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Let's get into the episode. 
What's up everybody, Welcome 

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back to the CRWN Cinema Podcast.
In this episode, we are breaking

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down. 
And literally just watched. 

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The last. 
Samurai. 

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Tom Cruise Peak. 
Well, yeah, I'm saying peak, but

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this is peak Tom Cruise. 
Error wise right? 

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Isn't that this was discussed on
the Tropic Thunder episode? 

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This. 
Is the in the middle of an 

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insane movie run for Tom Cruise 
in his early 2000s leading up to

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Les Grossman? 
Yeah, this is this is what it's 

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all LED up to. 
This was like just a little 

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piece of the puzzle that led 
into the figure character that 

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we all know and love, Les 
Grossman, Last Samurai. 

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I will. 
This movie means something to 

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me. 
I love this movie. 

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I this is my third time today 
watching it ever. 

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Last night was my second time, 
the first time I ever saw this 

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movie. 
I think, like, I was a little 

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kid and my mom was just watching
it and like, I think me and her 

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were the only ones at the house.
And so, like, I just saw it and 

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I was like, yeah, like mom 
watching a movie I think 

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probably sucks. 
Nope, Nope. 

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Stayed watch the whole thing. 
It changed my whole day, 

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whatever plans I had. 
It was like, now I have to. 

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This movie's incredible. 
This movie's awesome. 

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Kind of a childhood staple. 
I watched it, I've seen it many 

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times. 
Really. 

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Yeah. 
This is one of your like kind of

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go to's with the family. 
It's like, you know? 

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It's one of those movies I. 
Haven't seen the last Samurai 

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while it's. 
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that, you know, talking to your 
dad about movies and then my 

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dad's like, you haven't seen a 
lot of samurai. 

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It's like, oh, come here, play 
it. 

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Oh, yeah. 
Like oh, that was insane. 

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It's a great movie, lot of 
killing, so you got to be a big 

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fan of this lot. 
Of killing. 

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In fact, there are 558 deaths in
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Oh, OK, OK, that makes sense. 
Battles with the battles. 

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OK. 
I was like, how it's like, Tom 

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Cruise is not that crazy in this
movie, but OK, Yeah. 

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I mean, especially once the 
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and arrows. 
All right, That checks out. 

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The entire population of the 
samurai gets extinguished. 

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Yeah, except. 
For the white. 

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Man, it is a war movie. 
Feel like like that kind of gets

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lost on me. 
Like when I was watching it. 

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You don't, you kind of forget, 
like what the title of the movie

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is as you're watching it, you 
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Like, they kind of spoil what's 
about to happen, you know? 

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And obviously samurais run 
around today, so. 

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Yeah, like, obviously, you know,
it's just one of those. 

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But then like that final battle 
scene, just seeing it last 

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night, I was like, damn, I kind 
of forgot that they're they're 

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not going to win this. 
I don't. 

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Yeah. 
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say, I don't know how Tom Cruise
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it's the endings with the 
writer, the book, what likes to 

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think what happened. 
This is based on a book. 

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No, no, no, I'm talking about 
the writer of the Remember, he 

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gives a journal to that. 
Photographer OK, OK, OK. 

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It's like for. 
Your book at the end you hear 

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him voicing over and he says we 
don't know what happened to the 

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American captain, but I liked 
it. 

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Some say die from his wounds. 
Some say he whatever back to his

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country. 
Like to think that he found some

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peace. 
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And. 
Then maybe what they see is what

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actually happened to him. 
You could kind of choose 

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whatever you want, I guess, 
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Well, because they switch 
narrators in that sense, you 

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know, they have Tom Cruise's 
character kind of narrating the 

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whole movie through his journal 
entries. 

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So I will say I love this movie.
I do. 

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It holds a special place in my 
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I did look at me, but there's 
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It you brought it up. 
I have AI have a whole list 

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we'll just like kind of go down 
in sections. 

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I'll say the one. 
Thing that I think is this is 

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this won't be in order of what 
you're about to say. 

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But for me, the one thing that I
just find corny, just the ending

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when he's bowing down to the 
Emperor. 

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He just is now. 
Like he's OK respecting samurai 

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culture, sure, but now he's just
like the Emperor's now, my God, 

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right? 
Like what? 

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Really. 
Just yeah, kind of like the 

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whole thing, really like just 
Tom Cruise in general. 

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And let me say this, this is 
actually one of those movies 

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where like, I don't really see 
Tom Cruise as much. 

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I feel like I see more of the 
character itself until kind of 

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the end. 
Then it then he's yeah, then 

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he's Mr. Badass. 
Yeah, and he's Mr. Badass and 

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like they're bowing to him at 
the end of the battle. 

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He's the last samurai, kind of, 
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I mean you because. 
Moto is the literal last samurai

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to to die like in the. 
Battle. 

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And I think really The Last 
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the last samurai. 
As in like plural samurai. 

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It's the last people of the 
samurai. 

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You know, I don't, I don't think
they would try to say the white 

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man is the last samurai. 
OK, but they do bow down to him.

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But out of respect. 
But when, when you're saying in 

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the battle. 
At the end of the battle. 

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They're now they're bowing to 
Katsumoto, who just killed 

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himself. 
Yeah. 

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But honoring him, yeah. 
But it looks like they're bowing

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to Tom. 
Cruise the Tom Cruise is just 

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like. 
Worship me. 

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It's just one of yeah, it's just
one of those where like I always

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take it back to Mission 
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They did it on the last. 
Episode literally about to say 

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this is the samurai Ethan Hunt 
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Yes, thank you. 
OK, So I don't even need to say 

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it like it. 
It just is. 

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It's like he shows up. 
He shows up and like he's 

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obviously he's a badass, like 
credited badass. 

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You know, he's done some great 
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He's a great warrior and then 
when he gets on the battlefield,

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they spare him. 
At least Katsumoto does. 

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Is it? 
I'm going to mess up his name I 

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feel like. 
Katsumoto. 

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Katsumoto, he spares him on the 
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him of the white tiger that he's
been seeing in his dreams, where

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he's like kind of fighting off 
the enemy as the samurai are 

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doing. 
So like he kind of he sees his 

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people in him as far as like, we
are surrounded by enemies and we

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are just like kind of swarming 
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Get that? 
That's really well done. 

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I like that a lot actually. 
And it's also 'cause that's his,

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he's having that flashback in 
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them, him, it's his memory of 
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And probably from his 
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up to the tiger and you know, 
Japanese culture, obviously 

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artwork and stuff like that. 
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respect the tiger 'cause it's 
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jungle and they're the most 
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And so it's almost like they're 
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back and they have to kill it. 
But he feels bad about having to

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kill the tiger because it's just
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they're and it's a white tiger, 
mind you, rare tiger and they 

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killed it. 
So he's, that's his, that's his 

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trauma that he keeps, that's his
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Yeah, it's a cool callback. 
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He regrets they killed that 
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Yeah, it's a cool callback. 
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surrounded and he's fighting 
like a tiger. 

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You can see the warrior spirit 
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coming here. 
He's not just some American 

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soldier that's got guns and 
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He's to the last ounce of 
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He's going to fight. 
You see that multiple times in 

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the movie. 
Tom Cruise will just fight like 

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when even when he's going to get
beat, he'd still pick up the 

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sword and like do a half ass 
swing with all the only amount 

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of strength that's left in him. 
So Katsumoto sees that in him. 

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He's like, and he's waving the 
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symbolism. 
He writes poetry and shit. 

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He has visions. 
So he's like, there's something 

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else with this guy. 
Yeah, yeah, which that part that

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that works for me I I have no 
problem with that. 

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I I only have little nitpicks 
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I don't have anything like 
major. 

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So what one of the other things 
that kind of comes to mind is 

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like, I just don't like it when 
characters are written to be 

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like specifically dumb, 
especially when they're in a 

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position of power where like to 
get to that position, they had 

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to be smart. 
And so I'm thinking of the 

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translator. 
Well, I guess the narrator at 

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the end of it that writes his 
book. 

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I didn't really appreciate that 
that's how they chose to show 

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Tom Cruise's character like his 
trauma. 

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Whenever the the translator is 
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linguist, like please tell me 
about the savage language. 

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Like say hello or goodbye. 
Oh, never mind that, say cut out

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his tongue. 
Cut out his tongue and boil it 

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in water. 
Or oil, he says. 

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Or. 
Oil. 

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Yeah, sorry. 
And so he says that. 

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And like, that is just not the 
right way to do that, especially

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given like what we're seeing, 
you know, he's an alcoholic, 

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messed up war veteran, clearly 
traumatized, like clearly is not

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happy to be here, wants to die. 
And so like, that's just not 

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good. 
Reading the room. 

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I would have rather I think that
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and it would have worked even 
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been whenever Tom Cruise 
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Katsumoto in the garden about 
the ancestors having regret and 

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then he tells him he's like, you
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It would have been better 
delivered if Katsumoto had been 

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like, why don't you share or 
like, why don't you tell me? 

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Let your problems go in this 
garden. 

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That's when you get the 
flashback of like where all this

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pain comes from. 
Like what what he did was bad. 

