• Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
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    6 个月前

    He was already retired from the military in the movie, he went over as a mercenary to train the Japanese how to use guns more effectively.

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          6 个月前

          We were originally talking about this “Keanu is half Japanese. Tom Cruise as the Last Samurai though…” You got off track.

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            6 个月前

            Yes, Keanu is half Japanese, so him playing a half Japanese character in a movie makes sense. Tom Cruise being associated with the last Samurai of the shogun era makes no sense, this is Chewbacca, Chewbacca is a wookie, why would he hang out on the planet Endor with a bunch of ewoks? It makes no sense.

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              6 个月前

              I’m also baffled by your ewoks and wookie analogy, can’t Chewbacca come visit endor to hangout with the ewoks? And why doesn’t it make sense?

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              So you’re saying is Americans shouldn’t have been in Japan at that time? I’m really struggling with you last samurai argument here. He’s a former American soldier hired to train japanese soldiers on modern warfare. He got captured and got close to his captor who happens to be the “last samurai”. I really don’t get how he doesn’t fit in the story the way Keanu playing a half Japanese half Caucasian because he is one.

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                6 个月前

                They both fit in the respective story line, that’s the point…

                Aside from the fact that Tom Cruise is one of leading members of the Scientology Cult, but that’s a completely different story.