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The French General, De Montecalm and Colonel Munro where also real historical figures. Nathaniel aka Hawkeye and Chingcagook are borh composite characters who here inspired by Severak men Cooper's father had known upon settling in Upstate new York(the town of Cooperstown is named for The authors father)
"Last of the Mohicans" being your dad's favorite movie reminds me of "Last of the Mohicans" being the only book Hawkeye's dad ever read in "M.A.S.H." Ironically, thanks to "Last of the Mohicans" and "Taken," whenever I hear someone say "I will find you," I simultaneously think "Stay alive no matter what occurs" and "I will kill you."
Another one of my all-time favorite movies! The music and cinematography are some of the best ever. I live in North Carolina where this was filmed, and visiting Chimney Rock Park and hiking the cliff trail to the waterfall was a big highlight in my life! Great reaction!
As a New Yorker, it always bugged me that this took place in New York, upstate, but it wasn’t filmed there. But I get it, New York is high tax, costly, and unfriendly to moviemaking.
I thought 'uh-oh' when you said you weren't ready for a sad movie but I knew the romantic music and story would probably keep you steady. notice the car chase with canoes? wes studi's magua is one of the great film villains.
"The Last of the Mohicans" is a classic novel written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. While I love this movie, it barely covers the scale of the novel. Your Dad sounds like a smart man! 😀
Cooper is often considered among the first, if not the first, popular novel writer in U.S. history. He definitely wrote about American topics and themes, including these frontier novels, called the "Leatherstocking Tales." Of course, they are pretty dated at this point, but you can argue that they were the origin of the later Westerns (both books and movies). You could call this movie an "Eastern."
@@johnalden5821 probably because I've read it in German. Maybe my Dad has an older and better translated version of "Lederstrumpf" in his shelf somewhere... I love "Moby Dick" I read it at least once a year, together with "Lord of the Rings" and "The count of Monte Christo" - I just love the classics :)
@@jahrolo Total props. I kept bogging down in the mid-section where Melville discusses (at length) the (incorrect) taxonomy of whales and other "fishes" along with the detailed discussion of a dissected whale. Very 19th century.
Good reaction for a very fitting father's day movie. Not only is it your Dad's favorite, but the plot basically revolves around fatherhood in various forms.
Filmed in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, which I call home; I believe you can take a tour of the different waterfalls and other filming sites tho I could be mistaken
One of my all time favorite movies! I live in Boone,NC and work in Blowing Rock, NC, which is in the Blue Ridge Mountains not far from where this was filmed! I get to see this view daily! 🥰 I love your reactions! You’re accent is the absolute best!! ❤
Wes Studi (Magua) and Eric Schweig (Uncas) are very good actors and are in a number of other movies, particularly ones that have to do with native americans. West Studi is Cherokee. Eric Schweig is German and Inuit. Other Wes Studi movies include "Dances with Wolves", "Geronimo", "Older than America", and "Skinwalkers: The Navajo Mysteries", all of which I recommend.
Also Chingook (?) is played by the late great Russell Means and the Sachem is played by the late great Dennis Banks, both very active in the native movements when they were here.
Trivia: West Studi, who played Magua, was awed by Daniel and worked up the courage to have a chat with him. When Studi felt comfortable enough he asked for the actors autograph. - "Sure", Daniel said - "No, no, no. With your left foot!" Studi got his autograph...
My 4th great aunt Jenny Wiley was taken prisoner by a war party and they killer children. She managed to escape. She is buried here in Kentucky not far from me. This movie is pretty accurate.
Your Dad has amazing taste. A great movie with a excellent cast and an outstanding soundtrack. It was filmed in Smokey Mountain National Park, which is a natural treasure in the Eastern US. The setting however in what is now Upstate New York. Thanks for the incredible reaction, your posts are always top notch. Also, thanks for the Father’s Day greeting. Give you Father and your kids’ pop some love today!!! Best!
