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Glad I waited to watch it via a $3 DVD.
Never noticed before, Colin Farrell has feminine eyes. Or was it the DP loved him so?
Were the naturals childlike, fun-loving innocents or fuming warriors? Make your mind up, Terrance.
So many fields of waving grass and flowers, reminded me of Thin Red Line.
That leather dress-thing Pocahontas wore was *very* fetching, hanging on one shoulder.
What's with the Spanish-type armor the men were wearing?
Christian Bates as John Rolfe looked, as usual, golden and acted it -- the only clear winner here.
All in all, a very *pretty* movie.
clark
PS The Virginia tidelands looked both wild and authentic.
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The armor was typical of the time and not particularly Spanish. In fact the conquistadors of the early 16th Century, fellas like Cortes, were far more Medievil looking than generally thought and didn't wear what we now consider "Spanish" armor. For the notion that they did we can thank the art department at 20th Century Fox which in Captain From Castile put the early 16th Century Spaniards in late 16th Century armor and clothing. Like making a movie about The Great War and putting the GIs in Iraq War gear, hey, it's only 90 years difference, right?
In reality the Virginia Indians portrayed in the movie had already had considerable dealings with Europeans and would hardly have reacted to the English in the awe struck and mysterious way they did in the movie. In reality the character portrayed by Wes Studi possibly spoke Spanish and had been a Catholic at one time.
c
My least favorite of his four films, but still not a bad film.
Rod
Days Of Heaven is SET on a wheat farm.
Farmland also appears in Badlands.
Part of Malick's mysticism is a love of the land. Farmed or natural.
Thin Red Line also had a key section of the film placed in grassy fields.
Rod
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very high grass mind, and full of typhus carrying mites.
Trite is not a word I'd use of that film.
I often find that my responses to war films, war series on TV, and etc are very different to most of the views expressed here.
I'm keen for war films to do two things, conveying the sheer horror and hammering noise, of battle, even a minor 'contact'. And confronting us with why we are so gutless as to not put a stop to it.
One son got me a local codec version of Band of Brothers for Xmas this year, and it is bloody marvellous to have all the episodes on working CD's.
So here's a quetion for all the murrikens here,
was anyone, anyone at all, disciplined properly for the failure to properly supply your own 101st Airborne at it's 'low anyway' level before sending it to the Bulge?
If not, here is a challenge for one of you, do the work of research and name some bloody names, and get it published. I'd be willing to bet more than half of those fingered will be privileged / preppy types!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
http://www.theanalogdept.com/tim_bailey.htm
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
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