I don't get it. Why didn't he just stay down

I don't get it. Why didn't he just stay down.

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Women will never understand.

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I dunno lol xD

because you are a girl

Women could never even possibly begin to understand this scene.

I definitely agree that women can't understand this scene or this film. "The Last Samurai" is Tom Cruise's most fully realized love letter to himself. The only question here is whether its subtext is more masturbatory or homoerotic, as if Cruise had somehow made a film of him French-kissing and humping himself for two hours.

The homoerotic elements are obvious in scenes like the one pictured initially: the wooden swords as phallic symbols, Cruise constantly getting beaten and struggling back to his feet (sort of a "re-erection"), and the rain as a nearly universal symbol of sexual arousal.

In fact, the climactic scene where Cruise lovingly, tenderly kills Katsumoto nearly qualifies as gay porn. If the Stockholm Syndrome version of "meet cute" where the main character comes to worship and emulate his tormentor isn't enough, the fatal swordplay is clearly an over-the-top substitute for sex. In the end, it's clear that Cruise's only regret about this film would have to be that he couldn't have acted in both main roles.

"The Last Samurai" could easily have been retitled, "Dear Tom, I love you -- Tom Cruise."

LONDON

What the fuck is this? Pasta?

I've never seen it before, but you can bet I'll be using it in the next Last Samurai thread

damn

Always nice to see what happens to gender studies students after they graduate, thanks user

The Last Nigga On Earth, starring Tom Hanks.

>WHY WONTA U STAYU DOWNU?
>Because....I am....the Last.....Samurai...
What did he mean by this?

>mfw somebody actually came up with this

The only time when Tom Cruise will be the same height as the rest of the cast.

didnt know tarantino browses this board

What is the source of that moving image of a whore making a face that I don't understand because I have autism and she's a FUCKING BITCH?

Kek

> I would say the same thing, just to be polite. Let me tell you something that might be a bit dangerous. I was raised in Japan. I was schooled in martial arts. I was given the title of master. They take a movie “The Last Samurai.” They have a 5-foot-2-inch little guy, whether he was straight or gay, I don’t know. I don’t care. He had never been to Japan. He doesn’t speak Japanese. He has never held a sword. They make him the Last Samurai. We got 450,000 phone calls [laughs] from everybody in the world saying, “That role was perfect for you. How did that happen?” Most of the people I know didn’t like the film and didn’t go see it. It’s just a classic example of Hollywood and the politics.

take your medicine, spergy

I can't anymore because it made me grow breasts you stupid jerk. You're the human equivalent of an X-WING, just TERRIBLE.

How bout the last nigga on earth starring Tom Hanks

God bless you Steven Seagal.

Who wrote this?

Also Tom might be short but he's still pure alpha

Cruise didn't write or direct this movie

Sounds like what a women made of the scene

Steven Seagal

I actually watched this last night. I couldn't appreciate it at the time, back then, but I'm so glad I gave it another shot.

This scene was after he got over his desire to die. Many people misunderstand his lack of fear of death as being courageous, when in reality he just wants to fucking die. He spends all his time drinking to drown out his pass and forget everything, and when he finally gets a chance to die he doesn't fight back. He just wants it all to fucking end.

The scene by the OP was after his detox when he found something to live for.

youtube.com/watch?v=OUHHhuLUJy8

The scene if anyone wants to see it again.

He finally found people smaller than him.

He had to win.

Movie was dogshit fampais.

Boshin War is already interesting enough, it doesn't need my white guy to self insert into and le noble savages whitewashing of history.

Reminder that samurai is the plural of samurai, and the title isn't only referring to Tom Cruise's character

Wasn't the title supposed to be plural? And the last Samurai were the ones killed in the battle. Maybe I'm giving this film to much credit

Underrated post

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Was there even any men left in the village when he went back

Yeah I saw. Posts were 11 seconds apart though mate so it wasn't there when I asked

>the samurai were elite warriors meme
Edo period samurai were a bunch of bureaucrats.

The most common outcome of a sword duel during the time period was by far mutual death.

I know ;)

It isn't referring to to Tom Cruise at all. That's what makes this movie a tragedy. He finally finds a people he belongs to, and they all die. Everything he has fallen in love with is gone, he watches it happen.

And he can't even commit seppuku because he has to go to the Emperor.

Another thing people get wrong is that they think the army at the end is bowing to Tom Cruise. youtube.com/watch?v=sZTWCwqmgLc

They aren't they are bowing to Katsumoto. Tom Cruise is irrelevant to them. Katsumoto was a real person who did rebel and was pardoned and honored after the rebellion.

Except there was literally a samurai rebellion you fucking mongoloid

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsuma_Rebellion

Nope, all fucked.

>Except there was literally a samurai rebellion you fucking mongoloid
Yeah a bunch of people took up their ceremonial arms and died like the bureaucrats they truly were.
No I take that back, they deserted like the bureaucrats they were leaving Saigo to die.

>Edo period samurai were a bunch of bureaucrats.
>The most common outcome of a sword duel during the time period was by far mutual death.

