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how the did this
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happen how the did this happen was this
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a
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bug in 47 Ronin keano Reeves lives as a
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bullied Outcast among Samurai and
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supernatural creatures in feudal Japan
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however when the lord of the region is
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wrongly sentenced to death thanks to his
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a-hole rival Keanu must join forces with
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the now masterless Samurai on one last
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mission kill the Rival Lord before he
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marries the Region's princess who of
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course is in love with
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keano and interestingly so 47 Ronin is
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very similar to seven Sun that released
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around the same time which I covered
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earlier this year I mean it's basically
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the same only Eastern we're in a
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fantastical world of the past but it's
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Japan we have a hero with supernatural
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abilities but he's a samurai instead of
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a mage we have an evil dragon but it's a
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dragon of the East we have a super pale
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villainous witch in love with the wrong
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man but in Japan a hollow armored enemy
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but a samurai a number in the title but
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as numbers we even come across a random
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harmless Forest ghost but a bit
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different just a gas level six creature
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spirits of the old and infirm who are
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left here to die that being said though
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by all logic 47 Ronin should produce way
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better results than seven Sun simply
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because the parts it's made up of are
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worth way more there are multiple core
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ingredients for Success here including
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many exciting scenes and events like
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fighting Fantastical beasts with swords
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keano Reeves leading the film as a
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supernatural Samurai and overall a big
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bunch of fascinating Fantastical Eastern
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elements that should produce success yet
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the this movie didn't find any success
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only failure it became an even bigger
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flop than seven Sun meaning that it was
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disliked by the messes and lost a crazy
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amount of
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money and the age old filal question
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this brings up is why with all these
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ingredients for Success why is the
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result failure well I'd argue it's
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because all those ingredients are wasted
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the amazing events don't carry any real
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worth keano Reeves may as well not be
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keano Reeves and even the special
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elements of the world cancel each other
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out so today let's ride into this world
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of feudal Japan to see why not only to
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learn to avoid the same fate in our own
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work but also because a mysterious
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benefactor wanted me to cover this movie
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in exchange for Christmas gifts
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Christmas gifts I need because this year
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I want to be a good guy like kananu and
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get gifts for all the people I know
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instead of just my mom 12 Hugo weaving
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doubles that played Agent Smith was so
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gracious of the sequence and how he how
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he put it in he managed to secure 12
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custom Holly davisons for each of the
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guys anyway enough backstory here's how
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47 Ronan wasted its potential and how
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not to do the
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same firstly the reason many of the
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awesome events and scenes here don't
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work is because they lack real time
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motivational context without which they
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become loud noise for example after
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mandatory beginning Studio voice over
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Exposition the movie opens with Keanu
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helping the samurai to hunt a beast in
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the local Forest a beast that turns out
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to be a bit more than your usual
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neighborhood lion and then of course
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cool excitement happens the samurai
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attack the Beast so it goes crazy and
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wrecks everything in its
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path the samurai get their asses whooped
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so Keanu has to take matters into his
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own hands and when one Samurai is about
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to be killed by the Beast Keanu runs in
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to save
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him but all that excitement aside the
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issue with the sequence is that we don't
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have context for why it's happening why
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are the samurai hunting this Beast it it
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it kind of just happens afterwards the
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Lord says that now that the Beast is
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dead the shogun's party can arrive
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safely sure we can finally welcome the
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Shogun without fear but what the
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audience needs during the sequence
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itself is motivational context so that
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they can understand and appreciate the
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value of it for instance if you began
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the movie by showing dead cattle killed
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by the Beast that would give meaning to
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the scene of hunting the Beast or if you
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began by showing dead and injured
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civilians who were attacked by the beast
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on the Forest Trail same thing the value
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of hunting the Beast would be clear but
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if that context is not there it's mostly
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noise it's like the difference between
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hunting for food and safety and hunting
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for sport the latter doesn't really
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compare as another example after the
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Shogun has arrived along with the Lord
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of another region there's this festivity
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of entertainment including a battle
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between the champions of the two regions
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damn this is big and because the villain
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Lord for some reason bewitches this
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Region's Champion Keanu has to secretly
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take his place he has to go up against
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this evil Champion that appears to have
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been brought in from yet another number
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movie and what follows is a cool Samurai
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battle but again what's missing is the
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motivational context why characters do
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what they do what the scene's value is
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what's the purpose of the fight is it
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just for entertainment and pride or will
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it actually decide something I don't
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know what are the rules of the fight is
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it to the death or just until someone
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starts crying I don't know and why is
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the villain cheating doesn't he trust
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his own Champion is he going to achieve
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something by making the local Lord look
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bad I don't
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know just hanging around as I said last
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time questions and Mysteries can be
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useful but you still need to offer
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enough context for the events and
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character actions for them to matter
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when someone leaked oppenheimer's file
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to destroy his reputation I understood
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enough to feel involved whereas here
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while I do understand that Keanu steps
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in to protect this Lord's honor if we
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have no fighter AKA will be disgraced I
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just don't have enough insight to Value
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the fight itself as cool as it may be
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and the same problem bothers the movie
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from beginning to end the villain's goal
