![]() ![]() Specifically, Brunet drew this depiction of an attack in Kyoto, Japan, on the British envoy to Japan, Harry Parkes, which was then printed in the 13 June 1868 issue of Le Monde Illustré. ![]() Lastly, Brunet was also a talented painter and sketch artist, also fitting Coubertin's ideal of the "intellectual soldier". He was taken prisoner at the Siege of Metz. Specifically, while Last Samurai's Nathan Algren admires the culture and "honor" of ancient Japan, Coubertin admired the culture and "honor" of ancient Greece in a similar way, particularly in helping to improve French cavalry soldiers after France's humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.īrunet, too, had fought in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, and distinguished himself at the battles of Spicheren, Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte. Both Coubertin and Brunet also advocated to an expansion in French power in foreign countries like Japan, which is also key to examining the true history of The Last Samurai. Both Coubertin and Brunet came from an era of French horse cavalry that Coubertin would later seek to enshrine in the Olympic Games.Īround this time (1874 - 1892), both Brunet and Coubertin, aside from visiting both French and English schools, also shared similar goals, influenced by French military culture of the time period. Civil War - which plays a role in the film - no longer exists, I do have extensive experience with one of its spiritual successors, having been raised and trained for a large chunk of my life in USPC (United States Pony Clubs), which included training in modern tetrathlon / pentathlon.įrenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, claimed authorship of modern pentathlon, which was based on classical French cavalry training.Ĭoubertin (1863 - 1937), aside from being a French historian, was also a contemporary of Jules Brunet (1839 - 1911), despite Brunet being 24 years his senior. While the horse Cavalry that was present during period of the the U.S. However, I have never seen The Last Samurai's bad history addressed by an equestrian - or Cavalry - perspective, which is where I come in today. Not only does HistoryBuffs on YouTube have a video on The Last Samurai here, but the film has been popular in "debunk and debate" requests in the subreddit's past, culminating in posts like this one, in which a now-deleted user explores the film's bad military history. The Last Samurai (2003) seems to be one of those popular "bad history" films that r/BadHistory loves to hate, and it's not hard to see why.
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