Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-05-07 17:44:47 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 0632CFE89C2082A69E73D9540F275A2656CCEB1718D5B260665529D1BA73FDE7
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Original Note:
People did complain about a white American being the main character in a Japanese story. https://screenrant.com/last-samurai-movie-white-savior-backlash-ken-watanabe/ https://www.quora.com/Which-racist-films-should-be-banned-The-Last-Samurai-2003-is-a-prime-example-of-a-white-savior-film-Lets-start-a-list https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/10k9at/the_last_samurai_massively_racist_or_an_insight/ But Cruise’s character, Nathan Algren, is not an ethnic Japanese Samurai as the tweet implies. Algren is an American who gets captured by the Japanese Samurais and joins them. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/plotsummary/
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