The Smokies are beautiful but can also be treacherous weather-wise. They are some of the tallest mountains in the eastern U.S., and the weather can be colder and wetter than the surrounding states, well into late spring and even early summer. Plus, they are pretty rugged for hiking. Good to be experienced and prepared.
The guns were often long and thin to give better accuracy. Musket balls would start moving off of a straight line as soon as they left the barrel, so longer barrels gave a little bit of an improvement.
The standard infantry musket had no rifle ing so it was made accurate too about 50 yards . Hawkeye has a rifle which has grooves in the barrel this makes the ball spin improving acutucre and range. Problem at the time was most rifle had hexagon barrels meaning you could not fit a bayonet . So most 1700 army did not use rifles and if they did only samll units
14:03 . . "That was a little bit comical. . . " No it wasn't. . . Daniel Day-Lewis *REALLY* LEARNED how to RELOAD a musket with powder and ball WHILE RUNNING!! AND he learned how to shoot TWO muskets at the same time at TWO different targets. . . . while RUNNING! He LITERALLY CAN do that. . . (well he could at the time of filming the movie) It was based on actual skills that frontiersmen at the time had. .
This is my second favorite film of all time! Your father has excellent taste! As you are someone from the UK, you should facepalm over not knowing who Daniel Day-Lewis is! He's an Oscar winner and one of the greatest actors of the 20th-century regarded with awe by other top professionals as an actor's actor. He is married to Arthur Miller's daughter. If you want to see him in full villain mode, watch "Gangs of New York" or "There Will Be Blood". Michael Mann's direction is kinetic and immersive. His compositions are painterly. Dante Spinotti's cinematography is atmospheric and lush using mostly natural light sources. The score by Trevor Jones is rousing and sweeping. The screenplay by Mann himself and Christopher Crowe bristles with authenticity, intelligence and ferocity! The action is phenomenal and inventive including a canoe chase! The period detail is assiduous. Colonial America feels rough-hewn and primeval. The chemistry between Madeleine Stowe and Daniel Day-Lewis is electric! The cast is uniformly excellent. Cora's impassioned speech to her father advocating sedition and her withering condemnation of Duncan are beautifully delivered by Madeleine Stowe. I always find Duncan's redemption by substituting himself for Nathaniel when Nathaniel pleads to take Cora's place in the fire to be very moving. He did love her but it went unrequited. Chingachgook, played by Native American activist Russell Means, has a terrific speech at the end of the Director's Cut where he laments being the last of his tribe. He goes on to say that one day his white son, Nathaniel, will also be the last of his kind, a frontiersman, as civilization pushes westward bending the natural world to its will. This is based on James Fenimore Cooper's frontier classic "The Last of the Mohicans" written in 1826 but bears little resemblance to the details of the novel. Cooper wrote a pentalogy of stories about Day-Lewis' character, Nathaniel Bumppo, who went by several names including Deerslayer, Hawkeye, La Longue Carabine, Pathfinder, Leatherstocking and The Trapper. The stories chronicle his life from 1740-1806. "Mohicans" is the second tale chronologically. The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the first global war, The Seven Years' War, from 1756-1763. Battles raged in Eastern colonial North America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Trans-Atlantic and the Far East between England, France, Spain and Prussia. George Washington's military exploits occurred in this war which is one of the reasons he was chosen to lead the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The attack on Fort William Henry and the ensuing massacre are real events. The callous and condescending treatment of the colonials by the British officers show the first stirrings of colonial resentment to the British crown which would ultimately erupt in The Revolutionary War. Native American tribes in North America allied with different colonial powers. Magua is able to infiltrate the British ranks as a guide because the Brits can't tell the indigenous tribes apart. French General Montcalm, a real historical figure, made it a point to acculturate himself with his indigenous allies and show respect to their people in order to secure a loyal bond. Nathaniel advised Cora to remain close to her father and the British officers because the French officers would afford them protection as fellow aristocrats. The enlisted man was considered an unwashed peasant good for cannon fodder. Lol. Magua was stirred by Alice's defiance and suicide. He was resentful of the Sachem's judgment and took her grudgingly but her loyalty to Uncas and her bravery demonstrated she would make a good mate given time. For the first time, he could conceive of something beyond vengeance but Alice wasn't having it. If Uncas had told her to stay alive as Nathaniel had Cora, she might not have acted so rashly.