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It's an actual terrible thing. 
Like he was a part of a mass, a 

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massacre of women, children, our
whole tribe. 

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And like, he didn't like step 
back from it. 

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He actively participated in it. 
So I would have rather that have

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been the way that we get. 
But in that scene, we don't see 

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that. 
We just see him talking about 

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scalping. 
In the garden, no. 

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When he's talking to the 
linguist. 

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It happens right after he tells 
him, and then he's just like 

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kind of sitting there with, 
like, the memory of it and it 

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floods him and it all comes back
to him. 

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I just don't think, like, I just
don't like that. 

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Yeah, I just, yeah, I, I, I 
think that's kind of 

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inconsistent. 
It makes sense for the Simon 

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Graham is the writer at the very
end of the narrator, the little 

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photographer, linguist guy. 
It makes sense for his character

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though, because he's a guy that 
studies books and so he has this

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separation from what actually 
happened. 

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He's just studying the battle, 
studying the history. 

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He's never actually been through
a battle, been through that. 

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So him asking that and not 
reading the room, right? 

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It's because he doesn't read 
rooms, he reads books. 

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I see what you mean, but I also 
think that like if you're going 

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to conduct interviews with 
soldiers, which is probably how 

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he gets all of his material is 
through interviews, I don't. 

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Think he writes. 
Really. 

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I think he he translates books. 
I was and. 

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Then now he's writing a book 
about the samurai. 

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OK, OK. 
In that case, yeah, Yeah, that 

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might actually be like a good 
interpretation. 

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Your main issue isn't 
necessarily with him, it's with 

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the how the flashback pops in. 
Yeah, I again, like, I think it 

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just would have been better 
delivered. 

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I well, I do have a problem with
the translator. 

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Just like like how that's like 
incredibly dense to not see that

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like what? 
You should not have said that, 

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right. 
But also, yeah, like I think it 

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would have been way better for 
us to see that he's messed up, 

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but then see him be become like 
a good man, you know, through 

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his sobriety and like he's been 
training with the samurai. 

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And then it like shows you like,
damn, he killed children. 

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OK, Like that's, that's pretty 
hardcore. 

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In the audience's eyes, though, 
could set back his progress. 

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If you see him killing women and
children, you don't see him like

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point blank doing it. 
You just know that it happened 

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at the battle he was at and he 
was probably participating 

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because he always has. 
Obviously has the trauma. 

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For the sake of this being a 
feel good Tom Cruise movie, in a

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sense, I can understand why they
didn't do that because they're 

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like, no, Tom Cruise is one over
the audience. 

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He's one over the samurai. 
He can't just tell the Lord like

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I, I killed children. 
With women and children. 

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And then Katsumoto is like what?
Yeah. 

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I I brought you in. 
You've been raised by children. 

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Yeah. 
Are they in danger? 

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Yeah. 
Oh, so I could. 

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Yeah. 
I could see that being a thing. 

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Other NIT picky things. 
Tom Cruise saving. 

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No, I have it written down. 
Nobu Tata. 

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Nobu Tata said. 
I don't know if you pronounce 

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it. 
Who's that? 

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That is like the kind of his 
little brother that's very 

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friendly. 
See him in the bottom left 

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there. 
Nobu Tata. 

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Nobu Tata, I'm sure I'm messing 
that up, but I'm I'm trying my 

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best here. 
When he saves him on the bridge 

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after he's already been shot. 
This character, by the way, is 

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Katsumoto's son, the Archer. 
Nice like. 

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What? 
For real? 

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No. 
No, I'm just saying for the 

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audience sake. 
Oh, nice. 

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Thank you. 
Just a little clarification I'm 

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sure. 
So it's his sister and his son. 

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
That's his son because he calls 

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her, he calls Taka aunt, OK in 
the beginning. 

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OK, OK. 
Thank you. 

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Tom Cruise going and saving him 
on the bridge while it's like 

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under fire, just kind of that's 
just like Hollywood magic. 

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You can't even be mad about it 
because like they do that. 

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This is one of those movies 
where like it's clear that like 

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Tom Cruise will not die so he 
can take Tom Cruise type risks. 

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So him running to the bridge in 
the middle of it while it's 

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under fire, just like a little 
bit of a cloak kind of. 

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And he doesn't even necessarily 
save him. 

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It's just like he brings him to 
his father so the father can be 

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with him at the end. 
Just a little nitpick. 

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Like I just, I, part of me 
honestly thinks that like if 

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this movie got made today, it'd 
be interesting in a more 

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realistic way. 
Like if somebody had a better 

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crack at it. 
Yeah, they they. 

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I'll try to take away from it 
because I I really do like this 

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movie. 
That's at the end. 

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They really set up the fact that
he's going to live by saying 

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he's like, I should have died 
many times. 

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He's like, yeah, you still live 
like just this warrior. 

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Tom Cruise just can't die, 
right? 

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He just somehow survives 
battles. 

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Yeah. 
So when he runs in and saves a 

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man getting shot at in the 
middle of a bridge wide open 

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with no cover, that's what 
happens with this guy. 

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Which is why I kind of disagree 
with the ending of it overall. 

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Tom Cruise's character like, 
desperately has been looking to 

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die in a battle to kind of be 
put out of his misery. 

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And now that he expect, you 
know, it's one of those for like

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he killed a tribe. 
And so I think it would have 

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made more sense for his 
character to die at the end 

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because he's like he fought for 
this tribe till the till the 

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bitter end and died with them. 
So it's almost like it almost 

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like it balances that balances 
it out, even though it does not.

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You know what he did is very, 
very bad, but for the 

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character's sake, like it would 
have rather he died and not like

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been brought up to the emperor 
and gets to like be the last 

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samurai. 
So there's that. 

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I don't like that he kisses. 
This also might have to do with 

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the fact that I don't agree with
the ending, but I don't like 

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that he kisses Taka that her 
name, because it's a movie about

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honor. 
It's all about like honoring the

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people and all that. 
So he has been proving that like

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he just loves these people and 
what they stand for and the the 

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peace that they have acquired 
and like the fact that like they

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have saved him from his own 
trauma and like, like got him 

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into sobriety. 
And so like, it just seems like 

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he and he killed her husband. 
So like that makes it a little 

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trickier too, but. 
It's the samurai culture. 

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He died doing his duty. 
It's like an honorable death. 

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Yeah, but is that really how 
that works? 

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Like, all right, Like, this dude
killed your husband. 

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He's your problem now. 
Yeah. 

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You know, it's just one of those
for like and OK, so to kind of 

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get more into that, like the 
night before the final battle, I

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think that's like a little 
Hollywood feel where there's 

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like, damn, like have they been 
feeling each other this whole 

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time? 
Is it like the build up there's 

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been? 
Tension in the whole movie. 

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Right. 
Has it been romantic tension? 

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But then she closes the door on 
him at night. 

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And so part of me thought, like,
wow, that's really cool that 

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she's saying no. 
Like, I have honored you as a 

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guest. 
You are a great warrior. 

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You are clearly respected by my 
people. 

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But I don't see you that way. 
Also, in that shot, you see her 

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ex, her former husband's armor 
in the background when she 

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closes the door. 
So I kind of thought that 

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symbolized like, we can never be
lovers because you killed my 

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husband. 
I took that as her not wanting 

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to get close and lose somebody 
else. 

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Like she's like forging her to 
shut him out because she doesn't

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want to lose him. 
Like she doesn't want to commit 

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to the feelings. 
And then she's like, so she 

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doesn't want to commit to the 
feelings. 

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So she shuts the door to try to 
protect herself from being sad 

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about his death because it's 
going to, they kind of know it's

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going to be a brutal battle. 
There's going to be a lot of 

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death. 
He's probably going to die so. 

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I guess, yeah. 
That's how I took it. 

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Yeah, you could take it that 
way, especially since the 

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youngest son is crying and he's 
like, probably because, you 

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know, he doesn't want me around.
And she was like, actually quite

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the opposite. 
He doesn't want to lose another 

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father figure. 
It's not like they hooked up, 

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they just had a little kiss and 
then she's like, OK, we can't do

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this and then just dresses him. 
You're right. 

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What just makes me kind of hate 
the kiss more. 

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Maybe not hate, but just like he
just didn't have to. 

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It was like this beautiful 
moment. 

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It's so long. 
The music's really well and like

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you can like kind of feel. 
The tension really, I guess, but

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really like, is it a respect 
thing or are they actually about

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to get it on? 
And then he kisses her and like 

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he like doesn't like lay up that
one on her. 

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She. 
Also doesn't close her eyes. 

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He doesn't close her eyes when 
she kisses. 

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Him, yeah. 
So that's some more respect to 

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her husband. 
Like I will go, but eyes closed.

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I mean, eyes open. 
OK, OK. 

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Quickest. 
Thank you. 

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Let me see. 
I think 001 more. 

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I swear this is it. 
Colonel. 

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What's his name? 
Colonel Bagley. 

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Colonel. 
Colonel Bagel. 

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That the motherfucker. 
He's the. 

