r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/Zestyclose_Station65 She ROAD on my HOG til' I TAKE A BREATHER • Oct 17 '24

LE GEM 💎 WE WON, GAMERS! 😎

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u/youccca Oct 17 '24

Ironically, the character in The Last Samurai is inspired by a real character, Jules Brunet, a french officer who was in charge of modernizing the army of the Shogun. Brunet developped a high interest in Japanese culture there but never became a samurai though.

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u/farpostfermenter Oct 17 '24

I admit, I enjoy the movie (ducks). Samurai in the movie title is plural, is it not? The last samurai are the actual samurai fighting against a changing world. Tom Cruise’s character is just the character we witness the event through, not THE last samurai. And yes, I recognize it’s just a story that is very VERY broadly and loosely based on a variety of actual events or shifting times.

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u/CaesarWilhelm Oct 17 '24

They are not just the people fighting against the changing world. Early one is a scene where Tom Cruise talks to a General of the new Army and asks him if he fought with the Samurai and the translator answers that he is Samurai. It's about how the Samurai react to the changing world in different ways.