Hey Dawn, nice choice, And that was lovely you paid a little homage to your father. I am a little disappointed though. I thought we were going to get a bit more of a cry. As always you're awesome ❤️💚☘️
40+ year old fella whose seen this film half a dozen times and the end still has me in tears. Mind you, I'm from South of the Wall so I was in tears on Friday night as well 😂
It’s my dads favourite movie I sneakily watched the last bit when I was a kid it’s been my favourite since. Alice is my favourite character such a brave ending.
‘The Last of the Mohicans’ was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. Thats 69 years after the date of the story. It was one of the first nationwide best sellers in America. Today a story set 69 years ago would be 1952.
I’m old, so in 1986 I was in high school and we had a summer reading list. I was not excited. On our shelves my parents had a set of “classics”, one of which was The Last of the Mohicans so I started reading it. It was my first experience with a book I couldn’t put down. I love the book til this day.
"Great Spirit, Maker of All Life. A warrior goes to you swift and straight as an arrow shot into the sun. Welcome him and let him take his place at the council fire of my people. He is Uncas, my son. Tell them to be patient and ask death for speed; for they are all there but one - I, Chingachgook - Last of the Mohicans." Gets me every time. 😭
Good movie, Dawn Marie, thanks. I had seen it before, but it was so long ago. 'Nice watching it again with you. You're good movie company - you don't talk too much. Good job -
an even better movie set in the western frontier is "Jeremiah Johnson" from 1972 with Robert Redford , it has the Indians and a love story and some sadness, think you will love it.
Being native Canadian I was proud at first about this movie bcuz there were actual natives in this movie. It shows a fictional depiction of one part of the war. And it certainly does show how after with native help in every single conflict any army be it France or England they needed native help. And evey single time they turned around and tried to kill us off.
They where playing Lacrosse. A native American invented game that is still played in America today. Its was played by the tribes mostly In the Mid Atlantic a d Northeastern Woodlands(Virginia north to Maine and into Eastern Canada) and in some other areas as well. The Native Americans called it some variation of The Creator's game, it had ritual significance. French Catholic missionaries named it Lacrosse. Its still hugely popular in various parts of the United States and Canada including the games heartland of The Mid Atlantic/ Northeastern US and Eastern Canada but its also popular in the Great lakes region(Illinois, Michigan) Colorado, and California. Played by both men and Women with the woman's game has rules limiting physical contact compared to the Mens game where its as brutal as ice hockey
Like Rugby in the US, College level Lacrosse is dominated by schools with extremely high academic standards like Johns Hopkins (the top US medical school), and the Ivy League schools (Harvard, Yale) and other top research universities.
Another good one with Madeleine Stowe is "the 13 Monkeys" time travel story with Bruce Willis. Wes Studi as Magua the bad guy, played the Sphynx, superhero with mystical abilities in "Mystery Men" .
"I probably should know who Daniel Day-Lewis is." The greatest actor...possibly EVER. 3 Oscars, 4 BAFTA's, 2 Golden Globes. Father's Day connection! - Daniel Day-Lewis and Pete Postlethwaite (one of Colonel Munro's officers) starred together as father and son in "In The Name Of The Father" which tells the story of the Guildford Four.
Gosh remembering how in love I was with both Nathaniel and Uncas lol. I felt bad for you when you said you weren’t prepared for a sad movie. 😩 Still so stirring, especially the ending. Glad you liked it!
