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Movie: "The Postman" with Kevin Costner
by TommyJefferson » Sun 18 Dec 2005, 12:59:42
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'D')ancing With Wolves was a wonderful movie. It, along with Little Big Man, educated me and many other normal, non-movie-critic fancypants about the validity of the Native American experience.
I knew many people based their romanticized hog-wash notions of Native American culture and history on the products of Hollywood writers, but I've never seen anyone present it as a point of pride.
Wow.
Native Americans were for the most part vile, cruel, and hateful people. Traditional Indian life involved almost perpetual warfare, torture, and slavery. Women were property treated worse than dogs. Rape of the environment was a way of life.
If you wish to learn about Native Americans, go read some first-hand accounts of them from people like Mark Twain who was raised by Indian parents on a reservation until he was 12 years old. Read the accounts of people who lived and worked with them.
These will be more accurate than the financially profitable fantasies dreamed up by the Hollywood writers' guild.
Oh, The Postman was perhaps the most mind-numbingly dull movie ever made. I love post-apocalyptic movies, but that one was so tedious and UN-entertaining I don't see how it ever got released.
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