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Bagley, you dumbass. 
Colonel Bagley Bagley. 

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Colonel Bagley. 
Bagley, Baiwi. 

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It's Colonel Bagley. 
Think that's how it looks. 

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I see it as Colonel Bagley, but 
it's probably Bagley. 

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It doesn't matter. 
Same shit we're saying. 

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The same shit. 
It's Colonel Bagley. 

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It's got to be Colonel Bagley. 
You said Bagley. 

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I did. 
Oh, I'm thinking bagel. 

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Whatever. 
Sorry. 

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Keep going. 
Bagley, it's, it's Bagley. 

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Yeah, yeah, you're right. 
I don't like that kind of at the

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end there. 
He seems to feel bad about what 

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he's doing to the samurai. 
You think? 

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He Where is he? 
Who's the bad Japanese person? 

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The one that's like Is that 
Omura? 

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Yeah, Omura. 
Omura found him like kill them 

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all. 
And he like looks at him and he 

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oh, he says like, oh, they're 
about to attack again. 

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They're about to attack. 
And he's like, they're about to 

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attack, OK, well, let's kill 
them all. 

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And he looks almost angry. 
Colonel Bagley. 

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And then he like hits him in the
chest with something. 

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I don't know what it was. 
His his binoculars. 

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OK, he hits him in the chest as 
if he's like God, like this is 

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wrong what we're doing. 
I don't like that. 

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I I think he he is a bad guy and
he's already he shows no remorse

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for killing children. 
It's like, that's literally as 

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bad as it gets. 
Like that's horrible. 

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That's a bad thing. 
So don't start feeling bad now. 

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I wonder if instead of him being
mad or feeling bad about it, 

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he's scared because what this, 
you know, Japanese general is 

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telling him is final attack. 
You're on that attack, by the 

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way, like he's a part of the 
troops that's fighting. 

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Like his contract probably has 
him. 

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You know, when it gets to the 
end, you got to fight. 

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I'm not fighting. 
I'm the fuck, I'm the boss, I'm 

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on the council of the Emperor. 
So I think I wonder if it's more

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like he's pissed off that they 
have to go fight them. 

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Like he now has to go step in 
and fight. 

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It's like final attack go and 
he's like fuck yeah, he's like I

452
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,000
gotta go fuck and fight some 
samurai. 

453
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:16,320
Maybe I since I doubt they give 
him a redeeming moment it. 

454
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,240
Just the intention. 
It just looked by the way he was

455
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,720
looking at the samurai. 
He was like, this is wrong. 

456
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,600
Like we're just mowing them down
and they have swords and armor. 

457
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,440
And honor. 
And honor. 

458
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,240
Yeah. 
I was like, no, no, no, don't 

459
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:34,360
start feeling bad now. 
You killed children and kind of 

460
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,680
just don't care. 
So don't know. 

461
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,880
You get no redemption in this. 
You just deserve to die. 

462
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,200
Yeah. 
Good. 

463
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,880
And buy a great Tom Cruise 
throw. 

464
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,760
Yeah, a cool thing about this 
movie with Tom Cruise's samurais

465
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,920
ability is that the stunt 
coordinators, they train Tom 

466
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,920
Cruise throughout the movie. 
Usually you do all you do all 

467
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,160
your training and prep 
beforehand, so you're ready to 

468
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,840
go dialed in for the movie. 
But on this movie, they trained 

469
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,800
him throughout, so that way you 
can watch his swordsmanship get 

470
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,920
better actually as his character
gets better. 

471
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:10,480
That's impressive considering in
that first fog fight when he's I

472
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,560
mean it's pretty bad ass in. 
That, I mean, he's been, he's 

473
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,560
has fought with swords before. 
You know, yeah, like, I mean, 

474
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,200
you're getting Tom Cruise in 
this movie. 

475
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,040
So like, he's going to show out 
when it comes to fight scenes, 

476
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,480
which I love. 
And he looks awesome. 

477
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:28,080
It's very realistic. 
It makes sense when Katsumoto 

478
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,120
sees him as a tiger, 'cause he's
just like this crazy fighter 

479
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,440
that's Tom Cruise, you know? 
So, yeah, but that, that's 

480
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,800
really interesting. 
'Cause I mean, you can see, you 

481
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,520
know? 
So he's not necessarily acting 

482
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,840
badly as a swordman when he's 
getting beat up by, what's his 

483
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:50,240
name, the best, the badass 
samurai Yu-gi-oh. 

484
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,840
Yu-gi-oh, when he's fighting him
with the sticks and you know 

485
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,880
when he's like fighting the kid,
he's beating on the kid and then

486
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,080
he's like, you want to fucking 
fight? 

487
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:57,920
I'll show you a fight and then 
beats his ass. 

488
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:05,560
Which I couldn't tell if that 
happens because he's fighting a 

489
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:12,360
kid or if it's because Tom 
Cruise I keep calling him Tom 

490
00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:17,360
Cruise Nathan or if it's because
Nathan cheats because he. 

491
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:18,520
Cheats. 
He does cheat. 

492
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,280
He grabs the kids stick, which 
is supposed to be a sword. 

493
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,000
So that's cheating. 
You can't do that. 

494
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,560
So now I'm about to come whoop 
your ass. 

495
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,440
So I I think that's what it is. 
I don't think it's because he 

496
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:30,720
doesn't like the outsider, 
probably. 

497
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,120
A mixture of all things. 
Well, he doesn't like the 

498
00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:34,520
outsider. 
He doesn't but like Kozmoto has 

499
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:39,080
been like don't hurt him. 
So like that would be directly 

500
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,240
disobeying your superior. 
I think hurt and samurai 

501
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:43,560
language means something a 
little different. 

502
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:49,040
Hurt means like kill or like cut
him up but you can whack his ass

503
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,640
with a sword in training. 
Yeah, but like he like just 

504
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,280
straight up, I think it's 
because he grabs a sword. 

505
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,120
And because he and he beats his 
ass because he won't quit that 

506
00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:02,640
too. 
Like you're going to learn 

507
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,320
today, boy. 
Yeah, but I I like, I like that 

508
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,320
detail because I think that is 
what it is. 

509
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,760
I think if he because Tom Cruise
was, he's kind of losing this 

510
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,280
kid if he didn't cheat, right. 
The guy tells me he's like, kids

511
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:16,840
are strong. 
I mean. 

512
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,240
He was going to, he was going to
get in with that hit. 

513
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,080
That's why I grabbed it. 
Yeah, so that's cheating. 

514
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,880
So now we now we beat your ass. 
And of course, you know, Tom 

515
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,920
Cruise commits heavily to his 
roles with whatever it is. 

516
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,520
And so in this movie, he said, 
you know, him taking the 

517
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,840
philosophy of the samurai 
seriously and really getting in 

518
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,880
touch with the characters and 
the surrounding characters. 

519
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,560
He said he almost got to a point
in the movie during production 

520
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,080
where he felt so in tune with 
his body because he's, you know,

521
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,520
training with swords and it's 
all about the samurai and, and 

522
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:47,800
fighting. 
So he felt like he was so in 

523
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,080
tune with like being aware of 
his body that he said it 

524
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,440
shockingly during the big battle
scene when people running 

525
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,080
around, you're just slamming 
into people. 

526
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,520
No one got hurt. 
Like he didn't get hurt at all 

527
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,080
through all the stunts, through 
everything. 

528
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,120
He didn't get hurt 'cause he 
felt like he just like, knew how

529
00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:03,680
to land, knew how to like, move,
maneuver his body to like be 

530
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,240
safe and just. 
He was just dialed in on his 

531
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,120
samurai training. 
Let's go. 

532
00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:09,760
I mean, Tom Cruise just a 
legend. 

533
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,200
He just did and he, you know, 
it's it's always nice to see 

534
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,280
somebody like give a damn about 
what they do. 

535
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:21,800
So like it when it comes to Tom 
Cruise playing some type of 

536
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,800
action role. 
I mean, you at least know that 

537
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,200
you're going to get him giving 
it his all, so. 

538
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,360
Yeah, I mean, those battle 
scenes are incredible. 

539
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,960
So good, so good. 
Lot of killing. 

540
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,600
Yeah, Like, let just like, 
cinematically, I don't think 

541
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,600
this movie does anything 
incredibly special. 

542
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,680
I think it's like kind of basic 
shots for the most part. 

543
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:47,120
But that fog scene when the 
samurai come out of the woods 

544
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,200
out of the fog in the open 
fight, Yeah. 

545
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,800
When he gets captured before he 
gets captured. 

546
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,560
That looks cool. 
Yeah, that's awesome. 

547
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,320
Scary. 
And then Tom Cruise get knocked 

548
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,760
off his horse and then honestly,
becoming a better fighter off of

549
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,800
his horse and just the way he 
manoeuvres. 