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is to get rid of the local Lord to steal
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his land without any context as to why
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after he get gets the land he does
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nothing with it and just goes back to
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his own land so huh the masterless
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samurai decide to avenge the Lord a year
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after his death because now the princess
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will have to marry the evil Lord but why
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I mean I understand that keano has to
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stop the wedding because he loves the
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princess but why is the wedding such a
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big deal for these
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guys will marry Mika we must stop him
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why not just wait for a calmer moment
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and strike the villain down when he
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least expects it and why is the villain
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so eager to marry the princess anyway if
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he already has control of the land if
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they don't even have any proper scenes
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together huh I mean the audience is able
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to make deductions on their own and all
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of this does make sense yes but my point
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is that events and actions will always
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pack more punch with enough realtime
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motivational context like oh the reason
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the villain needs to marry the princess
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is because that will finally give him
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control of her region oh the reason the
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sumurai need to stop the marriage is
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because the villain plans to use his new
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control to steal their Region's
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resources for something oh this battle
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is important because the Shogun is
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already thinking about uniting the
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regions under one strong ruler and so
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the local Lord has to seem Strong by
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winning for the audience to have context
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like that while they see the scenes play
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out it makes a huge difference for
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example if I now suddenly pause the
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video to list out a bunch of Christmas
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gifts it wouldn't work because no matter
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how amazing the gifts or the editing you
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just be wondering what's happening right
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why you what is however because earlier
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I told you that this year I want to be
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like Keanu and somehow afford to get
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Christmas gifts for all the people I
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know now you have the context now it
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works now you're invested to find out
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whether I pull off my objective like I
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said for my mom I'm getting something
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expensive but I'd like to find a more
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affordable way to remember other people
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as well well let's see let me pull up
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this magical Store app and see what I
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can find okay for my two young cousins I
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got these canvis movie posters for $7 a
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piece for my younger cousin I got this
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baby Groot figure for $14 I got this
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funny iPhone cover for a friend for $2 a
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homer hat for the neighbor kid for $6 a
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smart belt for my uncle for $5 and a
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bunch of more cool stuff as well all
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within my budget and there you go I did
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it secondly the reason keano Reeves as
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the hero here doesn't do much good is
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because he's not allowed to be a proper
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hero one thing this means is that he's
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basically the worst type of protagonist
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possible a reserved passive shell the
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single action in the movie he does fully
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of his own volition is dress up as the
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champion to try to save the local Lord
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from embarrassment which is pretty good
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pretending to be the champion to save
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your homes hona nice touch kinu outside
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of that however he doesn't really have
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objectives of his own he hunts the beast
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in the beginning because he's ordered to
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and then he just kind of waits for
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things to go wrong because people don't
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listen to him he lives as a cage fighter
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for a year after the local Lord's death
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until the samurai leader then comes to
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tell him that hey maybe we should go
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stop the princess's wedding oh
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okay and I mean mostly keanu's actions
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are limited to standing quietly in the
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background and emoting a tiny bit when
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someone looks his way I'm not saying you
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can't make a passive hero like that work
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but I am saying that an extrovert doer
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hero like Tony Stark is way easier to
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make work then I suggest you are simply
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Bewitched by a beautiful girl okay I
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will do nothing guano is awesome when
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he's doing stuff but because most of the
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time he isn't doing stuff it doesn't
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really help that it's ke
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could have been anyone I'll come with
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you another issue with the hero is that
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he fails to earn the audience's respect
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like I said Keanu is an outcast because
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he's a foreigner and these Japanese
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characters don't seem to like forigners
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very much he has to live in the woods in
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a sorry Shack made of branches he's
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constantly being scoffed at when helping
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because he's help is like cancer I would
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rather have been killed by that Beast
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than saved by a hair breed he doesn't
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dare look at his childhood friend the
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princess because she's so far above him
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I mean he's not even seen as a person by
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these people kill it to be clear putting
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the hero down unfairly is useful in
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getting the audience to support them
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through sympathy yes but there's a fine
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line between sympathy for someone's pain
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and sheer annoyance at someone's
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neutered complacency like Keanu these
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guys are being openly Formula 1 drivers
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against you stop being content with that
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stop bowing down to them every chance
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you get stop sending your childhood
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friend away stop living under a bunch of
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branches stop being okay with
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discrimination and being treated like
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these guys aren't even Samurai anymore
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they're nothing how about you finally
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stand up for yourself he's not a
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samurai none of us are Samurai look
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Keanu is awesome and I like Keanu but it
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does get frustrating to see him be so
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useless yeah man I I could never be a
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real sammurai so I'll just accept my
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faith and let my head be cut off like a
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dog no that the Shogun guy have some
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self-respect either stand up for
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yourself which we know you can do or get
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out of this piece of place just please
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do something stop giving your respect to
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people who don't deserve it stop being
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so complacent oh my God bro oh hell no
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man I mean it's mainly just weird to see
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the movie try to turn this into an
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inspiring story for example some
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characters like the local Lord are
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implied to be good people who actually
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care about Keanu which clearly isn't the
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case because otherwise they wouldn't
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make him live under a bunch of branches
