colonized until after WWII. Foreigners were restricted to special areas of Japan only. Those advisors were given special permissions to travel the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Samurai >The character of Algren was influenced by Jules Brunet, a French Imperial Guard officer who fought alongside Enomoto Takeaki in the earlier Boshin War; Ernest Mason Satow and Algernon Mitford, British diplomats during the Meiji restoration who were involved in the Satsuma rebellion; and, to a lesser extent, by Frederick Townsend Ward, an American mercenary who helped Westernize the Chinese army
>WHYPEEEEPO BE IN PLACES AN SHEEEIT DIS DERE BE RAYYYYYS >NUUUU HUUUH WHYPEEPO DON GON TO PLACES N SHEIT THEY BE ON BOATS AND SHEIT
>solid historical
>white man becomes the last samurai
>the last samurai
We have gone over this a million times. He was only honorary samurai. Bushido saved Algren from certain suicide.
white saviour cope, tom cruise shouldnt be in the movie. period.
>white man: *exists near a foreigner*
>foreigner: I AM OPPRESSED!!!!!11111
Tom Cruise is the foreigner in Japan, though.
How can he be a "white savior" when he doesn't save anything?
Also, his character was a real guy in real history and officially a samurai.
yeah but he's like white and like he's not a bad guy??? and he helps the japanese??? so that's like super problematic sweaty, that's a yikes from me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Brunet
>Jules Brunet (2 January 1838 – 12 August 1911) was a French military officer who served the Tokugawa shogunate during the Boshin War in Japan. Originally sent to Japan as an artillery instructor with the French military mission of 1867, he refused to leave the country after the shōgun was defeated, and played a leading role in the separatist Republic of Ezo and its fight against forces of the Meiji Restoration. After the rebellion's defeat he returned to France, fought in the Franco-Prussian War, and later reached the rank of general of division and worked for the Ministry of War.
lol, lmao
対処
Stupid movie.
Shut up, nerd.
He's not literally the last samurai, it's a hyperbole.
Samurai as in pural
Tom Cruise is not the last samurai.
Its the Jap guy he helps commit Sudoku, that's the last samurai.
Japanese men have been feminized to the point of non-existence. Some say its a worse fate than what they did to germans. But the German punishment is just getting started
If anything the French should be more upset about this movie because the guy Tom Cruise was very loosely based on was French and not a mutt.
The King is pretty okay.
Based. I didn't see this movie get discussed here a lot, or maybe I'm blind. I know the main actor is not Cinemaphile's cup of tea, but I think he did good in this movie. Visuals and music are where this movie shines in my opinion. 9/10 music and 9/10 visuals. I know its not historically accurate but I really enjoyed this movie. It reminded me of movies like Gladiator and Braveheart, but it feels different.
it's dumb weeb shit
i fricking hate you weebs so much
I wanna see you attempt to make a legitimate critique of this movie.
he just did though
He literally didn't, though. You should consider killing yourself, though.
THOUGH
I generally like movies starring Tom Cruise, but this was shit. Am I to believe a super honorrabru society would just allow this one foreigner (white too) to plow the head samurai's best man's wife, wear his armor and become best pals with him?
Jews
capitalism
I swear it feels like I’ve spent my whole life telling people how great that movie is but no one ever wants to watch it. I don’t know if it’s just a Tom Cruise thing because the same thing happens with War of the Worlds
These are my actual, honest criticisms as to why I didn't like it:
I found it overly dramatic, and also insincere. Felt like it was, more than anything, trying to make me feel bad for Tom Cruise's character rather than for the actual samurai's impending demise. The fact that he learns the art of the samurai in a matter of months (something they spend years perfecting) well enough to not only be invited to fight alongside the higher ranks, but to go as far as wearing the armor of one of the head samurai's most trusted warriors to battle, felt stupid. Echoes of the noble savage trope. The woman cucking her dead husbando for Cruise felt really inorganic, and everyone just going along with it with no apparent qualms whatsoever made it feel as more of a personal fantasy of Tom's character than what would've actually happened.
Well the whole premise is incinsie. The Samurai are portrayed like native americans being oppressed and genocided when they were really the ex-ruling class rebelling against the new one because they wanted their special privileges back like being professional NEETs and being able to kill anyone they want for "dishonoring" them. They also upgraded to modern weapons and weren't running around in full Samurai armor at this point.
Yeah. That aspect of it was cringe.
>They also upgraded to modern weapons and weren't running around in full Samurai armor at this point.
but I'll concede that the shot of the first time Cruise faces them and their silhouettes appear in full samurai armor and are charging towards the camera is kino
>WYPEEEPO BE GOING PLACES AND DOIN SHIT BE RACIST N SHEIT!
Meanwhile in real life:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_government_advisors_in_Meiji_Japan
>Japan gets colonized
>leans into it
>becomes regional power
>rest of the world gets colonized
>fights it tooth and nail
>becomes poor backwater
What lesson did we learn today, children?
Japan was never successfully colonized until after WWII. Foreigners were restricted to special areas of Japan only. Those advisors were given special permissions to travel the country.
They colonized themselves then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Samurai
>The character of Algren was influenced by Jules Brunet, a French Imperial Guard officer who fought alongside Enomoto Takeaki in the earlier Boshin War; Ernest Mason Satow and Algernon Mitford, British diplomats during the Meiji restoration who were involved in the Satsuma rebellion; and, to a lesser extent, by Frederick Townsend Ward, an American mercenary who helped Westernize the Chinese army
>WHYPEEEEPO BE IN PLACES AN SHEEEIT DIS DERE BE RAYYYYYS
>NUUUU HUUUH WHYPEEPO DON GON TO PLACES N SHEIT THEY BE ON BOATS AND SHEIT
I didnt like this movie because of Tom Cruise acting and the final emperor scene.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Brunet
They make them occasionally. I did not like 1917 or Dunkirk but they exist, and the All Quiet on the Western Front remake is a more recent example.
>historical movie
>"The samurai don't use guns."
>meanwhile in actual post Dutch Japanese history
Damn, came here hoping someone posted Steve's thoughts
>autists take everything literal
>can't come to terms with the fact that he last samurai isn't meant literally tom cruise is last sumurai
be me
laugh in ESL
>tell me how he died?
>I will tell you how he lived
Movie is pure kino and always gets me a little choked up.
kinda gay