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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Yup, Last Samourai is 22 years old. Back then a lot of social issues have not been widely discussed.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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.

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