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it's not like they're momentarily trying
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to hide Keanu from the Shogun or
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something he's right there they just
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want him to live in the woods because
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he's different damn you live like
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this and then UL Ely learning that maybe
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that's not so good that that's not
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inspiring I don't care when these people
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die I don't care if their land burns
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like I genuinely don't understand why
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the hero has such a hard on for these
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people who have maybe once or twice done
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the bare minimum for him I used to wait
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in the woods outside a heart and throw
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stones at you you as one
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more issue with the hero there's the
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fact that he doesn't use what makes him
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special see keanu's backstory is that
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since he's a foreigner he was raised by
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these magical Al people who taught him
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Supernatural fighting abilities but for
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reasons we never delve into Keanu hates
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the L people and has vowed to never use
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his abilities and thus he only does it
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twice he does one speed burst at the
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midpoint against his old teacher and he
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does another speed burst at the end to
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kill the dragon that's it and it's not
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enough what's the point of a character
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having Supernatural ability if he uses
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them for a total of like 4 seconds you
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might as well not have them what's sus
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special about these
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swords they cut oh my God in other words
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they're wasted just like keo's hero as a
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whole if you're going to do so little
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with your hero that most of what they do
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could have been done by anyone then
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what's the use of getting
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Keanu
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thirdly the reason the cool Supernatural
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and signature World elements here don't
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work is because they don't logically
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survive each other's existence take for
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example the element of Magic the fact
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that in this world witches and the
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supernatural exist it's pretty weird how
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the movie suddenly just verbally decides
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that witches exist without properly
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introducing them home to witches and
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demons a hunt I saw Fox but it was a
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witch a witch but fair enough the real
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problems begin when certain characters
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suddenly don't account for the fact that
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witches and the supernatural exist when
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the story can't have
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it for instance after the champion games
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the witch who is in love with the
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villain Lord creates this magical spider
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oh hello there that poisons the local
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Lord with hypnosis which leads him to
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mistakenly attack the villain Lord as
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was
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planned and then he sentenced to death
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because harming a guest in feal Japan is
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like the worst offense the penalty is
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death and the issue with this is that
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the Shogun never once stops to consider
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the fact that maybe the local Lord
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really was poisoned with magic like oh
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you've been a loyal honorable Warrior
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all your life and now you suddenly
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attack your guest in the night nothing
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suspicious there oh the guest you
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attacked will inherit all your lands as
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a result of your attack nothing
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suspicious there you know the existence
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of witches and Magic just doesn't
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logically compute with what the
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characters are doing and how the story
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uses Japanese culture your mind was
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poisoned if I accept my fate no one will
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question the honor of our people oh my
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God bro as another example after the
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villain Lord is then positioned to
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inherit this land he decides to toss the
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leader of the now masterless Samurai
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into jail so that he doesn't lead an
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uprising I have no idea why he doesn't
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just kill him but okay he removed the
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leader to make sure that the samurai
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have nobody to follow makes sense what
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doesn't make sense however is that a
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year later just before the villain is to
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be wet to the princess he lets the
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leader go because maybe he's not a
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threat anymore and now it's like wait a
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minute you imprison the samurai leader
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to prevent him from rallying his troops
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and now just before the most important
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moment you let him go huh once again the
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story development just doesn't go
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together with the idea that that Samurai
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need a leader to follow it's as if the
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filmmakers just wanted a one-year time
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Jump and didn't care how they got it you
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know now that the leader is free and
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hears about the wedding the first thing
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he does is go get Keanu who also wasn't
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killed for some reason and then they
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rally the samurai to G stop the wedding
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whoops I have no idea this could happen
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and you'll find a lot of that here
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elements of this world just don't go
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together with what the filmmakers do
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within the world if the witch can
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hypnotize people directly and without
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leaving any ible
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Mark sorry then why does she need to
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create a magical spider that does leave
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a mark to hypnotize the local Lord in
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the beginning these two sides don't Jael
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if the local Lord is a good guy who
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actually cares about Keanu even though
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he's a foreigner then why doesn't he let
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him leave somewhere better than a crappy
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Shack in the woods isn't the whole point
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here that the Lord of a region controls
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the region these two sides don't gel if
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the jealous witch has been forbidden to
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harm the princess by the villain then
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how come she leaves a knife for her
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along with bad news to make her take her
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own life your half braid is dead if
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something did happen to the princess
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wouldn't the villain immediately think
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that the witch hypnotized her but how
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could she ever convince him otherwise I
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didn't do it okay yeah these two sides
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don't yel if the old people put Keanu
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and the samurai leader to a test before
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giving them magic swords why are they
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opposite Keanu will get the sword if you
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can draw it faster than his teacher and
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the leader will get the swords if he
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doesn't draw his sword at all even when
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he sees visions of his men and son being
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mowed down it's just a bunch of dumb
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excuses to have a bunch of dumb cool
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action it's all a big bunch of great
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ideas gone to waste because they weren't
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used correctly within the borders in
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which they exist that's this movie in a
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nutshell 47 Ronin zero good enough
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reasons to
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