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47 Ronin: A Modern Hollywood Version

Keanu Reeves stars in this modern adaption of the classic tale of the 47 Ronin. Coming from Japan, the original story shows the importance of honor and way of the samurai(Bushido). After seeing the film today, there are some definite not-so-positive changes that occurred from the story to the big screen. One of the biggest changes was adding witchcraft, magical beasts and super powers. While it is understandable that being a Hollywood film, one would expect not the most accurate representation of classic tales.

However in this case it seemed overboard especially in the intro and ending where they specifically mention the mystery and charm of traditional Japan, then BOOM magic dragons and super sonic sword strikes. The katana was used like a Dragon Ball Z fight and the only similarity between the original story and Keanu Reeves’ version was that the 47 ronin all die at the end via seppuku after their master is killed.They filled the rest of the two hours of film with unnecessary fluff.

Even the film as a “typical Hollywood movie” turned out to be lacking in performance of the actors and the directors movement choice. There were several awkward scenes that just didn’t need to be there, making necessary tension to never be followed up. I can’t deny that there were some pretty cool fight scenes in the movie but the number of bad far outnumber the good.

Pre-Impressions of 47 Ronin

I honestly don’t know a whole lot about this film and haven’t seen a single trailer outside of just passing by it at a store or something. I haven’t seen Keanu Reeves in a film since, I dunno, the Matrix movies so it will be kind of cool to see him on the big screen again. Whoa.

 

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Pre-Impressions of 47 Ronin

This is a movie that I have been looking forward to seeing for quite some time now. As a big fan of the work of Rick Genest, I cannot wait to see what he has in store for the viewers during this film, or what his acting skills are. As I have only seen him in small projects outside of this, it will be a treat to see him in a full-length film, especially one that fits into the criteria of our class as well as this one does.

This post is also going to be used as my opening post. I detest the generated posts that sites will put up for you when you first create them.

Pre-Impressions of 47 Ronin

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Today as a class we went to see 47 Ronin. I have to say going to the movie I thought it was going to be really lame (the movie itself) because I don’t really like Keanu Reeves as an actor. When I actually sat down to watch the movie I felt myself getting really into it (I jumped at some scenes). I didn’t have a lot of background information about the history of the Samurai but it wasn’t confusing figuring out what they were fighting for. Last quarter we had big discussions about how the white man is portrayed to be the saver, the hero. In this movie I can see where people would think that Keanu Reeves is that character but in his defense he is 1/4th Chinese. All in all I enjoyed the movie. I thought it was educational and entertaining.

47 Ronin impressions

This movie I thought was so awesome because it had action, adventure and showed the history of Japan. The form of equality then deception for conquering a kingdom and then a much bigger plot that was in mind. The quest for revenge for honor and against the orders of a empire. Check out the trailer for more info.

As seeing 47 Ronin again, I assume the very same of action, adventure and history. The movie was very good in the skills of deception and illusion. The movie I know is a big part of Japanese culture and I wanted to know what happened after the 47 Ronin.

47 Ronin

I was not very impressed with the film 47 Ronin.  The plot seemed to be built around Keanu Reeve’s character as the white or ‘white-ish’ savior. …