Westerns by Brenda

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Westerns

POSTED BY: BRENDA
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Friday, June 28, 2024 1:16 PM

Watching a film called, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". It's based on a book and takes place after the Little Big Horn. It is mostly centred around the Dakota people and the setting up of the six reservations that were given to them under treaty.

One character stands out played by Adam Beach, a young Dakota who was sent east to be educated at one of the first residential schools in the US. Then he went on to become a doctor and a shining example of how the Indian could be completely civilized.

He ends up going to the Pine Ridge reservation and that is basically when he starts loosing hope for his people and hope in the white man actually helping them. He sees the start of alcoholism and the loss of hope and dignity. The disrespect shown them and the government starting to take back the land promised under treaty.

You can see his confusion as he struggles with his identity. Is he still a Dakota or just a puppet.

It also shows the rise of the Ghost Dance and the promises it made by feeding into the anger that was rising among many of the nations.

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Monday, July 1, 2024 8:25 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

i liked Adam Beach in the TV Show Third Watch, I think it was.
And then in Flags of Our Fathers - working with Clint.

I wonder - do you know? Is there anyplace else on the planet where there are "reservations" for the native indigenous peoples of a land? I don't know the details of Aborigine situation in Australia.

It seems like history shows that most are just eradicated or assimilated into the incoming conquerors.

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Monday, July 1, 2024 11:13 PM

BRENDA

Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
i liked Adam Beach in the TV Show Third Watch, I think it was.
And then in Flags of Our Fathers - working with Clint.

I wonder - do you know? Is there anyplace else on the planet where there are "reservations" for the native indigenous peoples of a land? I don't know the details of Aborigine situation in Australia.

It seems like history shows that most are just eradicated or assimilated into the incoming conquerors.

In Australia, New Zealand along with South Africa there are what I would call reservations. Not sure what they are called in Australia and New Zealand but in South Africa they were referred to as "townships".

Eradicated yes but that's why the reservations systems were set up on this continent and in Australia and New Zealand and South Africa. They were to control and force assimilation on us and others.

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Monday, July 1, 2024 11:14 PM

BRENDA

Adam Beach also worked on "Alaska Air" and he was in one of the Law & Order shows.

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Monday, August 19, 2024 9:18 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Not a western but Brenda have you seen a film called Clearcut? Stars Graham Greene, Ron Lea, Michael Hogan. Released about the same period as Dances With Wolves.

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Monday, August 19, 2024 10:54 PM

BRENDA

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Not a western but Brenda have you seen a film called Clearcut? Stars Graham Greene, Ron Lea, Michael Hogan. Released about the same period as Dances With Wolves.

No, I haven't. I'll see if my library has a copy of it.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 8:29 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Kevin Costner's movie flopped, Calamity Jane 2024 film went to download streaming, The Out-Laws film did ok its modern but was Netflix there is also 'The Outlaws' one of them has Pierce Brosnan and a car the other Eric Roberts and a train heist
HBO's Westworld tv show based on the movie is a 'Western' of sorts
peak Western might have been the 60s and 70s the other genre spin offs, the Revisionist Western, Samurai Cowboy plus Feudal Japan, the Spaghetti Western, Star Wars.

the Western will never be as big as it used to be

the new take on the genre, Space Westerns include Firefly/Serenity, Japan animation, Mandalorian, Outland has often been described as High Noon but 'in space', old Battlestar Galactica had episodes that were take-offs to classic westerns Dark Matter 2015–2017 if you take it as drunken memory loss it can feel like a 'Space Western' the video game franchise Borderlands was supposed to have a Western feel but the movie flopped, TitanFall, Starcraft maybe RimWorld is a colony-building simulator 2000 AD Dredd Universe can be Western like.

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