It's not so much that he learned Ninjutsu from a book... the Ninja Turtles origins were originally just as silly, and intended to be.
The questionable bit is... how he figured that the art of assassination would be an ideal parenting guide.
Who said anything about assassination?
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Ninjutsu as a martial art is generally associated with assassination. Just take a look at the weapons they use.
shareaccept of ninjutsu is an invention of the 20th century. the ninja of the olden days had no system of martial arts called ninjutsu. in ninja scrolls(yes they exst) it mentioned all sorts of things Non of which was martial arts. everything from proper ways to walk silently to methods of evasion
shareAnd these are 20th century Ninjas.
The old Ninja's you refer to would have had previous martial arts training and then as you suggest, would learn about evasion, walking silently etc all in all creating a better assassin.
The Ninja Turtles are not these old Ninjas with previous martial arts training. They are 20th century Ninjas learning 20th century Ninjutsu from a 20th century book in this movie.
My point is that Ninjutsu itself (as a system in its own right in the 20th century) or Ninja's themselves previously before that, are associated with assassination, which is an odd thing to use as a parenting manual.
I actually loved that moment because I had a flashback of borrowing a karate book from the library as a kid...and realizing that's not the best way to learn karate, lol.
As for parenting, well the turtles would be regarded as dangerous freaks. First priority would be to learn to defend themselves.
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I actually loved that moment because I had a flashback of borrowing a karate book from the library as a kid...and realizing that's not the best way to learn karate, lol.
Yup, this was even mentioned in The Karate Kid 1984 film, lol.
I actually loved that moment because I had a flashback of borrowing a karate book from the library as a kid...and realizing that's not the best way to learn karate, lol.
Exactly how is a now mutated more intelligent rat finding a book and teaching himself martial arts from it ridiculous, but a normal large intelligence pet rat watching his master from a cage and learning not ridiculous?
The cartoon got it right, Hamto Yoshi being mutated onto a rat makes so much more sense.
Meant regular intelligence
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Hamato Yoshi being the rat has always been the back story that made the most sense. Though it's hard to beat the Jim Henson rat muppet mimicking the ninja moves, I still remember my entire theater loving that, lol.
"Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind."
It's lame because they become ninjas out of pure coincidence.
And Shredder just happens to be a ninja out of pure coincidence as well.
The original version of the origin story tied it all together so much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z55W6ihUY-c
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You know what... I didn't even think about that. Good call.
shareAs far as the plot, he was worried once people found out about his sons, they would be under attack. He wanted them to learn to defend themselves from the nasty humans. The only self defense book he could find was on Ninjutsu.
I think the fact he gets so good at Ninjutsu he can do all those moves and teach his kids to do the same is the bigger issue. It isn't even a big book.
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I much preferred (as with most aspects of the story) the way it was done in the 1990 version. Where Splinter was a pet of a true Shadow Warrior and he learned ninjitsu by observing and mimicking a master. Much more plausible. I hated the idea that Splinter learned his martial arts ways from a book. That's just lame.
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