>In the Mighty Whitey story, the narrative features a white savior arrived to save a tribe from impending danger, in films such as Lord Jim (1965), Farewell to the King (1989), and The Emerald Forest (1985), which are stories occurred in the wild lands of Polynesia, in the Pacific Ocean, and of the Amazon basin. In the course of the story, a psychologically troubled white man arrives to a foreign land, where the native populace welcome him to their tribe (society), and eventually include him to their social hierarchy, as such, he "not only learns the ways of the native people, but surpasses their skill, becoming far better at being a [native] member of the culture, than those of the tribe, and, naturally, [becomes] their greatest warrior or even their leader."
In the Mighty Whitey story, the narrative features a white savior arrived to save a tribe from impending danger...
damn white people and their historic success
The only one guilty of this is 47 Ronin, the rest are historical or actually made by the Asians.
>the rest are historical or actually made by the Asians.
doesn't matter
they still racist because you can't have whites in movies with asians.
>White person travels to foreign lands
>White person is nice to the natives
>OMG RACIST
Not even 47 ronin, sonada is the main guy
it's literally oppressing me
btw I'm a white mtf foxkin
>can't make it in your own country
>"SURELY THOSE COLORED SAVAGES WILL ACCEPT ME AS THEIR LEADER"
Nothing wrong with that unless you hate white people, and I don't so I don't care
Why is Tom Cruise so popular in Japan?
Japs loved the movie Top gun for some reason
Everyone loves top gun for every reason
Not a fan. Tom got better with age.
You left out the part where whitey realizes there are parts of the tribe that are even stronger than modern civilization, so he incorporates it, but the evil white man from home feels differently so he fights against this only to lose due to someone else proving diversity does make us all stronger.
I don't get this stuff
Take for example The LAst Samurai ( i did not see this so it may be a bad example)
Tom cruise is some sort of fighter already, gets captured etc and they end up training him etc
Instead of being "RACIST WHITE BETTER ERG!"
Doesn't it make sense that someone with similar training in a technique would learn another similar style easily and incorporate it into their move set thus making them the better fighter?
More people complained about the portrayal of Samurai as idealized warrior-poets more than Tom Cruise being a Japanese warrior.
Also Tommy boy never does master the Samurai ways, it's a key scene in fact that exemplifies Japanese and Western concepts of failure coming to blows. The only thing really "native" he does is live as a hostage, learn Japanese, and wear some O-Yoroi.
I don't think I've ever seen that, usually it's more like Shogun.
Keanu is half Asian
Marco Polo is only the narrator, half the time he does nothing, knows nothing and only gets corrected by the other characters
Silk road
Algren is the narrator, same as Marco Polo, also based on a real history
Anna does fucking nothing but clashing with their culture, also based on real history
Next time look for better examples for your pasta
He's visited the country more than any other celeb
He even has ton Cruise day
Based white people, spreading civilization to inferior races.
Thank you white people, for pretty much everything.
Yeah isn't he the one who tells the emperor to love his culture and reject the westerners and modern stuff or something when he hands him the samurai leaders sword?
>NO YOU CAN'T MODERNIZE YOUR COUNTRY YOUR SAMURAI HAVE BEAUTIFUL TRADITIONS OF LOOKING AT CHERRY BLOSSOMS AND CUTTING PEASANTS HEADS OFF
lol is not a pasta.
Never happened in real life
>not including Avatar
he literally becomes a better alien
Last Samurai is a nice movie
And doesn't follow the "white guy savior" tropes, in fact he's the one saved (in every way conceivable) by the samurais
>a white guy lies to native people so they can steal their land and split it up among other white people and causes ethnic and religious conflict that lasts to this day
That part did happen
>steal
lol why are muds such sore losers
You're forgetting Lawrence of Arabia.
Aren't there movies about minorities and foreigners succeeding in America despite not being from here? How is this different? And it's not like every movie set in some foreign land involves a white savior, just some of them.