This is the newest movie of my own Dad's like top 10 favorite movies. Most are before the 1990's. He just passed a couple of months ago. I'm not looking for sympathy. I'm just saying I've enjoyed your reactions so far and I like that we have this very slight connection between our dad's. Happy Father's Day to your Dad. 🙂
The Nez Perce tribal lands in the state of Idaho is some of the most amazing looking land I've ever seen. If you ever get a chance - take a drive through Central and Northern Idaho, you won't regret it.
The Huron (Wyandot) were not of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee). The Iroquois and the Huron were bitter rivals. In the end, the Iroquois tribes wiped out the Huron people all for the monopoly on fur trade.
@@stefanforrer2573 No, that would be a stupid statement. American, Canadian, Australian, South African, and the Lingua Franca languages are of English language extraction. English, German, Austrian, Nederlandish, Danish, and Swiss are of Gothic language extraction. French, Italian, Spanish, and Romanian are of Latin language extraction. And never the twain shall meet.
Even though the setting was upstate New York, a lot of the filming was done near Lake Lure, North Carolina and the Chimney Rock area with the waterfall and cliff scenes.
Hey Marie; I love this movie 👍👍👍I watched it as a teenager far in the 90s mate ..my interest for native Americans started with this film Super nice Reaktion✌️😉🤙 Greets and cheers MIK
I've been hoping for someone to do Tootsie for a long time. It's clever, funny, has big stars, was super popular and had 1 Oscar win and 9 nominations. What's not to like?
No, lacrosse evolved from a game played by Native Americans, as the movie indicates. It has North American origins. It was originally played by large numbers of people on each side (scores or more than 100), and it was most definitely full-contact. It was a ritual game designed to promote bravery and simulate warfare, and it was done to honor the creator. So, not hockey.
I love how you said you were to quickly check to see if there's anything after the credits After credit scenes are a phenomenon more or less invented in the last 10 years or so Made me smile though
There are many different Native American tribes. Allied to the British were.. hang on a sec..... what, I forget things. I'm getting old you know. The British allies were the Iroquois. The French had the Abenaki, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Huron.
Funnily enough I've never seen this either and I'm a big movie fan. Never really wanted to see this. Until now. As always a brilliant reaction review. Now gonna watch the full movie.
In highschool we had to do a short presentation on indians. Our team just submitted a bunch of clips from this movie... somehow we still got an A. (edit: although thinking about it some more, the movie had just come out on vhs so maybe our teacher hadn't seen it yet)
Great pick, Dad. The beautiful mountains of NC are a decent enough representation of upstate NY. Mr Cooper wrote a hyped up version of Daniel Boone's rescue of his daughter. I think George Washington accidentally started this very real war in North America. The massacre of Ft William Henry happened. The British payed a bounty for scalps as proof of conquest. NORTHWEST PASSAGE, DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK, MANY RIVERS TO CROSS are just three of the great films depicting this time frame.
Very happy that you watched this! This is up there for me on movies that I love. I watched this the first time many years ago with my dad. For the longest time I really didn't enjoy it. Mostly because of how dated everything inside of it was, I had poor taste as a youngster. Glad that I wised up though! :D
Not to take anything away from all his other great films, this was the one Michael Mann was born to make! It's an action film, a romance, a metaphorical film, and a great piece of historical fiction. Great cast and music too. . .Only problem is that in his director's cut, Mann cut two of my favorite lines from the theatrical release.
Someone said that you could have walked/traveled from the Appalachians to the Mississippi and been under a canopy of trees the entire way. Probably if you had kinda stayed near to the Ohio River the whole way.
@@thomast8539 It's less about the rivers than human habitation using them for building materials and firewood. There are still huge unbroken areas of trees up north in the arctic circle where humans seldom tread.
I LOVE this movie! The cinematography! The score! So many scenes are framed as if they were a painting! The cast was superb. Russell Means who played Chingachgook was National Director of the American Indian Movement and literally fought against the US Army when they besieged Wouned Knee. I could talk about this movie all day!
