• Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        I’ve seen it, I’m just making a point that Keanu is actually half Japanese so he should be able to play a character of somewhat Asian descent without complaint, especially when the character he played in 47 Ronin was only half Japanese and all the characters shit on his character because of that. It wasn’t a ground breaking movie and there are plenty of reasons to shit on it, but the race card isn’t one of them.

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            6 months ago

            He was already retired from the military in the movie, he went over as a mercenary to train the Japanese how to use guns more effectively.

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                  6 months ago

                  We were originally talking about this “Keanu is half Japanese. Tom Cruise as the Last Samurai though…” You got off track.

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                    6 months ago

                    Yes, Keanu is half Japanese, so him playing a half Japanese character in a movie makes sense. Tom Cruise being associated with the last Samurai of the shogun era makes no sense, this is Chewbacca, Chewbacca is a wookie, why would he hang out on the planet Endor with a bunch of ewoks? It makes no sense.