550
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,440
I can't really. 
I think he's just Tom Cruise is 

551
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,360
so explosive in his movements. 
I think that's what's so awesome

552
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,320
about Tom Cruise. 
He knows how to perform for the 

553
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,840
camera. 
Yeah, like he just looks 

554
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:21,400
confident and just like he just,
he looks like a madman out 

555
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,200
there, so. 
And I think he is insane, yeah, 

556
00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:28,640
especially at this time, but. 
The that opening, it kind of 

557
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,920
sucks a little bit that it's at 
the beginning only because of 

558
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,920
the, if you think about putting 
yourself in the mind of the 

559
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:41,320
Japanese guys fighting 
underneath Tom Cruise, they, 

560
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,440
they're, they like, they know 
who the samurai are. 

561
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:47,000
We don't necessarily know how 
intense or how brutal or how 

562
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,440
good the samurai are at war. 
Like we've kind of been told 

563
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,200
about it, but we don't really 
know it. 

564
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,160
So they do a good job, at least 
from beginning to set up just 

565
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,520
how powerful these guys are and 
how scary it would be to fight 

566
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,080
them. 
But you don't really get to feel

567
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,240
necessarily how insanely scary 
it is to be up there with your 

568
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,880
muskets in the woods and you 
hear, wow, the samurai coming. 

569
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,080
Then you see them come out of 
the fog with their helmets. 

570
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,960
Like if you're one of those 
guys, the Japanese guys that 

571
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,240
knows what you're about to get 
into, you are shitting your 

572
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,640
pants. 
You see their face and 

573
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,800
everything. 
So they do a good enough job to 

574
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,000
get you to understand that. 
But if you just like, think 

575
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,240
about that, what those 
characters are at, there's a 

576
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,560
real man, what they're actually 
feeling you. 

577
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,400
Probably could have shown a 
little bit better close up shots

578
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:32,120
of the soldiers like trembling. 
Or or before that you build up 

579
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,960
how insane these guys are. 
Yeah, I agree. 

580
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,920
I agree. 
It's like that. 

581
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,640
Like you could have shown them 
looking really scared when 

582
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:47,800
Colonel Bagley was like, like we
go tomorrow. 

583
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,560
We we, we, we ride tomorrow to 
to fight them. 

584
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,120
Like you could have shown them 
being like, oh, no, God, we 

585
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,760
don't want to do that. 
So for the sake of the movie, 

586
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:05,040
movies incredibly historically 
inaccurate as it goes. 

587
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,520
All right, before I want to hear
this because you did some 

588
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,920
historical research, but before 
you say this, I want to say one 

589
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,080
thing that they did really well.
So the village that they 

590
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:17,400
created, you know, the obviously
the samurai village, it was so 

591
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,400
accurate of how it looked, how 
it felt. 

592
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,440
If they didn't film it in Japan,
they filmed it in New Zealand. 

593
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:24,160
Oh, damn it. 
Yeah. 

594
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,160
Oh, what? 
And so they made that set feel 

595
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:32,280
so realistic that when they 
hired older Japanese people to 

596
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,520
come live in the village extras,
they showed up and teared up and

597
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,400
cried because it reminded them 
exactly how they grew up a long 

598
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:40,840
time ago. 
That's cool. 

599
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,640
See, that's sick. 
So that was super accurate that 

600
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,000
they were like, wow, this 
literally feels like home. 

601
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,400
That's where I grew up in like a
village just like this. 

602
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,440
And so there's some pros now and
you. 

603
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,000
Know what the samurai when 
they're fully suited up in their

604
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,720
armor, sick. 
Badass. 

605
00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,880
So badass, so badass. 
One of the other shots that I 

606
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,240
just love and I think like 
probably the most famous one is 

607
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:08,400
Tom Cruise practicing by himself
on the hill with the sun 

608
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,560
setting. 
That looks good. 

609
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,440
All right, what are the 
historical inaccuracies in this 

610
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,520
thing? 
OK. 

611
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,800
Just quickly watch it, which I 
think everybody probably just 

612
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,920
knows that. 
It's going to Hollywood itself 

613
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,520
up it's. 
Going to Hollywood itself up. 

614
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,120
So this isn't a bad thing. 
I'm just saying like it is 

615
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:28,960
interesting. 
They took creative liberties 

616
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,640
that I think today because I 
feel like a lot of movies today,

617
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:42,200
they try to shy away from giving
the main character like a cloak 

618
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:46,400
of kind of invincible. 
You know what I mean? 

619
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,800
Just the the bridge scene, Tom 
Cruise running out to the bridge

620
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,560
and he can't die yet. 
So like he just doesn't get 

621
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,080
shot. 
Feel like Movies Now like kind 

622
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,200
of shy away from that and make 
the main character, the 

623
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,080
protagonist, like actually think
of a way to survive. 

624
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:07,560
I feel like anyways, I just 
thought, OK, so I watched this 

625
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,000
video from history buffs. 
I'm not about to to take credit 

626
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,760
of it, but I'll just give like a
quick relapse. 

627
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:21,800
So pretty much what happened was
samurai or the Japanese were 

628
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,480
pretty much like isolated from 
the rest of the world out of 

629
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:25,960
choice. 
They just wanted to like kind of

630
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,800
do their own thing. 
On an island, right? 

631
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,760
And so, but then the United 
States of America was just like,

632
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,160
Nope, that's not happening. 
And so this guy named Matthew 

633
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:38,560
Perry pulls up to the shores of 
some Japanese island. 

634
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:40,160
When was this? 
What year? 

635
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,320
Like around what time? 
Around like the time that we're 

636
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,480
seeing. 
So like kind of Confederate 

637
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,040
time. 
What is this like 1870? 

638
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,040
1876 and 1877. 
Yeah. 

639
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:55,560
So, yeah, around that time. 
And I think the samurai are 

640
00:32:55,560 --> 00:33:02,680
actually like already kind of 
being cut down by by the people 

641
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,480
anyway. 
So Matthew Perry is this 

642
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,320
American and he shows up with 
four ships, 4 insane battleships

643
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,480
that the Japanese have never 
seen anything like. 

644
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,560
And so they're already like, 
what? 

645
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:18,400
And he says, hey, you have a few
months to agree to our terms or 

646
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,760
we will force you to, but we 
just want you all to start 

647
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:26,280
trading with us, you know? 
And so then he goes away. 

648
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,760
They're horrified because 
they're like, holy, We've never 

649
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,320
seen ships like that before. 
What? 

650
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,680
And then Matthew Perry comes 
back when he says he would with 

651
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,280
like 10 more ships. 
And they pretty much they're 

652
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,520
like, Yep, we'll do it. 
We agree not much of A battle. 

653
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:49,600
The samurai in this movie kind. 
I think they they're like a 

654
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:54,720
respected people absolutely, but
in reality, like the common 

655
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:59,080
people hated them because like 
samurai were like high class. 

656
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,440
So the samurai really just 
didn't want to lose their 

657
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,080
superior status. 
And. 

658
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:10,719
Also, I think samurai like 
could, if they felt insulted by 

659
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,760
the common folk, they could just
kill them with no, no 

660
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,920
consequences. 
And I think that so at this time

661
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:23,320
though, there's like, well, in 
real time, there was 200 years 

662
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,639
of peace and so the samurai just
essentially aren't needed 

663
00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:29,719
anymore. 
So they're like not being paid 

664
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,280
as much for being samurai. 
And the common folk, in the 

665
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,480
meantime, are like. 
Making money they're. 

666
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,360
Building all this, and then once
the United States shows up, they

667
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,320
kind of realize, like, OK, 
instead of isolating ourselves 

668
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,159
from the world, we need to learn
as much as we can, you know, 

669
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:51,360
from Western civilization. 
So they brought in like a lot of

670
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,280
people in the Japanese, like see
it. 

671
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,239
Today they. 
Very smart. 

672
00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,080
Very technologically advanced, 
yeah. 

673
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,840
Civilized, yeah. 
Civilization wise like. 

674
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,200
They advanced very, very quickly
and they did just that. 

675
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,960
Like back in this time they, I 
think what we were able to 

676
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,280
accomplish in like hundreds and 
hundreds and hundreds of years, 

677
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,520
they did it very quickly. 
Yeah. 

678
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:16,080
And you kind of show that 
because? 

679
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,120
That's sort of the theme of this
movie is how the samurai culture

680
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,760
is dying out to the modern 
world. 

681
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,200
They even show you that through 
the city because in that city 

682
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,600
they show up to whenever Tom 
Cruise rise into town with the 

683
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,880
guys to get dropped off. 
It still looks like an old 

684
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,400
original Japanese town. 
However, there's telephone lines

685
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,200
going through it, so you can see
that technology is starting to 

686
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,680
invade. 
You see natural way of the 

687
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,880
Japanese people. 
Yeah, you see white people. 

688
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,760
Just in the crowd as well. 
But like, it's just, it's kind 

689
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,560
of a Western modern society. 
The old, the old way. 

690
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:51,320
Is dying right? 
Or maybe getting invaded, yeah. 

691
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,120
So but like the. 
Samurai were feeling kind of 

692
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:59,040
annoyed that these common folk 
that were kind of below them, 

693
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,320
they're starting to make that 
money now because they just, 

694
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,200
they're advancing 
technologically. 