Yeah let's just ignore the Boshin War that had almost 10000 fucking casualties

They were gay obviously

>There are still people who don't think Tom Cruise is the last samurai

>there are still """"people"""" that post dumb frogs

>bunch of people died like bureaucrats

It was a rebellion of almost 30,000 fucking Samurai you ignorant dumbass. It was so costly that it forced Japan off the gold standard and to print paper money.

Not mutually exclusive. A formation battle is very different from hollywood super swordsman bullshit.

Weeb pandering bullshit. Making any type of Japs, Chinks, or slimy yellow mongoloid race sympathetic in any way is a Jew trick and you faggots all fell for it. Back in my day we used to stack these yellow bastards ten high, you lick their tiny yellow pricks like they're full of the antidote for the AIDS you caught from making out with your two fathers when they had a bloody cold sore. Disgusting.

>the movie wasn't historically accurate

Obviously? What's your point?

> little guy
Is Cruise really a little guy For Him?

You can find my point in my original post.
>Boshin War is already interesting enough

You literally have autism

I hated this joke, because the comedian obviously never saw the movie. Cruise doesn't play a samurai, he plays a foreigner (an American military officer iirc).

I don't understand, why doesn't he just run away and find a safe place ?

Plus it just isn't funny

>ask simple question
>get memed out of existence
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To answer your question, OP, it's more about Western versus Eastern Philosophies.

Why is japanese culture so compelling to foreigners?

Cause he's a fucking American.

>re-erection

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>I didn't get the point of the joke because I'm an autistic Trumpkike so the joke is bad

Nah, you're just stupid.

This. I don't expect a bunch of Yurosurrenders to understand honor.

Why do chicks studying gender studies monitor movies for dicks. Kind of a strange obsession

Sorry I shit on your unfunny husbando

op confirmed frenchman

because japanese are honorabu people and make anime

>most of the people didn't like the film and didn't go see it
but how do they know they didn't like it if they didn't see it?

You sure proved me wrong with those hot opinions, fagtron.

>I'm an autistic Trumpkike
Yeah your opinions we're smoking hot

They like our shit too. It's just "le exotic cool foreign shit" meme that Japan pushes a step further by producing a lot of pop culture stuff that gels well with the west.

But you are an autistic Trumpkike. I mean, it's obvious.

The point is that the Last Samurai isn't a white savior movie, but the average movie goer is such a fucking retard that they don't understand it.

The Last Samurai is one of the movies normies really fuck up at understanding

Similarities to European culture. Feudal Lords = Daimyo. Knights = Samurai. Chivalry = Bushido.

Also they are one of the few, if only, Asian nations that went on a European Imperial Rampage on their neighbors.

As to why white people love Japanese culture, my theory is that post WWII the jews purged American germans of their culture/language/nationality so they eventually look elsewhere to fill the void.

>implying cruise the bruise wouldn't go all cuhrazee Scientology Jack reacher on seagal
>implying that seagal toughness is valid after he ran from another 5'2 white guy, van damme

HONORU

god imagine being smothered beneath those asses

QUICK I JUST HAD THE BEST IDEA
SOMEONE REDUB THE MUSIC WITH MGSV'S
WHOOOOOHOOOOOAAAAAAA WHEN IT SWELLS

western supremacy
>how original

I believe I was meant to be born Japanese.

I agree. You were, in Nagasaki sometime in the early 40's.

I have the soul of a japanese man. I truly feel like a newhalf.

Jada any day.

Gotta love the seagall, man.

shut up Colton

>I was raised in Japan.
wtf? why would he lie about this when people can easily look it up? he was born in michigan and later moved to Fullerton, California. he only moved to japan for 2 years when he was 19

Maybe he meant that he was a born again Japanese.

Because he's fucking crazy and believes his own bullshit.

>Imagine being Ahnuld in this thread...

god steven please get testical and ass cancer

Seagal (changed from Seagull, a Jewish name) is the very definition of a weeb. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing in and of itself, but he must be one of the most delusional people in Hollywood, which is saying quite a lot.

He wasn't contacted because he is a shit actor. Any movie he is in automatically becomes and unintentional B-tier comedy at best. Seeing webms of him donning military garb and fucking around clearing rooms and shit has made me furious over the years. Why isn't anyone who is close to him honest with him? This fucking guy needs a reality check maybe more than anyone else on the planet.

10/10 really made me think

Seagal does something and then claims he can do it x100. He was given some award for saying "nukes are bad" and then later said he could disarm any nuclear weapon.

>Steven Seagal is widely considered to be the worst SNL guest host “He didn't want to be on sketches,” Macdonald told us of the bloated martial arts star’s 1991 visit. In 2014, “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels told New York magazine that one night when Nicolas Cage was hosting, the actor worried aloud during his monologue that he would be “the worst host ever.” Michaels came onstage to assure Cage “No, that was Steve Seagal.” Macdonald went on to say “Rob Schneider had this great story that he came out of his dressing room and (Seagal) said ‘I just read the greatest movie script ever’ and Rob Schneider said ‘Who wrote it?' and he said ‘I did!’” Shocked by Seagal’s arrogance, Macdonald asked Schneider if the witless “Under Siege” star might have been kidding and Schneider assured him “No, he definitely wasn't joking.”

youtube.com/watch?v=nFAS4qEWiFo
Katsumoto was the best character for this scene alone

American.