Comment on Anon watches The Last Samurai

roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I found this comment while looking for the quote.

  The words samurai is considered the plural form. The movie is about Lord Katsumoto and his clan of samurai during the period in the transformation of Japan from a feudal society into a modern industrial power. Not exclusively about Tom Cruise’s character. Katsumoto felt that Japan was changing too rapidly and it’s losing its cultural values and traditions in the rush to become regional power.

  Still not interested in seeing a Tom Cruise movie, but it’s an interesting insight that goes past the normal knee jerk reaction.

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still not interested in seeing a Tom Cruise movie

    Cool dude alert

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    • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What has two thumbs and doesn’t like Tom Cruise?

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He’s a weird dude, but a decent actor. Credit where credit is due.

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      • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hate the guy, love the actor. He just makes mostly great movies.

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  • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh yeah, it’s absolutely a very interesting period in Japanese history and if Cruise’s character was used as a symbol of the fear of westernization of Japan post Meiji Restoration, that would be cool.

    But he was just there as a big name for box office draw, and probably as an excuse to ditch a lot of subtitles. If I’m inclined to be ungenerous, I have a few other suspicions as well.

    It’s kind of like Kundun vs. Seven Years in Tibet. But at least with the latter, it was based on a book written by the real life traveler.

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  • refalo@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The words samurai is considered the plural form

    That’s… not how Japanese works

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    • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      English likes to take “loan words” and ignore the original language’s conventions.

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      • refalo@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I said Japanese though, not English. “samurai” is both singular and plural in both languages

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      en.wiktionary.org/wiki/samurais

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      • refalo@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Japanese

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