WRONG. Russell Means' group and another had a confrontation with the FBI, Federal Marshals, police agencies, and a goon squad from the local government. The incident with the US Army occurred in 1890. If you're going to talk about it, at least know what you're talking about.
@@ffjsb I admit I did not know the details, and repeated what was told to me. I am very sorry for speaking in ignorance. Looking up the second Wounded Knee incident on Wikipedia, I see that location was chosen for the symbolic value of the earlier confrontation with the Army. My impression of Russell Means as a badass is unchanged, and the I feel the incident was worth mentioning in relation to him. My apologies.
@@michaelnolan6951 Indeed Russell Means has proven his bona fides, and is worth bringing up since he his not an actor by trade. The Wounded Knee incident you're referring to occurred in 1973 on the same reservation as the massacre that occurred there. I believe even the Nebraska National Guard has been activated to provide support to US Government forces since most Native American affairs are federal ones. The GOONs being referred to are the Guardians Of the Oglala Nation. Tribal partisans with political power on that reservation at that time whose origins trace back to a point in time after settlement on their respective reservation, and were of the belief that traditional ways and governance were obstacles if their tribe was to prosper under the new way of life the reservation system allowed. It's really interesting, if not sad, how this one group of Lakota struggled to come to terms with how to go forward under the "protective yolk" of the United States.
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13:43 "Thought they were going to get there just in time." We all did, Dawn, the first time we watched we all did...
Speaking of the soundtrack, the main violin/fiddle riff that plays throughout the movie is taken from the song The Gael, by Scotsman Dougie Maclean.
The Gael gives me chills every time
Based on a work of fiction. The fort battle, the slaughter and issues with the settlers were all real. Love your reactions.
The French General, De Montecalm and Colonel Munro where also real historical figures.
Nathaniel aka Hawkeye and Chingcagook are borh composite characters who here inspired by Severak men Cooper's father had known upon settling in Upstate new York(the town of Cooperstown is named for The authors father)
@@Aaron-io8vw go read the Allan W. Eckert historical novels. Start with “The Frontiersmen”. Best works for the period out there.
@@Aaron-io8vw Also general Wolf was a real person Fort William Henery and Fort Edward real forts
The reactions of "Oh God..." mixed with blank staring into the screen and no emotion lolol.
@@treerat7631 don't you mean General Daniel Webb?
"Last of the Mohicans" being your dad's favorite movie reminds me of "Last of the Mohicans" being the only book Hawkeye's dad ever read in "M.A.S.H."
Ironically, thanks to "Last of the Mohicans" and "Taken," whenever I hear someone say "I will find you," I simultaneously think "Stay alive no matter what occurs" and "I will kill you."
The hair cut is a Mohawk as well as a Native American nation. The Mohicans were also a native American nation that lived near the Mohawk.
Another one of my all-time favorite movies! The music and cinematography are some of the best ever. I live in North Carolina where this was filmed, and visiting Chimney Rock Park and hiking the cliff trail to the waterfall was a big highlight in my life! Great reaction!
As a New Yorker, it always bugged me that this took place in New York, upstate, but it wasn’t filmed there. But I get it, New York is high tax, costly, and unfriendly to moviemaking.
“I’m looking at you, Miss.” 😍
I thought 'uh-oh' when you said you weren't ready for a sad movie but I knew the romantic music and story would probably keep you steady.
notice the car chase with canoes? wes studi's magua is one of the great film villains.
Yeah, he get's it in Dances With Wolves too. Wes is a good man.
Played the Sphynx, superhero with mystical abilities in "Mystery Men" .
At least you didn't ask, "Where are the buffaloes?" : D
To be fair they are in another prominent native American related film from the same era.
@@mnomadvfx Geronimo? Hehehe.
This was a great choice, Dad has good taste!
