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The Last Samurai - White Man's Wet Dream

posted 16 years ago by Poposhka
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TLS has some really great fighting/action scenes and some beautiful filmatography.

What I hate about it is how the movie is that it embodies everything in white people's wishful thinking. They want to "go away" from their homeland, and be unique and successful in another. White people are absolutely fascinated with Japanese culture.

This whole movie plays out like a white teenager's fantasy.. how he is a loser and hated back home, and moves to the new fantasy world where people love him, he gets to learn to kick the crap out of people, and bang gorgeous (but not too asian looking) women.

if the whole movie concept wasn't based on this white-teenager-wet-dream concept, i would say to put a japanese man in Tom Cruise's role, and the movie would have been epic.

[–] Bromeister 11 years ago

Yeah, I'm sure every teen wants to move to japan to raise some dead samurai's kids...

[–] Jefbecco-1 11 years ago

The OP has four posts to his/her history and hasn't been around (at least posting) since 2009. Troll.

[–] tmanqz 11 years ago

Only hint of any actual truth about "white mans wet dream" in your post is:

bang gorgeous women. *

The rest is krap....

[–] roger-395 11 years ago

Boy you have serious emotional problems. I've no interest in Japan, at least not living there. I've worked in in a dozen countries and each one offered a wonderfully unique experience. I confess that I find my own culture, in the US, repulsive because of it's over emphasis on materialism and greed but if I ever elected to become an ex-patriot it wouldn't be for any of the reasons you propose. Maybe when you grow up you will realize that different people make major life decisions for different reasons. Once you past the proverbial mid-life crisis, those decisions rarely have anything to do with escapism.