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In Reply to: Asia covers about 30 percent with a total population that's more than 50 percent of the world... posted by saltyflies on July 14, 2005 at 10:37:08:
So the "actual" Samurai trained over generations of families for centuries.... and they pick some guy like Tom Cruise. Sorry, no way. I didn't think before renting that HE was going to BE the last Samurai. Probably would have saved myself a few hours of anguish if I would have known.
I think with Tom's money he could have chosen a more realistic storyline for his $20,000,000 check that year. Maybe it's this willingness to portray any role so long as the check's in the bank, regardless of a poor story, that makes some people not like him so. I would have passed and moved on to other offers (there are other offers, right?). :)
Follow Ups:
there really was a "foreign" samurai, but he was an Englishman, not the Civil War veteran Tom Cruise portrays
Japanese warlords used Dutch mercenaries in some of their campaigns too
Unimpressed with this film, but I did like Tom Cruise in Michael Mann's "Collateral"
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