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EXCLUSIVE: Tom Cruise in ‘The Last Samurai’ Wallpaper Download
…e at the page, right click on the image and save as your desktop picture. • You should be looking at your new background! Tom Cruise Wallpaper – The Last Samurai – Size 800 x 600 Tom Cruise Wallpaper –The Last Samurai– Size 1024 x 768 Tom Cruise Wallpaper –The Last Samurai– Size 1280 x 800 We hope everyone enjoys this blast from the past with ‘The Last Samurai’ image as your new computer background. For your insider pass to exclusive Tom Crui…
Tom Brings The Pain— Samurai Style: Epic Sword Fight O’Fury In This ‘The Last Samurai’ Movie Clip
Tom Cruise – The Last Samurai Tom Cruise, as ‘Nathan Algren’, fights off his attackers in this epic sword fight scene from the ‘The Last Samurai’…FACT: Tom trained 5hrs a day for one year to prepare for the sword-fighting scenes… FILM SYNOPSIS (From user generated IMDB.com Synopsis): The film begins in the summer of 1876, introducing Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a disenchanted ex-United States A…
Tom Cruise Blog Guest Writer Maura Lynch: The Last Samurai
…ering of those for whom his character cares. Cruise’s Algren, once a hero in the great American tragedy of the U.S. Civil War, is haunted by the massacre of Native Americans, in which he was forced to participate in the 1870s. He drinks to forget these horrific events, and has lost his honor as a solider. Algren truly doesn’t care whether he lives or dies. By accepting the invitation of the Japanese government to hunt down and kill th…
The Last Samurai Final Scene Makes PopCrunch List of Top 14 All-Time Movie Battles!
Tom Cruise joined Ken Wantanabe for the final charge in the epic climax of The Last Samurai, earning the 2003 film inclusion on the list of the Top 14 All-Time Movie Battles from the PopCrunch blog. The period drama uncovered the history of the samurai warrior in tragically poetic fashion, with this final confrontation marking the transition into the Meiji Restoration and the final stand of the traditional swordsmen. As the folks at PopCrunch…
Yahoo! Rates The Top 5 Tom Cruise Films
…nition. In matters of taste, there is no correct answer! Some of these movies have line-ups of Oscar-caliber heavyweights. Others are fantastical genre films that recall some of the greatest stories and characters of the last 20 years. All of them have the signature craftsmanship and detailed attention to performance that marks Tom’s work. We’ve included video clips from each of the selected movies to help you better understand the ch…
Top 10 Tom Cruise Movie Action Scenes – Watch The Video Clips!
…ing our hearts palpitate as Tom’s “Maverick” overcomes his demons to get into the fight! This is one scene we’d never scramble from. You can order the Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collectors Edition) DVD from Amazon here ! 2. Minority Report – John Anderton’s Get Away With his first collaboration with Dreamworks chief Steven Spielberg in the Philip K. Dick science fiction epic, Minority Report gave us a darker version of Tom that audie…
Students Remember Hollywood Fiction, Not Historical Fact
Show of hands: how many of you believe that Tom Cruise’s character, Captain Nathan Algren, from the movie ‘The Last Samurai,’ is based on a real historical figure? Wrong! Capt. Nathan Algren and the story of ‘The Last Samurai’ is based on a series of historical events that took place in Japan from the mid-1860s to 1870s. During this time period, known as the Meiji Restoration, many Europeans were involved in the Wes…
Tom Cruise Photos: Director Edward Zwick
Tomcruise.com has added new, exclusive black-and-white photos that show Tom Cruise with the filmmakers he has worked with over his two decades in the movie business. Today, we focus on ‘The Last Samurai,’ and its director Edward Zwick. Zwick graduated from the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles before working as a journalist for the magazine “Rolling Stone.” By 1976, he found work on television as a writer, director, and pro…
VIDEO: IGN Goes Stunt Driving with Tom Cruise at Knight and Day Premiere!
…miere events for Knight and Day in Seville, jumping into high-powered drifting BMWs to chase down Tom on the Spanish streets. IGN’s Tom Butler found himself training for the race by taking a quick tutorial in high-speed 180s from Knight and Day co-star Cameron Diaz. The gamer looked up to the task even as the g-forces kicked in when Cameron slammed the handbrake for the sudden stop. We’re guessing that’s the type of experience t…
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