Save the natives?
Doesn’t the movie end with them all dying?
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Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 weeks agoAnd even then, there were people who were uncomfortable with a narrative of some heroic white dude coming in to save the exotic natives. Just wasn’t a very popular opinion.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 weeks ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
That’s presumably the beginnings of an awareness of why that narrative is problematic. And also of the importance of historic accuracy. His role in the narrative was that of a saviour though.
Melonpoly@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It was the main reason why I never ended up watching that film.
Flemmy@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Lol as good as the production looked even as a white dude I kind of cracked up at Tommy in that role.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m not sure if The Last Shogun is something different, but if you’re referring to the Shogun series recently adapted by FX, I can say having watched it that it features a main character who fancies himself a superior white savior, but ultimately leads to realizing how completely out of his depth he is.
But it’s like the Memoir of a Geisha problem: since the original work was written by a white dude anyways, how much value does it have as a cultural work?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I thought so too in the beginning. But the English character in that series is more of a… Useful tool that gets used. He has no agency and he never realises it throughout the entire series.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah but it was the other side of the spectrum. It weren’t right wing racist who were mad but SJWs who didn’t see the movie and don’t understand that the word Samurai in the title is plural not singular.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Oh you’re saying that this is about right wingers who think the Last Samurai is okay (while Ass Creed isn’t).
… That… makes sense. Huh. I hadn’t seen it that way.