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No, didn't see it. I don't like several of the actors. In fact, I dis-like them.

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tinear

In Reply to: RE: That last line is troubling. nt posted by patrickU on August 17, 2008 at 08:36:38

It's hard to understand your comments but, if you mean the characters made those anti-Native-American comments, it's understandable. If it seemed the film portrayed the Natives as many traditional American films did, that's reprehensible in light of when L D was made.

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RE: No, didn't see it. I don't like several of the actors. In fact, I dis-like them. - patrickU 23:49:22 08/17/08 (1)
At the time of the making it should have been more differenciated, I fully agree.

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"...that's reprehensible in light of when L D was made." - sjb 16:58:46 08/17/08 (2)
So they shouldn't portray the era of the story as it was?

If they'd soft peddled the treatment of NA's you'd criticize it for being a whitewash and not revealing how horribly they were treated.

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- Not what I meant at all. - tinear 20:57:25 08/18/08 (1)
  If NA are portrayed as "savage," less human than the cowboys, then it's reprehensible. Some Hollywood directors of the "old days" actually respected Indians and it's obvious. Others only portrayed caricatures.
  Why do you persist in thinking the worst, s?
  - RE: Not what I meant at all. - Tom Brennan 07:05:48 08/19/08 (0)
    Well the unfortunate fact is that if any people were savages the Comanches and Kiowas were. They were cruel predators and brigands and the conflict between them and the Texans had the nature of a vendetta.
    
    The northern Indians who killed Gus weren't portrayed in a negative light.

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