The whole thing is very silly, but whatever, I'm preaching to the choir here anyway.
America is for EVERYONE, countries like Japan are for the Japanese only.
I imagine that's how they think.
>Read manga about Japanese dude in foreign land
>He's the MC
>He's the hero
>He does everything
I guess as [insert color different than white] guy saviour doesnt' sound that SJWy even though it also happens. Face it, you have confirmation bias because you live in the "white"sphere
Baddassy Browny story
>As long as the narrator is white
>At least two POC in crew
>White savior
Might as well put Die Hard on that list too
>La La Land
>The romantic musical film portrays a white musician (Ryan Gosling), amidst falling in love with an aspiring actress, questing to save the traditionally black musical genre of jazz.[38]
witnessed this truth
And also historically accurate, as around 800AD the Abbasaid empire would be entering it's golden age, while the Scandies would still be a backwater.
>black people claim Jazz as their own
woah, cultural appropriation much?
>Islamic golden age meme
top kek
>Historically accurate
>Becomes a viking and fights a bear cult army
hmm
This was fuckin great. You could actually get some really cool colonial adventure films from the old Muslim stories, like the Arab traders meeting the Kings of Brunei, or exploring East Africa
>And also historically accurate
And? half the ones in OP are also historically accurate.
CHECKED
Wtf I love Top Gun now
None of those films are like that tho. Should've used the average anime for example.
[For the record I'm not talking about Marco Polo or that King and I adaptation here, haven't seen them and don't know how the shows are but I do know the historical context (obviously).] But, the cliche described in the OP is still fucking stupid and the fact I'm expected to like it here cause it topples the SWJ boogieman is really fucking stupid.
It was, at first, an easy way for a white writer to write about the fancies culture of the week, because you can just make it all from your perspective discovering other people and not actually try.
Then it just became that way for a while because it became the norm and historical-adventure vehicles were decent for lead actors for about 8 seconds. And now people just assume you, yes you, are too stupid to try a movie about Japan (or anywhere else) if the biggest face on the poster isn't white. And this shit tells them "yes, I am that stupid".
It's played out, lazy, takes away from the time and place in the movie at this point and is only done for the sake of being easy to sell rather than good.
>made by Asians
It's still being done for marketing reasons, it's still "eh, people wont watch our shit if don't inject a white guy like a juice into our steak". It's dumb and it's being done for what looks like a movie that had enough dumb to start with.
>Last Samurai is accurate
Brunet was french, he supported the Boshin war (not Setsuma), and the samurai were using guns since the 1550s.
>would I defend the opposite
No, unless it's like some trashy b-movie or trying to be one.
Movies with white leads sell better. Quantifiable fact. Sorry it triggers you.
>white people want to watch movies with whites in them
Why are whites so racist?
I don't give a shit if their mathematicians were all Persian. It wasn't just a golden age in math and science. They had a flowering of textiles and artisan crafts, and they were strong enough militarily to repel Byzantium in that period. Also, the whole 'blood of a scholar worth more than a martyr.'
If I found myself stuck in 800AD, you can bet your ass I'd be trying to get to Baghdad.
>It's played out, lazy, takes away from the time and place in the movie at this point and is only done for the sake of being easy to sell rather than good.
Subjective opinion. Keep writing long diatribes on the Internet though complaining about white people in Asian settings. The studios will surely listen and people will definitely want to stop watching that, right?
>no white diversity in indian market
>no white diversity in Asian market
>no white diversity in African market
Huh?
Huh?!
>dudes whites are so racist lmao
Shit compared Roman Pagan Golden age, the Catholic Renaissance and the Anglican Industrial Revolution.
By that metric the same could be said about OP's movie selection. Imperial European powers made east Asian look like a backwater. If you had to live in feudal Japan vs 1800's America(The last samurai) or the Mongolian steeps living in a yurt vs 1300's Venice (Marco Polo) or even feudal Japan vs Portugal(47 Ronin) where would you want to be?
