How many times when watching an old western movie, Indians vs. Cavalry soldiers, has that tiny voice in your head whispered "just once I want the Indians to win". That's OK, it'll be our little secret.
Imagine my shock the first time I watched "Little Big Man" from 1970 starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway and Chief Dan George. Who would dare make a movie sympathetic to Native Americans? Why Arthur Penn and Stuart Millar as director and producer. Together with an outstanding cast "Little Big Man" is movie magic, of an unusual nature.
The movie begins with a historian interviewing a 120 year old man named Jack Crabb, the only white survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn aka Custer's Last Stand. In flashback style narration, Jack Crabb tells a tale involving being captured and raised by indians, living as a tribe member and marrying an indian, and watching in disbelief as the people who raised him are killed by army soldiers under General Custer. In a strange twist of fate, Jack Crabb becomes a scout for Custer's army at the Little Big Horn.
By following the life of Jack, Little Big Man weaves a grand story with many twists, surprises, great comedy and heartbreaking tragedy. It takes a skillful storyteller to make it all appear seamless and flowing. As Jack Crabb, Dustin Hoffman was at his acting peak. He's made many movies but none better than this. Yes, I love this movie. And like a computer virus, Little Big Man loads itself into your brain, making its presence felt at unexpected moments. Quite possibly for the rest of your life.
Little Big Man on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRs2TnP9H8&feature=related
Imagine my shock the first time I watched "Little Big Man" from 1970 starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway and Chief Dan George. Who would dare make a movie sympathetic to Native Americans? Why Arthur Penn and Stuart Millar as director and producer. Together with an outstanding cast "Little Big Man" is movie magic, of an unusual nature.
The movie begins with a historian interviewing a 120 year old man named Jack Crabb, the only white survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn aka Custer's Last Stand. In flashback style narration, Jack Crabb tells a tale involving being captured and raised by indians, living as a tribe member and marrying an indian, and watching in disbelief as the people who raised him are killed by army soldiers under General Custer. In a strange twist of fate, Jack Crabb becomes a scout for Custer's army at the Little Big Horn.
By following the life of Jack, Little Big Man weaves a grand story with many twists, surprises, great comedy and heartbreaking tragedy. It takes a skillful storyteller to make it all appear seamless and flowing. As Jack Crabb, Dustin Hoffman was at his acting peak. He's made many movies but none better than this. Yes, I love this movie. And like a computer virus, Little Big Man loads itself into your brain, making its presence felt at unexpected moments. Quite possibly for the rest of your life.
Little Big Man on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRs2TnP9H8&feature=related
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How many times when watching an old western movie, Indians vs. Cavalry soldiers, has that tiny voice in your head whispered "just once I want the Indians to win". That's OK, it'll be our little secret.
Imagine my shock the first time I watched "Little Big Man" from 1970 starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway and Chief Dan George. Who would dare make a movie sympathetic to Native Americans? Why Arthur Penn and Stuart Millar as director and producer. Together with an outstanding cast "Little Big Man" is movie magic, of an unusual nature.
The movie begins with a historian interviewing a 120 year old man named Jack Crabb, the only white survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn aka Custer's Last Stand. In flashback style narration, Jack Crabb tells a tale involving being captured and raised by indians, living as a tribe member and marrying an indian, and watching in disbelief as the people who raised him are killed by army soldiers under General Custer. In a strange twist of fate, Jack Crabb becomes a scout for Custer's army at the Little Big Horn.
By following the life of Jack, Little Big Man weaves a grand story with many twists, surprises, great comedy and heartbreaking tragedy. It takes a skillful storyteller to make it all appear seamless and flowing. As Jack Crabb, Dustin Hoffman was at his acting peak. He's made many movies but none better than this. Yes, I love this movie. And like a computer virus, Little Big Man loads itself into your brain, making its presence felt at unexpected moments. Quite possibly for the rest of your life.
Little Big Man on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRs2TnP9H8&feature=related
Imagine my shock the first time I watched "Little Big Man" from 1970 starring Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway and Chief Dan George. Who would dare make a movie sympathetic to Native Americans? Why Arthur Penn and Stuart Millar as director and producer. Together with an outstanding cast "Little Big Man" is movie magic, of an unusual nature.
The movie begins with a historian interviewing a 120 year old man named Jack Crabb, the only white survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn aka Custer's Last Stand. In flashback style narration, Jack Crabb tells a tale involving being captured and raised by indians, living as a tribe member and marrying an indian, and watching in disbelief as the people who raised him are killed by army soldiers under General Custer. In a strange twist of fate, Jack Crabb becomes a scout for Custer's army at the Little Big Horn.
By following the life of Jack, Little Big Man weaves a grand story with many twists, surprises, great comedy and heartbreaking tragedy. It takes a skillful storyteller to make it all appear seamless and flowing. As Jack Crabb, Dustin Hoffman was at his acting peak. He's made many movies but none better than this. Yes, I love this movie. And like a computer virus, Little Big Man loads itself into your brain, making its presence felt at unexpected moments. Quite possibly for the rest of your life.
Little Big Man on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRs2TnP9H8&feature=related
Yeah,it was weird seeing Dustin Hoffman as a Native American. Speaking of unsual Westerns,do you remember this one with Charles Bronson?
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Yeah,it was weird seeing Dustin Hoffman as a Native American. Speaking of unsual Westerns,do you remember this one with Charles Bronson?
Rain Man as a native american?? Never seen this, but his movies are good.
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Rain Man as a native american?? Never seen this, but his movies are good.
Dustin Hoffman was awesome in Little Big Man. It's amazing, this movie is fiction that feels like fact. I was completely won over. Makes revising history seem like fun!
I consider it to be one of the best films ever made. I don't know how accurate the depiction of Custer was, but it's not hard to imagine he was like that.
Funny, I never imagined it from the perspective of Indians vs. Calvary seen through the eyes of someone raised on the John Wayne v. Indian flicks.
Great point. In 1970 it must have been the first of it's kind.
Funny, I never imagined it from the perspective of Indians vs. Calvary seen through the eyes of someone raised on the John Wayne v. Indian flicks.
Great point. In 1970 it must have been the first of it's kind.
No doubt killface. This was a movie that people talked about a lot. Could Custer really have been a mental case? There were some disturbing scenes that could make one wonder!