'Emperor' review: MacArthur film works To fully appreciate the strange mix of unintended comedy and real achievement in Tommy Lee Jones' performance as Gen. Douglas MacArthur, it helps to have some familiarity with MacArthur - with the sonorous voice, the melodrama, the vanity, the swagger. The actor's only intrinsic connection to MacArthur is his own swagger, but his swagger is very much connected to the Southern accent and the bulldog stare, all the things that make him very much himself and nothing like MacArthur. [...] probably the best way to watch "Emperor" is to pretend that the Supreme Command of Allied Forces in Japan after World War II was Tommy Lee Jones. The American public is clamoring for the emperor's head, but executing him could set back the occupation and open the door to the Soviets. [...] the film keeps flashing back to give us bits and pieces of the romance that Fellers once had with a Japanese student. [...] after his military career - he was demoted from brigadier general to colonel by Eisenhower, who disliked him - Fellers got into extreme right-wing politics and even joined the John Birch Society.
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