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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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    Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    He is part of a cult that kills people. Its fine not to support him based on that
    
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    Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    “Allll riggghhhhhhtyy than”
    
    That’s the guy right?
    
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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
    What are you arguing about? The statement I quoted said that “samurai” is plural. Nothing that you said has contradicted that. In fact, you’re only agreeing with it with this last statement. Doesn’t matter that it didn’t mention if it can be used as singular as it’s not relevant.
    
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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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