Little Big Man
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Movie Reviews of Little Big Man
Movie Review: Digging Bear's Review
Summary: 5 Stars
A masterpiece of American cinema, pure and simple. There is no person before or since that has portrayed General George Armstrong Custer better than Richard Mulligan in this film. Dustin Hoffman gives a truly wonderful performance as Jack Crabb all the way from boyhood to an aged man of one hundred and twenty one years old. The makeup done on Mr. Hoffman for the old man scenes is incredible. You can hardly tell that it's Dustin Hoffman under it. All the Indian actors are real American Indians and the movie is so much the better for it. The man playing Little Big Man's father, who is a fine actor seen in many a western movie, should have been nominated for an Oscar for this as I do believe Richard Mulligan was. The movie can seem long at some points but as soon as you would begin to notice you yanked quickly back into another engaging predicament Mr. Crabb has gotten himself in. One of my favorites is when he becomes a gun slinger with the outragous outfit to go along with the attitude. But when he meets up with Wild Bill Hickock and sees his first dead man, he quickly changes profession. The climax of Little Big Man is probably one of greatest moments in cinema. Jack Crabb is an Indian scout for General Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It does not get any better and is a must see.Oh, and Faye Dunaway gives an erotic seduction performance that gives me goose pimples every time I see it.
Movie Review: A milestone film of the seventies!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you take a look around in this prolific decade you will realize the name of Artur Penn was a real turning point in the American Filmography. Penn walked to the sun with this legendary picture. He literally was a risky director. Indeed it's difficult if not impossible determine the winner step of his artistic approach. From the miracle worker, The chase and Bonnie and Clyde to this giant film that somehow means the hithherto of an existential Western.
It has been said the Western symbolizes the particular mythology of North America. And Penn employed all his efforts,supported by a witty script, to reveal the growing up process of a simple man from the innocence to the experience: the painful but necessary step to reach the beloved pearl.
Hoffman was simply superb in this film. I still remember in the interview made by James Lipton (Inside the Actor's studio) that Penn said to Hoffman how to face the decisive sequence in which he is sent to a secure death: he proposed to assume in a deep and challenging proccess of ancient memories how he would feel in case to find in the Concentration Camp just before to be exterminated. So Hoffman kept this valuable advise in mind and produced that overwhelming facial expression hard to forget in all the Cinema Story.
This work is included among my 200 top cult movies in any age.
Movie Review: my favorite western movie
Summary: 5 Stars
as a person who hates most " westerns" this and SHANE are my 2 all time best western movies. SHANE for its gritty fight scenes and magnificent acting LITTLE BIG MAN for its realism of what happend out west with out moralizing. a movie that is tragic at one moment and comic the next, this film captures the demise of the red race as white settlers move west with the culmination of custers last stand at the battle of little big horn in montana.hoffman is just great as jack crabb the 121 year old surviver of that battle as he relates his life story to a reporter told in flash back style in 1971. drifting from the whites to the indians back and forth in a series of mis adventures jack crab goes through history that makes anyone watching envious to be him. jack does just about everything possible and fate has him personally tricking general custer in to going in to the battle of little big horn with a revenge motive that is just and satisfying. ( so diverse was the united states at this time that just a day before the battle people only 1000 miles away filed into ball parks to see baseball games and munch hot dogs and drink beer) a movie that i could look at again and again ( and often do). martin balsam and faye dunaway are also great through out. arthur penns best directorial effortMovie Review: Timeless Film
Summary: 5 Stars
Little Big Man is one of my all time favorite movies fro many reasons. Dustin Hoffman gives what I believe to be his greatest performance as Jack Crabb. His range here is incredible as he portrays a man torn between two cultures and his life weaves back and forth between the white world and the indian world in which he was raised. His performance is funny when appropriate and yet filled with pathos and emotion when the necessary. An absolute masterful job of acting. The Cheyenne scenes are moving and Ghief Dan george who plays Crabb's adoptive grandfather provides the film with gravity as he consistently demnonstrates wisdom and dignity despite the increasingly difficult circumstances that his tribe finds themselves in.
I don't know the actor's name who plays Custer but he provides just the right amount of comic bravado to make Custer seem to be a pathetic character who's hubris led to his troops demise. While this may or may not be an historically acurate portrayal it certainly fits the mood of the film.
Other famous western personalities such as Wild Bill Hickock are included in the story as Jack Crabb's life zig-zags it's way through the west. A fabulous ride and a very memorable film to be enjoyed again and again.
Movie Review: Funny and wise
Summary: 5 Stars
Dustin Hoffman is 121-year-old fictional Jack Crabb, and the movie is a recounting of his life: captured by the Cheyenne at age 10, he is raised by them; after that his life is a series of adventures - as a gunfighter and buddy of Wild Bill Hickok, medicine peddler, and with the hated Custer at the Last Stand. He frequently returns to the beloved Cheyenne, the Human Beings, as if for a respite from the crazy whites. Chief Dan George, who plays Old Lodge Skins, referred to by Crabb as "grandfather," is magnificent and almost steals the picture from Hoffman. The story is told in a wonderful convoluted way, with characters crisscrossing throughout Crabb's life, and much of the story is bitingly humorous. Not only does the movie relate much western history and lore, but identity and where a person fits in the world is also explored. Fascinating, different, and always entertaining - a refreshing and vibrant movie. (The book by Thomas Berger, same title, is just as good if not better. A must read if you like the movie [and vice-versa].)