A Man Called Horse
by Elliot Silverstein
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Actor: Corinna Tsopei, Jean Gascon, Judith Anderson, Manu Tupou, Richard HarrisDirector: Elliot Silverstein
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of A Man Called Horse
Movie Review: If you're into factual Indian Culture, stay away.
Summary: 2 Stars
This is another wreck of Indian ways and culture told by Hollywood story tellers, who had no idea what an Indian really was. If you look at the fact that Sioux Indians were in the North West, then why did his companion, who spoke French, was the way of Indians in the lower East of America.
Besides that, why did Harris's character, who after living with the Indians for so long, never bothered to even learn their language. At one point, he is teaching his new wife english...how sad. But, that's Hollywood, and this is an exploitation Hollywood-style, of the true and authentic Indian Cultures.
Terrible acting, sound and editing, stay away from this one. You'll be glad you did.
Summary of A Man Called Horse
A carefully documented epic that attempted to realistically portray the life of american sioux in the early 19th century. When an english lord is captured by a sioux indian tribe he is given to the chiefs aging mother as a servant. Gradually he embraces the tribes way of life. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/27/2004 Starring: Richard Harris Manu Tupou Run time: 114 minutes Rating: RAmerican Indians were a "cool" factor in 1970 cinema, the year A Man Called Horse made its vigorous, feverishly real, and occasionally shocking debut alongside Little Big Man and Soldier Blue. Unlike the latter two films, however, Horse is less an allegory for Vietnam-era America and more of a vision quest for historical identity. In one of his defining roles, Richard Harris plays an English aristocrat captured by Dakota Sioux in 1825. Over time, he adopts their way of life and eventually becomes tribal leader--but not before undergoing savage initiation rituals, the most famous of which involves being suspended by blades inserted beneath Harris's pectoral muscles. Horse looks clunky, quaint, and inadvertently demeaning in some respects today, but the film's Native American milieu is at least defined on its own terms, i.e., whole cloth and apart from familiar Western conventions. The real draw is Harris, whose performance has a soulful integrity. --Tom Keogh
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