Wherever Opium is legal at.
Honestly I gotta admit I wouldn't watch a nigger movie with nothing but niggers in it. But I wouldn't watch a nigger movie with one white in it either.
In any other movie I think it's better to not have a single white person in it. Look at Apocalypto. That worked fine without being about a white protagonist. TLS would've worked fine too if it didn't focus on the white man but just had English speaking Nihongos in it.
Really for the average person it wouldn't really make a difference. Even in the height of colonial European power you still would have been slaving away in sweatshop conditions with nothing resembling modern workers rights and would probably die of polio or cholera due to your drinking water being the same as the sewage system. Everything you take for granted today is because of American exceptionalism, not some historical fantasy where every European was part of the well off aristocracy
Keanu Reeves is white?
Always thought he was Asian.
Huh.
>We should praise and accept elements that are entirely dependent on market forces rather than what contributes best to the film as a piece of art
>Hollywood
>art
kek
> Roman Pagan golden age
Eh, not unless I'm actually Roman.
> Catholic Renaissance
Sure.
> Anglican Industrial Revolution
Sure, but I'm getting the fuck out of London. Prussia or the Netherlands sound alright though.
Nah, I think he's right. I'd take 1800's US over Japan, even with the US civil war, and Venice over Mongolia for sure, just for the climate.
>Really for the average person it wouldn't really make a difference
Yeah other than abundance of food, better medicines, quality of life, higher social mobility, education, industrialization,more freedom to chose one owns occupation, echelons of society based on merit instead of birthright, other than all that stuff I'm sure living in Feudal Japan or a Mongolian stepe was pretty much the same as life for an average European living in one of the mentioned places.
>Everything you take for granted today is because of American exceptionalism, not some historical fantasy where every European was part of the well off aristocracy
Oh, so this is bait.
We get it though, you hate white people.
Keanu is not half Asian, His father was Whtie and his mom was a Hawaiaan with chinese, portugese, and english ancestry.
My mistake, his mom was white, his father was Hawaiian.
This, American whites are cucked as fuck though, its embarrassing for the rest of us.
>We get it though, you hate white people.
Why would he? He basically stated the West is essentially responsible for the modern world and most of its progress in the last couple of centuries.
Compared to Brits, Germans and Swedes? They are the 4th or 5th most cucked white nation at best.
Dunno mate im none of the above
Americans are the most cucked people on the planet. More-so than any one else. the USA has more shitskins than most actual civilized countries have people living in it.
I say this as an American.
>Yeah other than abundance of food, better medicines, quality of life, higher social mobility, education, industrialization
Hardly existed before the post WWII era. Even things like starvation and child malnutrition in the west were very commonplace before Johnson's great society programs. Millions of men were unfit for military service during WWII from polio and the long term effects of malnutrition.
> higher social mobility, education, industrialization,more freedom to chose one owns occupation
Really an American concept that the rest of Europe was forced to adopt as a way not to legitimize communism. Even in places like the UK, your quality of life is very much dictated by the social class of your parents or in Italy where the same families have been wealthy for the past 600 years
America is the only place in the world where a large part of the populations thinks they will one day be millionaires if you "work hard enough". The reason why Europeans are more open to socialism is because they know the reality of living in a class society
this, where's all the whites in Korean movies?
Oh wait I don't care because I'm not fucking autistic.
Marco Polo isn't even really the main character in the second season of his own titled show. More of a side character. It's all about Kublai Khan and the arab danger.
America is and was a predominately white country, these movies are usually exported to western countries which are also mostly white, even when they go to Latin America its people who pretend they are white. Asian in Asia not crybaby Asian Americans want to see good looking white people.
Therese are movies from America it's not crazy that's it usually staring white people.
When Japan or China makes a movie, regardless of the subject material the main actor is exclusively Asian. Why the west has to play by different rules is beyond me.