695
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,240
Businesses are kind of going 
through the roof because the 

696
00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:10,400
economy is literally just 
booming right now because we are

697
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:15,240
Japan is just advancing so much.
And so, but the samurai were 

698
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:19,680
like too honourable to join the 
common folk, or at least like it

699
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,960
was looked down upon for some, 
for somebody to be like, all 

700
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,080
right, I don't want to be a 
samurai. 

701
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:28,320
I want to like go build 
something or go learn how to 

702
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,200
build like a business of some 
sort. 

703
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,600
So that was happening. 
So that was like, really what 

704
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,040
was going on? 
It wasn't like a mass genocide 

705
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,560
of just like a peaceful people. 
Yeah, I I did see something 

706
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,080
that. 
Said the samurai. 

707
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,680
This has a very much idealized 
version of the samurai, but the 

708
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,720
Japanese people actually saw 
them as a little bit more 

709
00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:48,320
corrupted. 
They weren't these perfect 

710
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,840
warriors that were at peace and 
just the perfect kind of 

711
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:53,920
representation of Japanese 
culture. 

712
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,200
Like they were brutal. 
And, you know, they were 

713
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,640
obviously warriors. 
And when you're bred to be a 

714
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,400
warrior, you're going to be 
super aggressive, probably not 

715
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,960
going to be that moral cause 
your job is to kill. 

716
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:05,520
Yeah. 
And you see yourself. 

717
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,960
As better than everybody. 
So like in the movie, you see 

718
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:14,040
the Imperial soldiers beating up
on Kozmoto's Katsumoto. 

719
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,080
Katsumoto's son. 
And they cut off his ponytail in

720
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,360
the movie. 
Obviously, it looks horrible. 

721
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,120
And, you know, they just look 
like they're the bad guys. 

722
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,960
But like, these dudes have been,
you know, probably getting made 

723
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,720
fun of and beat up by the 
samurai for a long time. 

724
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,280
So like, maybe there's a little 
bit of payback there, you know, 

725
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,760
So just a little bit. 
A little bit. 

726
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,440
Also, Samurai did use guns. 
They did. 

727
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,200
Yes. 
They did in real life. 

728
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,800
They've been using them for like
200 years at this point. 

729
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,960
So that was like a. 
Creative liberty that I didn't 

730
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,440
quite understand that they had 
to take didn't have to do that. 

731
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,480
In fact, I think they could have
even shown the samurai not only 

732
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,640
using guns, but like they could 
have just been surprisingly 

733
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,240
better than the comic folk which
outnumbered them. 

734
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,960
But like the samurai are also 
way better at using guns and 

735
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,960
proficient with swords so like 
you could have used that rather 

736
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,360
than just the dumb idea of them 
being like like. 

737
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,520
We fight with honor. 
I see the reasoning for taking 

738
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,480
it. 
Out just to try to show the vast

739
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,440
differences in what's coming 
versus what was. 

740
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,680
Yeah, I did. 
Too, But yeah, this. 

741
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,960
Wouldn't, I mean, honestly, to 
keep that going, they could have

742
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,520
been using older guns as they 
probably would have been, and 

743
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,840
then the Gatling gun comes out 
and that fucking wipes them. 

744
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:36,440
I'm just thinking of. 
Like the actual Japanese in 2003

745
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,680
seeing this movie and they're 
like fucking Americans dude. 

746
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:40,800
Actually they loved it. 
This. 

747
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,640
This movie, I think it made more
money in Japan than it did in 

748
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,640
the States. 
OK. 

749
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,080
Well, OK, then I say incorrect. 
Nothing to say there's this kind

750
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,000
of. 
Hollywood. 

751
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,520
Well, they probably do. 
Appreciate the samurai being 

752
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,520
showed in like an honorable way.
It wasn't like they also like, 

753
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,880
besides kind of that scene of 
The Imperials beating up on him 

754
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:06,400
and cutting off his ponytail. 
You do see, like, a lot of 

755
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,000
respect for the culture. 
I also like, really, I'm just a 

756
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,640
big fan of the director going in
the direction of, like, all the 

757
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,240
Japanese people do talk to each 
other in Japanese. 

758
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:17,720
Yeah. 
Didn't have to do that. 

759
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,520
They could have all just been 
speaking English with accents. 

760
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,840
But I like that. 
I wish the emperor at the end 

761
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:24,000
when he was like. 
Talking to the people. 

762
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,920
When Tom Cruise is down there, 
he wish he would have spoken 

763
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,640
Japanese, not English. 
He's like final speech to the 

764
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,160
people. 
Yeah, that's true. 

765
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:31,640
But. 
There's this Hollywood. 

766
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,200
Cliche, it's kind of thing that 
they call it a white savior. 

767
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,440
There's been a bunch of movies 
like this where it like Dances 

768
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,000
with Wolves where there's like a
native people that are getting 

769
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000
threatened and about to get 
wiped out by the Western culture

770
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,520
in America, whatever the white 
people. 

771
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,280
And then there's one white guy 
that goes in and like, saves 

772
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,720
them, you know, like. 
That this is the white. 

773
00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,840
Savior is what they call this 
kind of cliche that happens in 

774
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,920
Hollywood. 
This is a similar type of thing,

775
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,840
but Edswick kind of helped. 
I think he kind of avoided it as

776
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,640
much as he could because it's 
really about the samurai 

777
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,440
changing Nathan Tom Cruise's 
character. 

778
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:08,640
Like Tom Cruise doesn't save 
them. 

779
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,480
I think the one scene that you. 
Could say that's kind of like 

780
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,680
that Cliche is whenever he's, 
you know, holding the sword up 

781
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,520
and it's like about their way 
and everything and he kind of 

782
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,880
shows them that this is the 
right way. 

783
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,120
But that's really, that's really
the the way of the. 

784
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,960
Samurai like lives on. 
Yes, I think that's probably 

785
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:28,880
why. 
The Japanese people liked it 

786
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,840
because it wasn't as much of 
that white saviour type of movie

787
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:33,440
I like. 
Yeah, I like that. 

788
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:34,520
Take. 
That's good. 

789
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:40,520
It makes sense, Yeah. 
Because at one point, Katsumoto 

790
00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:43,360
Yeah. 
Let's just keep it on the. 

791
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,480
Screen Katsumoto tells him he 
was like the way of the samurai 

792
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:52,600
is not necessary anymore. 
And Nathan at this point has 

793
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,840
seen like what a western battle 
looks like and how just awful it

794
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,200
is and how much war has just 
like essentially ruined him, his

795
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,040
spirit as a man. 
And he says necessary. 

796
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:08,640
It's never been more necessary, 
you know, for at least like. 

797
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:12,000
Like honor and. 
Discipline. 

798
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,320
And discipline, yeah. 
Like it's. 

799
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,520
It literally saved my life. 
Yeah. 

800
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,440
You know, So like, this needs to
be taught to people. 

801
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,240
This needs to be carried on in 
some way. 

802
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:22,760
So I like that. 
Yeah. 

803
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,240
Here's one thought that I had 
about. 

804
00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:28,400
The ending that I was critiquing
what what how Tom Cruise like 

805
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:32,400
bows out in the Emperor and then
he says I'll take my own life. 

806
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,160
I'll happily take my own life. 
It's like we're not a samurai 

807
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:36,480
really. 
Like, why would why are you just

808
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,200
giving into this when you just 
you literally just try to stop 

809
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,080
Katsumoto from doing it. 
But then maybe he just changed 

810
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,720
his mind. 
Whatever my argument for it 

811
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:44,920
though, I'm I'm starting to get 
in your. 

812
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,000
Head now the argument for it 
though. 

813
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,920
Would be that. 
He probably knew the Emperor. 

814
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,240
Wouldn't let him do that. 
So it's more he's saying that as

815
00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:59,320
more of a reminder of the way. 
Like maybe he doesn't like 

816
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,280
literally mean that, but he's 
saying it as like a jab to just 

817
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,760
remind the emperor of like what 
it's about. 

818
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,160
If this white dude's willing to 
do this, you're and you're not, 

819
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,440
that's a huge problem. 
Like if I'm born, if I came into

820
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,800
the way as a new man, white man,
not even from this culture, but 

821
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,280
still embedded myself into it 
and you're a part of this 

822
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,280
culture and didn't. 
He's kind of like giving him a 

823
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,440
shot just to remind him, kind of
like what Katsumoto says to the 

824
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,000
emperor's like, excuse me, I'm 
sorry for having to talk to you 

825
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,280
like a teacher, but have you 
forgotten your people's way? 

826
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:26,640
He says something like that. 
Yeah. 

827
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,440
And so I think Tom Cruise maybe 
is sort of talking to him as a 

828
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,520
teacher in that moment. 
Well, and there's also. 

829
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:36,800
Kind of it just shows how 
Nathan, his character, has 

830
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:41,480
changed so much because Nathan 
has been wanting to die since 

831
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,080
you see him in the beginning of 
the movie. 

832
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:49,360
And Katsumoto, like, also wants 
to die, but for the right 

833
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,200
reason, for honor. 
He says it multiple times, like,

834
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,480
if the emperor wishes for me to 
die, all he has to do is tell me

835
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,520
to, like, I will die. 
And he keeps, like, kind of 

836
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,440
saying like, no, like, he died a
good death. 

