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An incident involving a black man who is holed up in a shack with his native American woman escalates after the man is killed by the town constable, a Mexican who had served in the US Cavalry chasing Apaches.
The black man, the Native American woman, the Mexicans, the Anglos, and then the rancher's not so faithful mistress, give this movie a lot of great subplots to think about, but the central story of Valdez first asking and then demanding money for the dead man's woman is simple yet effective as it draws out into chases and ambushes while revealing the characters for who they really are.
Native American mysticism and a crazed cult leader spirit desiring to capture Carol Anne are injected into the story of the sequel where we discover that the Freelings were living above a cavern containing the skeletal remains of a group led by Reverend Kane(Julian Beck)proclaiming the end of time was near..seeing that he was wrong, Kane doesn't allow them to leave.
Unfortunately, the vehicle for this examination is a familiar "hitman goes native for a while, but gets to go home again" theme.
This creaky and absurd film starts out promisingly enough, as young Joan Crawford does a decidedly risque dance to native accompaniment.
Then more dreams, involving long hallways, a Native American, (the dashing Cornel Wilde) swimming.
The portrayal of Native Americans is a joke and perpetuates stereotype after stereotype of native "innocence" vs.
Besides the plot the movie featured some really great scenes and I liked the fact that everyone spoke their native tongue (the french taxi driver spoke french,...).
Carlo Levi, an Italian who fought against the arrival of Fascism in his native Torino, was arrested for his activities and sent to exile in the Lucania region of the country, now known as Basilicata.
The highlights of the film are the brief shots of bare-breasted native women and a nifty fight between an octopus and an eel shot in an aquarium.
It's a Native American film that touches aspects of "Indian blood," the process of growing into a man, and moral/familial conflicts.
The best thing about this flick is the Austrian dialect, which makes the movie for a native Austrian much better.
It really opened my eyes to different Native American people and customs.
Dreamkeeper helped me visualize Native American life.
As I got closer to the native citizens, I discovered many secrets, secrets not unlike some of the tragic events that took Peyton Place by storm.
I give the actors points for effort, but all that hard work could've been spared if they spoke in their native language.
After being thrown off and getting chased by Indians (or in today's parlance, Native Americans), Roscoe stumbles into the town saloon where he foils robber St. John's holdup and takes his guns.
This movie shows so much about this particular piece of our past and how we started and what happened to the Native American Indians and to the Mustangs.
But the real crime here was the woeful miscasting of Cate Blanchet, and this I think, is why the movie never really took off at the box office.To any Dubliner, or indeed Irish person, her accent is just wrong, and given that she is surrounded by native Irish actors of some account, her pain is palpable.
I love Native American culture and philosophy.
Boorman based his movie of a article that appeared in the Los Angeles Time in the early 1980's which talked about a father whose son was abducted by native tribes and rediscovered ten years later.
The locations are picturesque and Boorman is able to capture the cultural authenticity of the native tribes of the Amazon.
That being said although Boorman did capture the authenticity of the native tribes and address the issue of deforestation the storyline was a little dull and cliché.
Another cliché is that as the white men come and development and progress disturbs the native's way of living as well as destroy the rainforest.
The final cliché which we see in a lot of movies where natives play a predominant role is that the native lifestyle is portrayed as a sanctuary that sin has never entered.
This is more evident if you don't need to rely on the subtitles, as the original dialog comes across as hollow and flat in the native tongue.
In addition to being a great story about a little-depicted part of North America's history, Black Robe portrays with stark effect the wide gap in the way that white Europeans thought and acted compared to the way that native Americans thought and acted in the 17th Century.
The Director's cut, the featurettes, even a section on the authentic native American costumes, all give a fascinating insight into the difficulties in making a movie like this.
In my opinion, this is a film that is best understood if you are a native Czech, appreciate Czech humor and character, and like Bohumil Hrabal's "tender barbarian" style of writing.
being of partially Native decent i have encourage many of my friends to watch it and all them have been enlightened.
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