The Last Samurai

Just came back from my Wednesday movie group. Today it is The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise. I don't know what Tom Cruise is good at. He has the same look that he used since Top Gun (the "I-will-not-be-defeated" look). Same charm (basically none). Etc etc. It's just that some girls adore him and suddenly he's the best paid actor. Anyway, I came to see Billy Connolly and got to see 15 minutes of him before the story focuses on Tom Cruise.


Anyway, Tom Cruise is Captain Nathan Algren, a soldier with ideals but with a selfish arrogant boss (hey, aren't we all like Algren?). He gets paid tonloads to train the Japanese army so they can take on the Samurai led by Katsumodo. In battle, Algren was caught by Katsumodo and is taken as prisoner. In this village he learns what a samurai means and bla bla bla you can guess the rest.

I just have some questions during the movie:
* How did Algren manages to keep his hair the same like that troughout the movie? Is there a Tony & Guy in that village?
* How did Katsumodo learn how to speak English? He's a samurai, lives in a village and it's 1876!
* Where the hell did Katsumodo's son learned to say "Jolly good"? Was Billy Connolly still around?
* How did Algren learn Japanese so fast? In the beginning of winter he was learning words, at the end of winter (give or take 4 months later) he was yapping away in Japanese! I've been living here for 4 years and I still can't yap away in French.
* The winter in that village up the mountain doesn't look cold, does it?
* The army was already fighting Katsumodo, but when he came back to Tokyo it turns out that he is part of the council. That just doesn't make sense. How can he be hunted down and still be part of the government council?

Anyway, enough about my ranting. If you wanna see some cultural stuff about Japan and Samurai and you don't have National Geographic, then go see this movie.

"No disrespect sir, but you can shove the order up your arse!"