Posted on 04/03/2021 3:19:32 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
At 1:43 "Lady Asano is like her father. She will Make Ako Great Again."
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Is this the Keanu flick?
Yeah. Were fans of the movie the ones who started the red hat thing?
My adult (aged: 30) was visiting her mom and I and we were flipping through the stations when we noticed the opening of “The Demolition Man”. She likes Sandra Bullock so we watched it. Her first time my second or third.
Since I haven’t seen it in 10 or 15 years, I was amazed how much of the future this flick got RIGHT.
Plus it is really funny.
https://www.amazon.com/Demolition-Man-Sylvester-Stallone/dp/B001AIY58O
Red hat thing?...
Ironically, Kevin Kostner’s Water World got everything wrong, but it’s coming! In just 12 more years! Wait and see.
MAGA, you know.
Got ya. I was trying to think of Keanu and a red hat...
I always felt the Three Shells mocked Muslims with the three rocks to wipe with...
There is a 1941 Japanese “The 47 Ronin” sub-titled in English. Of course the then current war overtones (in China) would have to have filtered down into the film. It is on Youtube and can be downloaded with proper firefox extension.
” ..1941 Japanese [film] ‘The 47 Ronin’...”
I’ve seen it. Most of the action (i.e. fights) take place off-screen, with the on-screen characters learning about them via letters and messages.
It is not Kurasawa.
On was the other hand, the Keanu Reeves (2013) version is just silly. Witches, and dragons, and demons, oh my! And Reeves as a half-breed samurai? Nothing to do with the Classic Japanese epic at all.
One of the best versions of the story with Morgan Freeman (!?!) as the unfortunate rural daimo Ako, But the setting was changed to some vague, medieval, eastern European/Byzantine Empire (to justify the decidedly diverse international cast?). It was still closer to the original than the 2013 movie.
I absolutely love that movie. Love it!
“Chushingura” (The Loyal 47 Retainers) (1962) is the definitive version. 207 minutes long, and worth every one.
Where can we view it?
IMO, it's well worth the cost of the DVD.
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