"The Last of the Mohicans" is a classic novel written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. While I love this movie, it barely covers the scale of the novel. Your Dad sounds like a smart man! 😀
I´ve tried to read it - as much as I love "Moby Dick", "The last of the mohicans" was just unreadable for me :(
Cooper is often considered among the first, if not the first, popular novel writer in U.S. history. He definitely wrote about American topics and themes, including these frontier novels, called the "Leatherstocking Tales." Of course, they are pretty dated at this point, but you can argue that they were the origin of the later Westerns (both books and movies). You could call this movie an "Eastern."
@@jahrolo At least you got through Moby Dick -- that one took me three tries.
@@johnalden5821 probably because I've read it in German. Maybe my Dad has an older and better translated version of "Lederstrumpf" in his shelf somewhere... I love "Moby Dick" I read it at least once a year, together with "Lord of the Rings" and "The count of Monte Christo" - I just love the classics :)
@@jahrolo Total props. I kept bogging down in the mid-section where Melville discusses (at length) the (incorrect) taxonomy of whales and other "fishes" along with the detailed discussion of a dissected whale. Very 19th century.
Daniel Day-Lewis brings his A game every time, i loved him in Gangs of New York
Good reaction for a very fitting father's day movie. Not only is it your Dad's favorite, but the plot basically revolves around fatherhood in various forms.
Dougie MacLean did the tune The Gael for this movie, an epic piece of music by a great Scotsman!
The theme song "I Will Follow", is performed by the great Irish band Clannad.
I've been a huge fan of Clannad since the 1970's. Maire (Moya) has the most beautiful singing voice I've ever heard.
I was about to correct you, that it was the great Irish band U2... but then I realized.
Filmed in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, which I call home; I believe you can take a tour of the different waterfalls and other filming sites tho I could be mistaken
One of my all time favorite movies! I live in Boone,NC and work in Blowing Rock, NC, which is in the Blue Ridge Mountains not far from where this was filmed! I get to see this view daily! 🥰 I love your reactions! You’re accent is the absolute best!! ❤
Wes Studi (Magua) and Eric Schweig (Uncas) are very good actors and are in a number of other movies, particularly ones that have to do with native americans. West Studi is Cherokee. Eric Schweig is German and Inuit. Other Wes Studi movies include "Dances with Wolves", "Geronimo", "Older than America", and "Skinwalkers: The Navajo Mysteries", all of which I recommend.
Wes also plays the role of Chief Seth in " The Broken Chain" and he is Red Cloud in " Crazy Horse "..
Also Chingook (?) is played by the late great Russell Means and the Sachem is played by the late great Dennis Banks, both very active in the native movements when they were here.
Trivia: West Studi, who played Magua, was awed by Daniel and worked up the courage to have a chat with him. When Studi felt comfortable enough he asked for the actors autograph.
- "Sure", Daniel said
- "No, no, no. With your left foot!"
Studi got his autograph...
My 4th great aunt Jenny Wiley was taken prisoner by a war party and they killer children. She managed to escape. She is buried here in Kentucky not far from me. This movie is pretty accurate.
Your Dad has amazing taste. A great movie with a excellent cast and an outstanding soundtrack. It was filmed in Smokey Mountain National Park, which is a natural treasure in the Eastern US. The setting however in what is now Upstate New York. Thanks for the incredible reaction, your posts are always top notch. Also, thanks for the Father’s Day greeting. Give you Father and your kids’ pop some love today!!! Best!
The Smokies are beautiful but can also be treacherous weather-wise. They are some of the tallest mountains in the eastern U.S., and the weather can be colder and wetter than the surrounding states, well into late spring and even early summer. Plus, they are pretty rugged for hiking. Good to be experienced and prepared.
One of my all time favs.. the scenery, the way it is shot, the music, the acing Belissimo
The actual fort still exists and is located at Lake George in upstate New York. Me and my family used to vacation in Lake George when I was a kid.
The music in this movie is sooo good!
The guns were often long and thin to give better accuracy. Musket balls would start moving off of a straight line as soon as they left the barrel, so longer barrels gave a little bit of an improvement.
That's because the barrels weren't rifled.