Also its important for the audience to see that world from their perspective. And also fish out of water types give an excuse for exposition-based dialog. If Everyone is a Chinaman then there's no reason for people to explain their Chinese ways.
Postscript: 47 Ronin is a fantasy movie and Keanu is part Asian, and the Great Wall is a Chink fantasy movie that has a token white guy because the Chinese thought they could do our own strategy to sell a movie, little did they know the West is full of angry minorities and SJW now, so that might back fire, and have the CCP be accused of white supremacy.
Very loosely based on a rrue story as well. The book was based on the journals of an arab diplomat, though all the cave people shit was obviously made up for the book.
Arabs didn't write rune stories.
>60%
>"predominantly white"
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Words of truth here.
I'm going to laugh if Great Wall bombs in the USA because of libcucks and butthurt nonwhites/asians but then goes on to make half a billion in China.
It's out in China and doing pretty well.
>Hardly existed before the post WWII era.
Bullshit. The agriculture boom before it and then the Industrial revolution was spawned in Britain and was one of the greatest achievements in human history. The social effects were tremendous. For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth .Nothing remotely like this economic behaviour is mentioned by the classical economists, even as a theoretical possibility. Without the Industrial revolution we'd be pretty much stuck at the equivalent technological, economic, social, and cultural level of 1820 or thereabouts. Science would only have improved sporadically, and no field would be as far along as it is today.
Everything would still be custom-made by skilled craftmen; that is, the entire economy would all be "bespoke". All the gains from automation would be lost, and pretty much all power generation would be limited to localized engines. In Britain and the Netherlands, food supply had been increasing and prices falling before the Industrial Revolution due to better agricultural practices; however, population grew too, as noted by Thomas Malthus.Before the Industrial Revolution, advances in agriculture or technology soon led to an increase in population, which again strained food and other resources, limiting increases in per capita income. This condition is called the Malthusian trap, and it was finally overcome by industrialisation. Transportation improvements, such as canals and improved roads, also lowered food costs. Railroads were introduced near the end of the Industrial Revolution. Living standards for the majority of the population grew meaningfully in the late 19th and 20th centuries
So this is a white hate thread right?
>all that bullshit just to say "went from shitty life farming to eminems shitty life in 8 mile"
Success breeds jealousy.
But I'm not jealous. I just hate white men
>Trivializing the great advances because you're American and hate white people
I can list some probabilities of where we would be right now without the Industrial revolution if you want.
why?
Because diversity
Another butthurt shitskin
This is r/asianmasculinity hates white people
Of course its going to do well in China, its a Chinese movie, and Chinks love explosions, fantasy armor in history movies and CG monsters.
Why would Asians hate white people?
Yes brother.
Post your favorite woke kino that addresses the white problem.
youtube.com
Asian men don't like them stealing their womens. And some Asian Americans have drunk the SJW koolaid, most Asians go to college and that shit is beaten over your head with. Luckily most Asians don't get worthless lib art degrees, though.
They think of white people like Sup Forums thinks of the jews.
>LIBERAL BOOGEYMEN FROM THE INTERNET THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF ARE TOTALLY REAL GUISE
>triggered Asians
4 inches lol
You're not fooling anyone Zhao
>Hindus, Greeks, Persians
>"repel" byzantium as if Byzantium wasn't trying to get them to fuck off
>implying slaughtering byzantines was at all difficult (see Norman conquest of Sicily and southern Italy)
>implying even then it wasn't because the Byzantine army was flooded with arabs who betrayed them all the time
>60m opening
Not as good as I thought, but it'a made 200m worldwide to far. What's the production budget?
135 mil apparently
>asianmasculinity
Why is it called like that? Are they really compensating for their perceived lack of manliness by naming their sub "masculinity?"
Doesn't seem helpful.
>Dr. Kamau Kambon
>dreadlocks
lmao
Reddit has some incredibly insecure people on it, must be all the xenoestrogens getting pumped into everything.