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.
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xavier666@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoI 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.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
xavier666@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
He also does not “become a samurai”
Correct. That’s why I said symbolically.
but you never see the character on screen again
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.
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?