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Originally Posted by noodle
So, with what he just said there, it kinda confirms that Tom Cruise had become a Samurai. As he was the only one living, he was The Last Samurai!
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Okay.
I've seen the movie a few times, but of course my memory is not perfect. I suppose I should convert to Islam and it'd improve! (you have no idea)
Samurai, as a title, I think is less a blood right as it is an honor acceptance.
If you read a lot about the Samurai, you come to see personal aspects are the defining aspect above tradition and blood line.
Samurai, really, was the Way of the Warrior; Bushido. The real honor in the true Way was finding a fighter who was willing to place predetermined resolution and acception of death above the supposed virtue of living onwards through self defence.
In the movie, The Last Samurai, the end result was a perfectly willing fighter who was willing to take to the grave what he viewed as perfection; no compromise, no fault; the perfect ideal of a Warrior.
I really care little for what others might say about the movie, for they are racist and missed the story entirely; that movie was a very good attempt to highlight what I see as the perfect Way of life (PBUI).
Skin color is the most complete irrelevant thing when it comes to Samurai; loyalty, honor, courage,
predetermination (where does ethnicity come in? it comes through jealousy or ignorance).