Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year
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There is a lot of highly critical discourse around the Last Samurai. Not current, because it's not a current movie, but saying that it's "okay" suggests you haven't looked for criticism.
Also, weary.
Yup, Last Samourai is 22 years old. Back then a lot of social issues have not been widely discussed.
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That's some grade A vintage racism right there.
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Yup, Last Samourai is 22 years old. Back then a lot of social issues have not been widely discussed.
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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Headline makes it sound Uni posted this, but it doesn‘t look like it.
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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.
Save the natives?
Doesn’t the movie end with them all dying?
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Save the natives?
Doesn’t the movie end with them all dying?
That's presumably the beginnings of an awareness of why that narrative is problematic. And also of the importance of historic accuracy. His role in the narrative was that of a saviour though.
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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.
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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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.
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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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.
It was the main reason why I never ended up watching that film.
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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.
Lol as good as the production looked even as a white dude I kind of cracked up at Tommy in that role.
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Game seems cool, but it requires a download to play. They don't meet my basic requirements for a game I'd even consider buying.
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Yup, Last Samourai is 22 years old. Back then a lot of social issues have not been widely discussed.
I recall quite a bit of people taking issue with it. Goes back further with carradine in kung fu. Plenty didn't but same with assasins creed.
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It's an actor ACTING as someone else that's the whole point of ACTING. People need to stop with this bullshit.
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It's an actor ACTING as someone else that's the whole point of ACTING. People need to stop with this bullshit.
How do you act like you have black skin, for instance?
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Lol as good as the production looked even as a white dude I kind of cracked up at Tommy in that role.
I'm not sure if The Last Shogun is something different, but if you're referring to the Shogun series recently adapted by FX, I can say having watched it that it features a main character who fancies himself a superior white savior, but ultimately leads to realizing how completely out of his depth he is.
But it's like the Memoir of a Geisha problem: since the original work was written by a white dude anyways, how much value does it have as a cultural work?
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How do you act like you have black skin, for instance?
By taking your bike
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Game seems cool, but it requires a download to play. They don't meet my basic requirements for a game I'd even consider buying.
"doesn't have to be downloaded" is a basic requirement of a game for you in 2025?
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How do you act like you have black skin, for instance?
How do you act as anyone else ever? Unless you are a genetic clone of the person you must not be allowed to act!
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I learnt the trope of the "white Savior" thanks to last samurai, and that was eons ago.
This is not a case of double standards, it's plain racism and influencer grifting.
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Meme of Giancarlo Esposito / Gus adjusting his tie with the caption "You won't buy Assassin's Creed Shadows because you're racist, I won't buy it because Ubisoft games are shit. We're not the same"
