He's also the chosen one that marries into their royalty and is the only one who can hair fuck the really big dragon. If anything Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson in the other movies impose themselves less on the culture they decided to involve themselves with. Pocahontas is kind of a bad example vis a vis the protagonist cause he gets saved from the natives by Pochanhontas, doesn't do much in fighting off white people and the whole movie paints both sides as equally bad. Last Samurai, Tom Cruise spends a shit load of time there before there's a threat and the final standoff is a loss but Tom and the samurai both learn tactically from each other to do better in the battle so theres a collaborative angle there. I'm remembering very far back to when I saw it but for "that kind" of movie I recall it actually not being super white savioury. Especially cause they just get mowwed down by a gattling gun at the end so he literally wasn't a savior, just a defector.
For sure, but when you combine it with the fact that their chosen one literally came as a colonisers with an invasive force. White savior angle and there's also the whole thing where they wouldn't have needed a chosen one had he not been there in the first place
Edit: Kung Pow did the chosen one tripe perfectly.
He's also the chosen one that marries into their royalty and is the only one who can hair fuck the really big dragon. If anything Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson in the other movies impose themselves less on the culture they decided to involve themselves with. Pocahontas is kind of a bad example vis a vis the protagonist cause he gets saved from the natives by Pochanhontas, doesn't do much in fighting off white people and the whole movie paints both sides as equally bad. Last Samurai, Tom Cruise spends a shit load of time there before there's a threat and the final standoff is a loss but Tom and the samurai both learn tactically from each other to do better in the battle so theres a collaborative angle there. I'm remembering very far back to when I saw it but for "that kind" of movie I recall it actually not being super white savioury. Especially cause they just get mowwed down by a gattling gun at the end so he literally wasn't a savior, just a defector.
That's also a criticism of "chosen one" tropes, which are extremely stupid in their own right.
For sure, but when you combine it with the fact that their chosen one literally came as a colonisers with an invasive force. White savior angle and there's also the whole thing where they wouldn't have needed a chosen one had he not been there in the first place
Edit: Kung Pow did the chosen one tripe perfectly.