Interestingly enough, the sword as the quintessential samurai weapon is a fairly modern trope of stage and screen. Warriors are by necessity pragmatic people, and so their actual weapon of choice in actual battles was - you guessed it - the bow.
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i guess i disagree? john wick is a fantastic gunfighter, but he doesn't fight dirty. musashi was the guy who used every trick in the book to stack the odds to his advantage--john wick mostly just charges in and trusts to his superior skills.
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even more so, wick is clearly deeply committed to the various notions of honor. and he never uses those notions -- the weird-ass conventions of his assassin society -- to trick people, to wrong-foot them, to outplay them. he plays his honor completely straight.
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The whole idea of taking an inherently ridiculous, cinematic premise (the "one-man army", one guy taking out hundreds of trained opponents) and asking "Okay but IF this happened how would you do it" He'd have to both be really good and take every possible advantage
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*adds another aspect to the John wick inspired by ghost dog inspired by 5 rings topic. This thread keeps on giving
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