The Last Samurai (YouTube Early Access)
Added 2024-07-10 04:59:39 +0000 UTCHere is the YouTube Early Access edit of The Last Samurai!!
Tom Cruise plays Capt. Nathan Algren, an American military officer who is hired to train Japan's army in modern warfare. As the Japanese government attempts to eradicate the Samurai and westernize the country, Algren finds himself being drawn to the Samurai way of life.
With wonderful dialogue and beautiful cinematography, this film captured the struggles Nathan Algren faced as a soldier coping with his past and trying to find a sense of honor in his life.
What an epic movie! Thanks for watching it with me!!
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I've heard Shogun is a great show!!
Jacqueline
2024-07-11 11:45:36 +0000 UTCIf the age of the Samuai in Japan interests you, Dearest Jax, I can NOT recommend’Shogun’ highly enough. To call it sweeping and epic and ALL the feels doesn’t adequately capture it, in my opinion. The lead is next level brilliant. ‘Koji’ from JW4 is even better than he was in that.
Lamar Smith
2024-07-10 07:08:29 +0000 UTCI forgot, tie-in w/WWII museum…. I went when the Pacific wing opened. Fabulous. I’m a History guy, Military History even more so, so I was HOME. Strolled down the propaganda aisle, fabulous collection of war-time printed propaganda… from BOTH sides, Japanese & American….. See, women see that iconic ‘Rosie the Riveter’ “We Can Do It!” P!NK even used it one of her videos. Well, that was powerful stuff for ‘Rosie’ and EVERY woman! YYAASSSS QUEEEENNN!!! I’m there with you! It was Madison Avenue, Government paid for propaganda…..and I have NO problem with that! A government investing a dime into making its citizens feel WORSE about a war, especially that one, deserves to lose. What was interesting to me, though, was that in Japanese iconography against us AND in our iconography against them, we BOTH, absent ALL collaboration, settled on our opponent in the war displayed as sharing characteristics with our earlier ancestors, evolutionarily speaking. We depicted them as ape-like and worthy of being shot and they did the EXACT same. Consider, cultures that have different standards of beauty, seem to have a universal view of ‘the ugly.’ Thoughts?
Lamar Smith
2024-07-10 06:33:33 +0000 UTCOn your “Tom Cruise is ugly,” bit, I’ll offer a HUGE recommendation: TAKE/MAKE the time to go to New Orleans and devote a full day to the World War II Museum. It was spectacular when it opened and has done nothing but get better. I’ve seen numerous interviews, for instance, about North Koreans able to escape their country. They’re frequently asked, “What were you told about Americans?” as virtually no North Koreans ever actually meet an American and the entire country is utterly propagandized by the regime. They grow up listening to songs whose titles translate to “smash the American invaders in the head!” In North Korean iconography the ‘American’ is, virtually without exception, depicted as simian, hulking, hairy, big-nosed, brutish….. It’s not even about whether it’s accurate, if that figure was drawn and a North Korean of ANY age would identify it, “That’s an American!” It’s heartwarming to watch their interviews of ‘When they first visited America.’ You’ll cry. That being said, the Eastern Asian’s view of a prototypical American’s features would run along the same lines: bigger (Average Caucasian is taller, though narrowing since post WWII slowly.), hairier (Generally speaking true), big-nosed (Haven’t seen a study but seems, more or less, right. I’m fine with it either way). When they’re calling him ‘ugly,’ just shorthand for ‘different.’ Plus, it’s hyper-competitive, warrior cul…… It’s just what guys do. Him getting ANY better, him sticking with it, though drilling with kids, threatens them. They’re ‘squashing the bug, lest it grow.”
Lamar Smith
2024-07-10 06:22:13 +0000 UTC