837
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,520
Yeah, honorable, dying on the 
battlefield, just all of these 

838
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,400
things. 
So for Nathan. 

839
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,400
But Nathan sees it differently. 
He just sees death putting him 

840
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:16,400
out of his misery. 
Like his time on earth sucks. 

841
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,960
He just wants to die. 
He just want, you know, he's 

842
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,720
ready for it to end. 
And Katsumoto is like, no life 

843
00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:25,520
is precious, but when your time 
comes, you should see it as just

844
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:29,600
that, just OK, this is a great 
life that I lived and, you know,

845
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:34,680
no regrets, all that. 
So him offering his life to the 

846
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:38,360
emperor, I think it's just kind 
of him showing like I will. 

847
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,680
Appreciate all my. 
Days now, and I appreciate 

848
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,720
everything that I've learned. 
But if now is my time, then now 

849
00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:44,760
is my time. 
Yeah. 

850
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,760
OK, that made me. 
Think now maybe the reason why 

851
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,480
they had Nathan live in the end 
is really because if he would 

852
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,040
have died, that would have 
fulfilled what he wanted the 

853
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:52,320
entire time. 
And that doesn't show his 

854
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,960
change. 
Yeah, because it you could have 

855
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:56,840
had the thought maybe when he 
goes into battles like, oh, he 

856
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:58,880
got killed, he just did this 
because he just wanted to die. 

857
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,040
So he joined the samurai to go 
fight. 

858
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,120
You know, that wouldn't really 
be shown, but that could be like

859
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:08,040
a little subtextual thing you 
can maybe infer and like cop 

860
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,320
out. 
I see, I see that take. 

861
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:11,920
All the way. 
I like it. 

862
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:16,440
I just think it was more it 
would have been more redeeming 

863
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,400
for him to die with a tribe 
rather than killing it and 

864
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:20,480
exterminating it. 
Yeah. 

865
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:21,880
Do you wish she kind of. 
I would do wish she died. 

866
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:23,920
Yeah, Nice. 
There you go. 

867
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,880
Would have been better would. 
Have been better now here's 

868
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:28,520
another thing that could have 
happened bad if they would have 

869
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,800
had him die is that then the 
emperor would like had because 

870
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,040
he's the main character you want
to see a closure about his 

871
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,320
character it's all about him and
his character works and then at 

872
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,600
the end they would have to say 
something about him like 

873
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,160
honoring him then that would 
have been the white savior he's 

874
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,760
like we honored the. 
White man for saving. 

875
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,920
Us from this samurai way, you 
know, like committing to our 

876
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,320
ways. 
So that could have been a issue 

877
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,160
there maybe. 
But yeah, they make a statue of 

878
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:52,880
Tom. 
Cruise. 

879
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,160
Yeah, Tom Cruise would. 
Probably like. 

880
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,680
Yeah, he should probably. 
Nathan should probably get a 

881
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:59,080
statue. 
Yeah, they probably love him. 

882
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,600
He wants. 
A Rocky Balboa statue in Japan. 

883
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,000
Oh boy. 
All right, here's a crazy. 

884
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:11,520
Story from this movie. 
So I think it's the first battle

885
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,080
and I don't think we actually 
see it in the movie. 

886
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:18,480
However, there's a scene they 
filmed where Nathan and what's 

887
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,720
and Yujio are barreling toward 
each other on horses. 

888
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:28,080
And so in this scene, Yujio 
supposed to swing his sword and 

889
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,240
Tom Cruise horse are handing a 
duck and then avoid the hit. 

890
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:32,600
That's how he survives that 
battle. 

891
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,480
However, when they filmed it, 
when they started running, they 

892
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,040
were on mechanical horses as 
they were running toward each 

893
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:41,440
other, and Tom Cruise's 
mechanical horse malfunctioned 

894
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:46,600
and didn't duck on time. 
And hold on. 

895
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,080
Let's. 
Let's get this name right. 

896
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:51,520
Yujio. 
Yeah. 

897
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,840
But his actor's. 
Name Hiroyuki. 

898
00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:58,200
Hiroyuki Donata, I believe how 
you say it. 

899
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:06,440
Here Here dude got no clue I'm. 
Just as bad as Colonel Bagley. 

900
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,800
The Hiroyuki Sonata. 
Defense I couldn't get. 

901
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,920
Colonel Bagley's name right 
though either so so Hiroyuki. 

902
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,280
Sonata. 
He's a martial artist. 

903
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,080
He's trained that he's a big. 
They call him actually the Tom 

904
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,320
Cruise of Japan. 
Not even kidding. 

905
00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:23,560
They were just pretty sick. 
The Japanese people or maybe the

906
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:27,400
studios or whoever had this 
thought, thought it was wrong 

907
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,240
that he wouldn't be the emperor 
because he's he's such a popular

908
00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:33,320
star in Japan, but he still. 
Signed on as a. 

909
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,080
Side character to the emperor as
as they kind of showed a sign of

910
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:38,480
respect. 
Like I want him to be the 

911
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:39,720
emperor. 
Think it's a good pick 

912
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,280
regardless. 
So he's a skilled martial 

913
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,840
artist, athlete, whatever. 
And so during that scene when 

914
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,440
Tom Cruise's horse malfunction, 
he was already in full swing. 

915
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:51,640
Now they're not. 
They're not using sharp swords. 

916
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,240
It's a dull sword, but still a 
full swing for acting from a 

917
00:46:55,240 --> 00:46:57,400
martial arts guy that knows how 
to make it look real and is 

918
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,640
doing it real. 
That would have sliced Tom 

919
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,080
Cruise's face guaranteed and is 
heading straight for his 

920
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,200
straight for his face. 
They say neck or face, we don't 

921
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:06,520
really know. 
It's just a story here. 

922
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,520
But he swung and they said 
because of the mechanical bull 

923
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:10,720
stop and he's such a skilled 
guy. 

924
00:47:10,720 --> 00:47:13,600
He stopped literally like an 
inch from his face, full swing 

925
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,720
and like paused and stopped 
right in front of his face like 

926
00:47:15,720 --> 00:47:18,440
a real samurai. 
And it saved Tom Cruise's face 

927
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,160
would have gotten fucking 
chopped, maybe even killed. 

928
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,120
I wonder what? 
Tom Cruise's reaction would have

929
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,680
been to that, so they they asked
him about it. 

930
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,240
Because the story goes is that 
it was about to chop off his 

931
00:47:30,240 --> 00:47:32,440
head. 
You know, they're going to pump 

932
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,800
up the story a bit, right? 
And so. 

933
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,400
When they told. 
Tom Cruise about her, He 

934
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,000
commented on it. 
He started laughing. 

935
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:39,880
He's like my neck. 
He's like, it wasn't going to be

936
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,040
my neck. 
He's like, right inches from my 

937
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:43,600
nose, like it's about to hit my 
face. 

938
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:47,280
Appreciate that, Tom. 
Yeah. 

939
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,440
He's like, that's funny. 
It wasn't my nose, come on. 

940
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,120
It wasn't my neck, come on. 
It was like, really about my 

941
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:52,200
nose. 
I'm just saying. 

942
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,240
Does Tom? 
Cruise appreciate a good scar 

943
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:57,640
across the face or does Tom 
Cruise hate a scar across the 

944
00:47:57,640 --> 00:47:58,920
face? 
He needs a picture. 

945
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,960
Picture perfect face for all the
roles. 

946
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,200
He fixed that in makeup though. 
Not a scar. 

947
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:04,840
I don't know if he can. 
Do. 

948
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:09,520
I mean, yeah, you could, but now
you want the scars to be 

949
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,120
artificial for your role. 
I know. 

950
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,680
I'm just saying, like, does Tom 
Cruise get a scar and he's like,

951
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,080
yeah, Hollywood baby, we're 
making a movie? 

952
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:21,160
Or is he like, how a face? 
God, no, probably that. 

953
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:22,600
OK. 
Hollywood. 

954
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:23,640
Actor. 
They need perfect faces. 

955
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,480
For every role. 
But if he plays a guy that's not

956
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,680
a war veteran, you got to 
explain the scar now or he 

957
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,600
doesn't get cast. 
Would have been OK for. 

958
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,720
Ethan Hunt, True. 
It is. 

959
00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:37,800
Interesting to see like Tom 
Cruise played like so many 

960
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,360
dramatic roles and then he did 
just go Mission Impossible. 

961
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:42,400
It wouldn't have been good for 
Les. 

962
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,800
Grossman. 
Makeup they did. 

963
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,480
They already had done their 
makeup. 

964
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:52,240
Fat face. 
Yeah, yeah, man, let me. 

965
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,240
This is so so. 
I was watching the behind some 

966
00:48:56,240 --> 00:49:00,120
behind the scenes footage of 
this and you will hear the, like

967
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,360
set designer talking about how 
they really made this thing 

968
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,720
peaceful. 
And they love how the buildings 

969
00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:08,520
are structured within the valley
to like really sculpt the land, 

970
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,600
you know, talking really how 
it's meaningful when you hear 

971
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,360
Tom Cruise talking about working
with the characters and the 

972
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,120
actors and how beautiful it was.
And then it will cut to like the

973
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,840
guys that are like the the the 
gun prop guys. 

