[SA]
Have you ever watched "The Last of the Mohicans".
That's one of my all-time movies. The new Apocolpco
(spelling?) by Mel Gibson is awesome as well. The Mohican movie has a
very, very, very, etc... sad ending that every time I watch it, I can't
get over.
It gets me every time. If I watch the movie too much I can't help but
know what's going to happen in the end and so I watch these characters
play their roles knowing their destiny. That makes it even more sad.
The book by James Fenimore Cooper is a very good read.
The Apocolpco has a happier ending. It is amazing how the cultures
involved perceived and lived their life. It would help to know some
Mayan history for the latter. To know why those people were being
sacrificed. It's amazing how those urban people got caught up in what
they thought was real and necessary.
To know about the French and Indian War is not that necessary for the
Mohican movie, but it does help in expanding the times and the realness
of what was happening between these three ways of life. The Amerindian,
colonial, and European. The cultures really clashed during this time,
the contrasts were still at there height, and the continent, the idea of
freedom, as well as, the ideas of these different cultures were enhanced
under the pressure. The victorian popular social call, village life,
the woods, colonial families, empire building, an elk in the woods,
canoeing, monstrous forts, etc...
[Ron]
SA,
I saw Apocolypto last night, what jumped out at me was for how much
Gibson centered in on tribal life
it seemed he still portrayed it from a western point of view...the
dancing in ceremonies was so stereo
typical, half the characters looked more spanish/cuban than
aboriginal.The Inca corruption seemed
alittle over the top, almost justifying western obliteration.
I liked Mohicans, but I used to shoot black powder, so I see holes in
that movie too.
I'm a harsh movie critic.
ever see Dead Man, or Smoke signals?
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