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Post by Tricia on Oct 19, 2007 10:59:35 GMT -6
I'm only fifteen minutes into the HBO production of Dee Brown's book (I guess some would call it a novel) and they truly messed up LBH. Needless to say, this is not exactly a promising beginning. Some of my notes include:
*A rather lush landscape, evergreens all about.
*A cloudy day (were they that desperate to get it filmed)!
*Reno's battalion stalks the village on foot from--you got it--the
forest of evergreens!
*Reno's battalion also enters the village--this time on horseback. Yikes.
*Due to the clouds, and I'm guessing the chill, the Indians are dressed to the nines ... are they going to a party?
One thing they did manage to get right is the dead on Last Stand Hill--many naked bodies about. I guess that's what can happen on a paid cable network ...
Any other thoughts? I am about to throw the thing in the trash at this rate ...
--t.
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Post by crzhrs on Oct 19, 2007 12:46:19 GMT -6
Haven't seen it . . . so can't be of any help. Obviously from your description there was some "poetic license"
We'll have to go back to SOMS for anything resembling what really took place. Till then everything else is second-rate and misleading for those who don't know the specifics.
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Post by Treasuredude on Oct 19, 2007 17:43:04 GMT -6
I started watching part of it this afternoon. I didn't even realize that was supposed to be Little Big Horn until the caption came on. I thought the overhead shot of the fighting on Last Stand Hill was cool but they had the Indians riding in circles around the troopers. I guess that looked better from above than showing the warriors crawling up in the tall grass. We'll see. I'm not going to hold my breath.
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Post by Scout on Oct 19, 2007 19:11:59 GMT -6
I didn't watch it...I have high blood pressure.
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Post by Tricia on Oct 19, 2007 22:04:28 GMT -6
And I have a very low tolerance for annoying. Of course, I praise the works of a fellow Little Rockian. My mentor had a very odd experience with Dee ... and no, I don't mean that one!
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Post by Scout on Oct 20, 2007 9:41:56 GMT -6
Trish...do tell. I was schedule to meet Dee Brown at one point but as his health declined and the meeting was postponed. His book has certainly earned a spot among the immortals although I think it's mostly fiction and as Utley said one of the most lopsided presentations of American history there is.
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Post by Tricia on Oct 20, 2007 11:15:34 GMT -6
Well, I don't remember after which book it was, but somehow or another during the Arkansas Writers' Conference, Dee heard that Dusty Richards (my first mentor) was going to be in attendence, so he called the man and asked if he could join him for breakfast. Of course, Dusty was completely blown away, as Dee rarely left his house after the late 1980s ... and so for an hour they talked about their writing projects and of course, the Old West. W-O-W!
It was, perhaps, one of the most thrilling moments of Dusty's life--well, apart from appearing in the movie "Bus Stop."
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Post by Treasuredude on Oct 20, 2007 13:30:12 GMT -6
I just finished watching it. Two DVDs and I left the second one for today.
The film has many historical inaccuracies (which film doesn't?). But I gotta admit that I liked it. Adam Beach (Charles Eastman) and the guy who played Sitting Bull were excellent. I had trouble with the James McLaughlin character. I kept seeing him as the shrink from Law and Order.
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