974
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:19,760
And they're like, it's just a 
bunch of country boys. 

975
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:21,880
And they're like, yeah, we got 
like 150 guns. 

976
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,880
We got like 150 rubber guns. 
We got ninja stars. 

977
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:25,960
Really. 
Yes. 

978
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,040
Can we throw this video up? 
Because that, that's what I'm 

979
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,760
talking about. 
That's the beauty of the film 

980
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,000
industry. 
I mean, you throw in everybody 

981
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,800
together, I won't be able to 
pull it. 

982
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,400
Because it's a it's like a long 
ass video and like to get the 

983
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,840
full game but. 
If you watch the behind. 

984
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:43,720
The scenes footage, you'll hear 
like all these beautiful things 

985
00:49:43,720 --> 00:49:46,400
about how the theme and the 
beauty of the movie and the 

986
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,440
story is so deep and it just 
will cut to the behind to the 

987
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,720
prop guys. 
Like we got so many fucking 

988
00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:54,880
guns. 
It's the best. 

989
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,040
There's a bunch of country boys 
so high about their ninja stars.

990
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:01,120
They gave us a bunch we got. 30 
cannons in here, he's like, we 

991
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:02,120
got real cannons. 
There's actually. 

992
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,440
A real fire in cannons. 
He's like, yeah, they're just 

993
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,880
describing all their guns. 
Nothing about the meaning of the

994
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:09,720
movie, just how badass their 
arsenal is. 

995
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:10,960
That's what. 
That's what I'm. 

996
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,040
Talking about and you know what,
because they're they're that's 

997
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:17,160
perfect though, because this 
movie like, let me tell you 

998
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,480
this. 
Obviously, like I appreciate the

999
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,440
fighting scenes all of that, 
because it's makes for a Great 

1000
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,160
War movie and I think they do a 
really good job of showing it. 

1001
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:32,080
I think it looks great. 
I'll say this, though, I could 

1002
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:36,760
have watched 10 hours of Tom 
Cruise just living peacefully 

1003
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,120
with the samurai. 
I swear to God, I never wanted 

1004
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,440
to leave. 
In fact, and I not kidding when 

1005
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:47,400
I say this last yesterday I 
watched it and there's like a 

1006
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,120
storm on the horizon. 
But like I still, I, I could 

1007
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:51,720
tell that I had like a good 
hour. 

1008
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:56,880
I was just living in peace and 
like in this and I paused the 

1009
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,640
movie because I knew like I it's
about to get bad at some point. 

1010
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,320
I paused it. 
I was like. 

1011
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:05,920
No Phone? 
No. 

1012
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:11,440
Distractions I just took foxy 
for like this really nice walk. 

1013
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:15,640
It was it felt really good and 
like I just I turn, I turn my 

1014
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:21,600
phone on DND and just no music, 
no nothing, just listen to like 

1015
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,440
the wind, the Thunder, just the 
wind. 

1016
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,840
I could feel the storm. 
And then like, I got back to my 

1017
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:31,560
place and I was like, I just was
so responsible. 

1018
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:35,520
I like, did the dishes, cleaned 
my room, cleaned my bathroom, 

1019
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:37,880
did laundry. 
That's the gayest way to watch 

1020
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,160
The Last Samurai. 
All all in. 

1021
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,280
Silence. 
I took a cold shower because I 

1022
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,440
was like samurai. 
I don't take a shower bro. 

1023
00:51:45,240 --> 00:51:48,520
And. 
Then, like, proceeded to watch 

1024
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,920
the end of the movie, and, yeah,
that's hilarious. 

1025
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,240
I forgot what my point was. 
Oh, yeah. 

1026
00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:58,400
Tom Cruise just living in peace 
and harmony with the samurai. 

1027
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:04,800
Tom Cruise somehow bringing 
baseball into his characters. 

1028
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:09,840
Somehow you get Tom Cruise. 
Yeah. 

1029
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:13,840
Bringing baseball. 
To the samurai, I just well 

1030
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:17,320
done, of course. 
And it not that's not that's 

1031
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,800
literally not a knock. 
I just I think that's so 

1032
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:21,680
hilarious. 
Tom Cruise was like. 

1033
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:27,000
He should play baseball, no? 
Tom, he should, yeah. 

1034
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,520
The director being like. 
No, Tom, like no more. 

1035
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,040
No baseball in The Last Samurai.
He's like, you're wrong. 

1036
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,120
And there should be, there 
should be baseball. 

1037
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,680
They'd love it. 
Yeah, everybody loves baseball. 

1038
00:52:40,240 --> 00:52:42,920
So love that. 
Love it. 

1039
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,920
There's a, there's a small 
detail, but a significant 

1040
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:50,880
detail. 
When they're taking Tom Cruise 

1041
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:54,200
into the town, all the samurai 
riding in a town with them, They

1042
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,840
don't have Nathan riding in the 
middle of them like they're 

1043
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,320
transporting him. 
He rides on the side of them 

1044
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:01,840
alongside them. 
So he's among them. 

1045
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,200
You know, he, I think that's why
the, what's his name? 

1046
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,200
The freaking photographer guy. 
The translator. 

1047
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:11,040
I think that's probably why 
he's. 

1048
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,360
Like smiling and happy to see 
him because it's like, oh, 

1049
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:14,600
you're not a part of these 
people. 

1050
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,440
I'm so interested to probably 
just write a book about you 

1051
00:53:17,720 --> 00:53:20,200
because I'm about to do that. 
Yeah, I think that. 

1052
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:24,480
Also is why he's smiling, he 
sees him like damn, he is alive.

1053
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:25,720
Like everybody thought he was 
dead. 

1054
00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:27,880
But he's not only alive, he's a 
samurai. 

1055
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,040
This guy, he's got some. 
Bad ass life. 

1056
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:32,880
Yeah, yeah. 
But it's just cool that they 

1057
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:34,320
have him. 
You know, they, because they put

1058
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,560
him in the middle, He's like, 
he's a prisoner and they're 

1059
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:38,440
dropping off their prisoner. 
But at this point, he's no 

1060
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,080
longer a prisoner. 
He's among them. 

1061
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:41,800
He's became a samurai, 
essentially. 

1062
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:43,400
Yeah. 
So he rides alongside him and 

1063
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:44,800
they just, like, leave him 
there, like, right. 

1064
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:46,520
See you later. 
They also they don't put him in 

1065
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,360
the. 
Front, which I like that, like 

1066
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:52,560
that you see the Samurai and 
then like on the third shot I 

1067
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,600
think is when you see Tom Cruise
again kind of suggesting that. 

1068
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:57,240
He is with the he is with the 
samurai. 

1069
00:53:57,240 --> 00:53:59,560
Yeah, he's no better than them. 
He's just one of them. 

1070
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:03,360
Yeah, yeah, I liked it. 
I I, I loved the tone of it, 

1071
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:08,120
which is why not the biggest fan
of them bowing to kind of him at

1072
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,080
the end. 
No, that's the Katamoto it. 

1073
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:14,240
Is it is. 
It is, but I bet when Tom Cruise

1074
00:54:14,240 --> 00:54:19,080
was real life sitting there and 
they were all bound to him, I 

1075
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,280
bet he was like, yeah, this this
movie's going to sell. 

1076
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:23,840
This movie's going to make a lot
of money. 

1077
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,280
I'm I'm the center of it. 
Yeah, bro, he's on an. 

1078
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:29,520
Insane run. 
Insane run this time. 

1079
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:32,400
I know, I know. 
Bangers at the bangers, I don't 

1080
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:33,560
mean. 
To talk shit about Tom. 

1081
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:36,120
Cruise. 
I don't even think I am think, I

1082
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:37,560
don't think I'm talking shit 
about Tom Cruise. 

1083
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:38,760
Yeah, it's funny. 
It's funny. 

1084
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,200
We're just, yeah, we're. 
Just goofing around, just 

1085
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:42,480
joshing. 
Yeah, I'm just. 

1086
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:44,960
Joshing everybody. 
Relax, Love Tom Cruise. 

1087
00:54:47,240 --> 00:54:49,440
Should we rate The Last Samurai?
Let's do it. 

1088
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:50,920
All right. 
What? 

1089
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,880
Do you have For the Last Samurai
all right? 

1090
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:58,240
For The Last Samurai. 
We'll start from the top, acting

1091
00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:00,960
9 out of 10. 
Great performances from 

1092
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:02,280
everybody. 
No 10 out of 10. 

1093
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:04,560
No 10 out of 10, just 9. 
Out of 10, why not? 

1094
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,560
Just 9. 
Out there instead, this one's a 

1095
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:11,560
nine out of 10 riding 7 out of 
10. 

1096
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,280
Explain myself and clearly on 
that. 