The standard infantry musket had no rifle ing so it was made accurate too about 50 yards . Hawkeye has a rifle which has grooves in the barrel this makes the ball spin improving acutucre and range. Problem at the time was most rifle had hexagon barrels meaning you could not fit a bayonet . So most 1700 army did not use rifles and if they did only samll units
14:03 . . "That was a little bit comical. . . "
No it wasn't. . .
Daniel Day-Lewis *REALLY* LEARNED how to RELOAD a musket with powder and ball WHILE RUNNING!!
AND he learned how to shoot TWO muskets at the same time at TWO different targets. . . . while RUNNING!
He LITERALLY CAN do that. . . (well he could at the time of filming the movie)
It was based on actual skills that frontiersmen at the time had. .
I saw this in the theater with my dad. It's always been a favorite.
Great reaction. Your father and now you have great taste in movies.
This is my second favorite film of all time! Your father has excellent taste!
As you are someone from the UK, you should facepalm over not knowing who Daniel Day-Lewis is! He's an Oscar winner and one of the greatest actors of the 20th-century regarded with awe by other top professionals as an actor's actor. He is married to Arthur Miller's daughter. If you want to see him in full villain mode, watch "Gangs of New York" or "There Will Be Blood".
Michael Mann's direction is kinetic and immersive. His compositions are painterly.
Dante Spinotti's cinematography is atmospheric and lush using mostly natural light sources.
The score by Trevor Jones is rousing and sweeping.
The screenplay by Mann himself and Christopher Crowe bristles with authenticity, intelligence and ferocity!
The action is phenomenal and inventive including a canoe chase!
The period detail is assiduous.
Colonial America feels rough-hewn and primeval.
The chemistry between Madeleine Stowe and Daniel Day-Lewis is electric!
The cast is uniformly excellent.
Cora's impassioned speech to her father advocating sedition and her withering condemnation of Duncan are beautifully delivered by Madeleine Stowe.
I always find Duncan's redemption by substituting himself for Nathaniel when Nathaniel pleads to take Cora's place in the fire to be very moving. He did love her but it went unrequited.
Chingachgook, played by Native American activist Russell Means, has a terrific speech at the end of the Director's Cut where he laments being the last of his tribe. He goes on to say that one day his white son, Nathaniel, will also be the last of his kind, a frontiersman, as civilization pushes westward bending the natural world to its will.
This is based on James Fenimore Cooper's frontier classic "The Last of the Mohicans" written in 1826 but bears little resemblance to the details of the novel.
Cooper wrote a pentalogy of stories about Day-Lewis' character, Nathaniel Bumppo, who went by several names including Deerslayer, Hawkeye, La Longue Carabine, Pathfinder, Leatherstocking and The Trapper. The stories chronicle his life from 1740-1806. "Mohicans" is the second tale chronologically.
The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the first global war, The Seven Years' War, from 1756-1763.
Battles raged in Eastern colonial North America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Trans-Atlantic and the Far East between England, France, Spain and Prussia.
George Washington's military exploits occurred in this war which is one of the reasons he was chosen to lead the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
The attack on Fort William Henry and the ensuing massacre are real events.
The callous and condescending treatment of the colonials by the British officers show the first stirrings of colonial resentment to the British crown which would ultimately erupt in The Revolutionary War.
Native American tribes in North America allied with different colonial powers.
Magua is able to infiltrate the British ranks as a guide because the Brits can't tell the indigenous tribes apart.
French General Montcalm, a real historical figure, made it a point to acculturate himself with his indigenous allies and show respect to their people in order to secure a loyal bond.
Nathaniel advised Cora to remain close to her father and the British officers because the French officers would afford them protection as fellow aristocrats.
The enlisted man was considered an unwashed peasant good for cannon fodder. Lol.
Magua was stirred by Alice's defiance and suicide. He was resentful of the Sachem's judgment and took her grudgingly but her loyalty to Uncas and her bravery demonstrated she would make a good mate given time. For the first time, he could conceive of something beyond vengeance but Alice wasn't having it. If Uncas had told her to stay alive as Nathaniel had Cora, she might not have acted so rashly.
