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circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
The fun thing about The Last Samurai is that the title doesn’t refer to Tom Cruise. He does not play a samurai in the film. He plays an American officer.
He hangs with a group of samurai, who are collectively the last of their kind.
That said, plenty of people complained about it in its day.
xavier666@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I might be terribly incorrect.
But i remember that Tom Cruise’s character switches sides in the movie after spending time with the Samurai (He was captured by them). He trains under them and becomes a Samurai. In the end, they fight against the (British?) and lose due to a gattling gun. All the Samurai die except for Tom’s character. So symbolically, Tom is the Last Samurai.
Newsteinleo@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Yes, it’s a classic “white savior” trope.
johnnyb@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
he die didn’t save shit though :D
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
What did he save?
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
It is implied that Tom Cruise dies at the end. I think the confusion comes from a voice over, but you never see the character on screen again.
He also does not “become a samurai”. He fights alongside them, but at no point do they call him a samurai.
xavier666@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Correct. That’s why I said symbolically.
I maybe incorrect but towards the end of the movie, the Emperor asks how Katsumoto died, to which Tom Cruise replies “I’ll tell you how he lived”. So he was alive?
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Hm, I may need to rewatch it myself. That also doesn’t match what the link above suggests about interpreting the ending.