1097
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:18,760
Also, another thing that I 
forgot to mention, I think it 

1098
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,400
makes it kind of funny. 
I don't think it's necessarily 

1099
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:26,680
bad riding, but like at the 
beginning his boss firing him 

1100
00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:29,960
before he goes out on stage to 
give his last speech. 

1101
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,400
Horrible move. 
That's just bad. 

1102
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,520
Business. 
That's just a bad businessman in

1103
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:41,720
like, hey to my clearly 
traumatized hammered. 

1104
00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:44,880
You know war. 
Warrior. 

1105
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,800
Yeah, Veteran that has clearly 
killed people. 

1106
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:51,600
He's really good with a gun. 
You're fired before you go and 

1107
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,160
give your last speech. 
Just bad business. 

1108
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:55,840
Now go outperform bitch. 
Yeah. 

1109
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:56,760
Now go out there. 
You're. 

1110
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:58,360
Fired though. 
But go out there, you have 

1111
00:55:58,360 --> 00:55:59,400
nothing to lose. 
He has. 

1112
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,120
Nothing to lose, Yeah, just bad 
business. 

1113
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,200
Riding 7 out of 10, editing 9 
out of 10. 

1114
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:08,320
I think it's great. 
Fight scenes awesome. 

1115
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,760
I also just think like the 
feeling of the movie, like I 

1116
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,560
said, like the peace and 
prosperous times. 

1117
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:18,320
Not often in a war movie. 
Is that what like kind of keeps 

1118
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:21,520
me intrigued in the story? 
But I, and I think that's kind 

1119
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:24,520
of a risky thing that they do 
with this movie is like, you do 

1120
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:26,600
get to just watch him in 
peacetime, which is not 

1121
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:30,640
something that you're expecting 
out of a samurai war movie. 

1122
00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:35,880
But they do it really well. 
And I, I think it, it just looks

1123
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,560
great. 
And I think it still keeps the 

1124
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:42,200
audience into the movie, into 
the story, 'cause they're he's 

1125
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:46,080
with samurai living in peace for
like a good chunk of the movie. 

1126
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,240
Yeah, yeah. 
So that's I think. 

1127
00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:51,840
That's risky, but respect. 
Respect. 

1128
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:54,640
Yeah. 
So good on them. 

1129
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:57,400
Cinematography, like I said, 
nothing special. 

1130
00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,160
I think it's solid, though. 
There's some some beautiful 

1131
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:04,640
shots and they 7 out of 10, you 
know, it's I think it's just 

1132
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:08,880
overall, like very solid, but 
nothing that really just stands 

1133
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:11,240
out to me. 
And then enjoyability. 8 out of 

1134
00:57:11,240 --> 00:57:13,240
10. 
I I really, really like this 

1135
00:57:13,240 --> 00:57:14,800
movie. 
I really do. 

1136
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:18,480
It's a good movie. 
So it's a 8 out of 10. 

1137
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,720
It's a very solid movie. 
Nice. 

1138
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,440
I have. 
Acting 10 out of 10 I think 

1139
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,000
everybody brought it. 
Great performances, beautiful 

1140
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,520
writing. 8.5 out of 10 again 
knocked it for that ending. 

1141
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:32,280
A little corny, a little bit 
corny. 

1142
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:35,360
Editing 10 out of 10 I think the
editing really shines through 

1143
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:38,160
with the like battle scenes that
kind of ties into cinematography

1144
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:39,880
as well. 
But like you it's chaotic. 

1145
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,040
However you can see the action 
still, like I love the shot 

1146
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,640
whenever they're running like 
the the cameras still when you 

1147
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:49,160
see the people on the ground 
battling and the horses are just

1148
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:51,840
like flying by. 
It's like blurry within the the 

1149
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:53,280
focus subject, which is just 
cool. 

1150
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,520
And so cinematography 9 out of 
10 and then enjoyability 10 out 

1151
00:57:57,520 --> 00:57:59,680
of 10. 
I could watch this movie 

1152
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,120
whenever nice. 
So my. 

1153
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:06,440
Total score for the. 
Last Samurai is a 9.50, yeah. 

1154
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,680
Respect. 
I kind of forget how much I like

1155
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:12,040
Tom Cruise. 
You forget. 

1156
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:13,600
Every time you watch a movie. 
You're like, he's fucking the 

1157
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:17,920
man. 
Yeah, I mean, you know, he's big

1158
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,640
deal and you know, the Mission 
Impossible movies, they're not 

1159
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:25,360
like quite my thing, except for 
quite except for Fallout not. 

1160
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:27,640
Quite my tempo. 
Fallout's quite your. 

1161
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:30,000
Tempo. 
Remember that one Fallout? 

1162
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:31,400
That was the second one? 
No, no, no. 

1163
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,520
Third one. 
The 6th 1. 

1164
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:35,240
It's good. 
Yeah. 

1165
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,520
No, no, no. 
You don't remember, but me and 

1166
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:41,240
you both are like that is 
clearly the best one I've ever 

1167
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:42,360
seen. 
OK. 

1168
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:46,600
I'm still, I think at that point
I'd kind of lost my mind. 

1169
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:48,000
Henry. 
Henry Cavill, No. 

1170
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:49,800
No, no, I know which one it is. 
And it was awesome. 

1171
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:51,560
You're right. 
It's awesome. 

1172
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,600
But the second and third one, 
those are, those are the ones 

1173
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,360
that I remember, yeah. 
I. 

1174
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:03,400
Will I will bleed for the flag 
to stay red? 

1175
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:06,840
It's like one of the quotes. 
Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. 

1176
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:11,840
Anyways. 
Wrote something because it also.

1177
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:16,320
Yeah, a haiku, which, you know, 
I'm just a dumb American. 

1178
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,680
So when I think like, oh, it's 
the Japanese and he's writing a 

1179
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:21,560
poem, I bet it's a haiku. 
No, it's not. 

1180
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,680
But I wrote a haiku about this 
movie. 

1181
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:27,040
Yeah. 
What is a haiku? 

1182
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:31,680
711 Seven no haiku is. 575 
that's a mess that's. 

1183
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:33,640
What I meant I got the numbers 
wrong. 

1184
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:35,160
Yeah, yeah. 
That's, that's. 

1185
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:40,280
What the haiku is from Japan? 
And so whenever Katsumoto 

1186
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:44,360
delivers his last line, I was 
like, it's not a haiku. 

1187
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:47,320
I never actually said it was the
last line. 

1188
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:50,000
You just were like, there's the 
last line I think. 

1189
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,360
It's definitely what they carve 
in the sword. 

1190
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:53,800
It's. 
Definitely the last line of his.

1191
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:55,720
Poem. 
He's been trying to figure out 

1192
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:59,320
the last line of the poem and 
then Nathan says what does it 

1193
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,480
mean? 
And then it rhymes with the 

1194
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:03,720
former. 
Line. 

1195
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:06,160
It's the last line of the poem, 
no doubt. 

1196
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:07,960
Do you think they just left that
open-ended? 

1197
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:09,600
All right, What's your what's 
your poem? 

1198
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:15,680
A tiger roars. 
Loud Tom Cruise is now Samurai. 

1199
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,000
Tom Cruise is. 
Tiger that's. 

1200
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:27,080
What you came up with bro? 
Are you laughing at me? 

1201
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,920
Only it's that was pretty good 
time out, time out. 

1202
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:34,120
You don't want me to laugh at 
Tom Cruise, is Tiger. 

1203
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:38,520
You're telling me that is peak 
poetry right there. 

1204
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:39,840
Do we need to? 
I mean. 

1205
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:47,120
Let's count it out. 
A tiger roars loud 5 syllables. 

1206
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:54,680
Tom Cruise is now samurai, 
Samurai, samurai. 

1207
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,000
Sure. 
Three, depends on how you say 

1208
01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:58,840
it. 
Seven, for the sake of haiku, 

1209
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:05,320
Tom Cruise is Tiger. 
Tiger's one syllable. 

1210
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:08,360
No, it's not. 
OK. 

1211
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,160
And. 
So we wrapped that up real 

1212
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:11,880
quick. 
Maybe you? 

1213
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,880
Don't like my haiku? 
But you need to go back to 

1214
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:17,600
school. 
I remembered. 

1215
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:21,680
Holy shit dude. 
Live on the podcast and in the 

1216
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,200
midst of this conversation, you 
can't even edit it out. 

1217
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:27,280
It's OK, I edit it out. 
The poems never seen the light 

1218
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:28,800
of day. 
Oh no, my phone. 

1219
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:30,320
My. 
Haiku has to see the light of 

1220
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:32,440
day. 
Wow, Tiger. 

1221
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:34,960
One syllable. 
Tiger by Kade Harvey. 

1222
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:38,960
Oh God, we got that. 
Tom Cruise is Tiger. 

1223
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,080
I'm glad you picked the last. 
Samurai. 

1224
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:44,520
Wow, all of that to get that 
beautiful. 

1225
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:45,800
All right. 
Thank you guys for listening 

1226
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:47,080
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1227
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:49,480
Samurai, let us know what you 
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1228
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:51,480
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1229
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:53,440
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1230
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,000
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