That was the movie with Tom Cruise as the main actor, right master?

Well if it is the one with Tom Cruise as the lead actor. I saw bits and pieces of it when it was on TV.

yep, it was that one.

Ok. Just making sure, master. As I said above. I just got bits and peices of it when it was showing on TV in the past, due to flipping through channels.

Its worth checking out at the least

-nods- I intend to do so one day.

The movie itself isn't terrible, really, but it's that same semi-racist cliche that you see again and again.

White man unknowingly is enemy to humble race/sect/society or pre-industrial people. He gets captured by them and/or begrudgingly/mistakenly learns more about their culture, and develops sympathies with them, perhaps finds a love interest, and learns their ancient ways of combat and such. At the end, when they're fight the evil, ruthless military, the white guy proves to be the most badass one, even though he's dedicated less than a quarter of his life to what they've been doing for years and years.

There are few good movies that use this formula, like District Nine.

Yeah, the movie wasnt god-awful, but the white man presence tips the scale of what the main concept is. Something about non-asian actors starring in asian-based films just doesn't seem right 95% of the time. Side characters, fine. Antagonists, fine. But otherwise... its like trying to put a gay dick and a vag together. It just doesnt work and it simply shouldnt be.

It's been codified as a trope known simply as 'Mighty Whitey, and it's Dabs' definition to a T.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p.....n/MightyWhitey

OMFG

Ok Rathy I hate you for hating that. You no longer shall use a samuri sword if you dont like that movie

No one said I dont like it. I said I hate it. And I shall use my lovely katanas for the rest of my days! You wanna see a real samurai movie, watch The Hidden Blade

Someone mad about someone else's opinion! OHLAWDY WHAT NEXT?

*eats popcorn* =V

Well now we know that slayersarge has the inability to keep himself mature. I mean, when you made a "Stuff Rathy Hates - Halo", of course I disagreed and agreed at the same time. We've all got our own opinions and while I do agree with your constructive opinions on why one movie or game is bad compared to another, there's no need to unnecessarily make drama about it. It's just silly to do so~ :B
So, keep on putting your opinions out there Rathy! Haters may label you as a hater, but they're still proving to be less mature when it comes to who's the hater :V

I wish someone else would do this kinda thing too X3 Its so awesome and liberating! And full of sillyness! Look, I cut the background and revealed a purgatory behind it! Thats so LOL! The next one is gonna be righteousness o:

Also, he -might- be joking around, but I cant be sure X3; But your statement has been valid for other people indeed

I watched the movie, I found it tolerable, but one that I certainly wouldn't watch again, all due to the fact that the one glaring problem is the Mighty Whitey TVtropes character (As DMShade showed above).

Yes indeed. Ya know what people dont explore enough? Animals doing this stuff. Enough with your white man joins native tribe. Show me a dog becoming a ninja! And not an animated dog or a talking one. Just a regular dog. With a human companion too I suppose for the human interest factor and some dialogue.

I absolutely completely fucking agree. What is it with american cinema that they have to stick americans in every single historic battle and make them the heroes of the day? I mean seriously, get over yourself, Hollywood!!!

"YOU WILL LOVE AMERICA! YOU WILL BLEED AMERICA! YOU WILL CUM AMERICA! OR ELSE, AMERICA WILL FUCK YOU WITH ITS HUGE RED, WHITE AND BLUE DICK OF AMERICAN PRIIIIIIIDE!"

This is why other countries dont like us. We even stick americans into stuff that has nothing to do with us. Like blue pocahontas cat tribe battles or ancient Chinese myths.

And don't forget the big white, red and blue bombs and the american pride of having the most powerful military. They'll fuck you too if you mess with Amerika.

Well, I gotta say, obnoxious tourists with a patriotic streak a mile wide have something to do with it too :p But yeah. I saw a WWI movie about the debut of aricraft fighting, and somehow, two american farmboys ended up in the FRENCH army of all, and became the ace fighters, broke the hearts of dozens of pretty little french ladies, etc etc etc ad nauseum. It's just sickening.

Avatar wasn't so bad. The only thing missing was an actual story :p

Last airbender was just awful, plain and simple.

I liked it. :C

hehe thats fine that you liked it X3

I feel you man, Americans like to take credit for everything X3

Its why other countries are like. "ugh, god, here come the americans..." "YEAH, AMERICAN PARTEEEEH!!"

The movie was okay for me. Seemed like another "white guy gets stuck in another culture, who said white guy has to save from extinction from the people he once worked for" movie, only with an all-star cast and huge budget. And takes place in Japan.

I believe most of the film was shot in New Zealand. Seems everyone goes there for big budget movies. "uhh, hey, theres some Lord of the Ring props still over here! what should we do with 'em?"

The mighty whitey trope aside, the movie's plot was extrapolated from the real life role of one Jules Brunet.


From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Brunet

Arrival in Japan

Napoleon III sent a group of military advisors to Japan to help modernize the Shogun's army. Brunet was sent as an artillery instructor. The mission arrived in early 1867, and trained the Shogun's troops for about a year.

Then in 1868, the Shogun was overthrown in the Boshin War, and Emperor Meiji was nominally restored to full power. The French military mission was then ordered to leave Japan by Imperial decree.
The French military mission before its departure to Japan. Jules Brunet is seated in front, second from right (1866).

However, Brunet chose to remain. He resigned from the French army, and left for the north of Japan with the remains of the Shogunate's armies in the hope of staging a counter-attack. In a letter to Napoleon III, Brunet explained the plan of the Alliance, as well as his role in it:

"A revolution is forcing the Military Mission to return to France. Alone I stay, alone I wish to continue, under new conditions: the results obtained by the Mission, together with the Party of the North, which is the party favorable to France in Japan. Soon a reaction will take place, and the Daimyos of the North have offered me to be its soul. I have accepted, because with the help of one thousand Japanese officers and non-commissioned officers, our students, I can direct the 50,000 men of the Confederation."
— Jules Brunet, Letter to Napoleon III.[1]

(yes, they made it about an american to appeal to american audiences, I concede that point)
But frankly, ya'll bein pretty racist. Especially coming from an american who uses katanas themselves.
Furthermore there was a dutch merchant iirc, who back in the day was made an honorary japanese citizen by the emporer and given a frigging fieifdom and the right to wear the daisho.

Frankly the whole movie because way less offensive if you remember that japanese has like crazy amount of mass nouns. So they don't mean that tom cruise himself was the exact last samurai, but it was a story about the last groups of samurai.

Its not the fact that its a white man starring in the movie, its the fact that there are so many white men starring in movies that probably shouldnt focus so heavily on the white man and make him the ultimate warrior of whatever society he's joined. And yes, I know he wasnt the last samurai.

And why is it always men? Cant women ditch society and join another one and become bad-assery in a short time period thats inconceivably too short?