• Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    1 year ago

    And even then, there were people who were uncomfortable with a narrative of some heroic white dude coming in to save the exotic natives. Just wasn’t a very popular opinion.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah but it was the other side of the spectrum. It weren’t right wing racist who were mad but SJWs who didn’t see the movie and don’t understand that the word Samurai in the title is plural not singular.

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        1 year ago

        Oh you’re saying that this is about right wingers who think the Last Samurai is okay (while Ass Creed isn’t).

        … That… makes sense. Huh. I hadn’t seen it that way.

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      1 year ago

      Lol as good as the production looked even as a white dude I kind of cracked up at Tommy in that role.

      The Last Shogun appears to have the same thing going but idk I havn’t watched it yet.

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        I thought so too in the beginning. But the English character in that series is more of a… Useful tool that gets used. He has no agency and he never realises it throughout the entire series.