I love this film, gives me great memories of one of many cinema trips with my dad when I was younger. We both LOVED the soundtrack as well.
The letter from Webb was authentic. The French intercepted the courier who was sent by General Webb.
Hey Dawn, nice choice, And that was lovely you paid a little homage to your father. I am a little disappointed though. I thought we were going to get a bit more of a cry. As always you're awesome ❤️💚☘️
"Why am I going to want to watch a movie that's about the last of a certain haircut?" Hilarious! (I think you were thinking "Mohawk" by the way. LOL.)
The British tend to call the hairstyle a mohican. Mohawk and Mohican are synonymous, with slight variations.
@@5stardave I did not know that. Makes sense!
The Mohicans are not all gone many of them live on the Stockbridge reservation here in Wisconsin
40+ year old fella whose seen this film half a dozen times and the end still has me in tears. Mind you, I'm from South of the Wall so I was in tears on Friday night as well 😂
I GREW UP IN THOSE EXACT PRISTINE GORGEOUS MOUNTAINS. I STILL RESIDE CLOSE TODAY IN UPSTATE SC. GRRRRRR8 VIDEEEEEO DARLIN
The movie is based on a book, but the reality is even more gruesome. Though the Mohicans are still around the tribe has not disappeared.
It’s my dads favourite movie I sneakily watched the last bit when I was a kid it’s been my favourite since. Alice is my favourite character such a brave ending.
‘The Last of the Mohicans’ was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. Thats 69 years after the date of the story. It was one of the first nationwide best sellers in America. Today a story set 69 years ago would be 1952.
The music at about 12:00 is a song Clannad performed specifically for this movie. It became one of their greatest hits.
I’m old, so in 1986 I was in high school and we had a summer reading list. I was not excited. On our shelves my parents had a set of “classics”, one of which was The Last of the Mohicans so I started reading it. It was my first experience with a book I couldn’t put down. I love the book til this day.
“Classics Illustrated”
Loved your reaction ❤❤❤
This is my favorite movie next to 1981 Excalibur
"Great Spirit, Maker of All Life. A warrior goes to you swift and straight as an arrow shot into the sun. Welcome him and let him take his place at the council fire of my people. He is Uncas, my son. Tell them to be patient and ask death for speed; for they are all there but one - I, Chingachgook - Last of the Mohicans."
Gets me every time. 😭
Good movie, Dawn Marie, thanks. I had seen it before, but it was so long ago. 'Nice watching it again with you. You're good movie company - you don't talk too much.
Good job -
an even better movie set in the western frontier is "Jeremiah Johnson" from 1972 with Robert Redford , it has the Indians and a love story and some sadness, think you will love it.
Jeremiah Johnson made his way into the mountains....He was bettin' on forgettin' all the troubles that he knew....
The hairstyle was called a Mohawk, named after the Mohawk Indians, not the Mohicans.
Very nostalgic from watching this movie in 9th grade history class. Classic movie from Michael Mann along with Heat and the artistic Miami Vice.
One of my favorite films & favorite musical scores of all time. Daniel Day Lewis is amazing in this.
Being native Canadian I was proud at first about this movie bcuz there were actual natives in this movie. It shows a fictional depiction of one part of the war. And it certainly does show how after with native help in every single conflict any army be it France or England they needed native help. And evey single time they turned around and tried to kill us off.
I watch this movie so many times in the early 90s it was my favorite growing up.
Your dad has great taste in movies, also my favorite movie of all time..;)
They where playing Lacrosse. A native American invented game that is still played in America today. Its was played by the tribes mostly In the Mid Atlantic a d Northeastern Woodlands(Virginia north to Maine and into Eastern Canada) and in some other areas as well.
The Native Americans called it some variation of The Creator's game, it had ritual significance. French Catholic missionaries named it Lacrosse. Its still hugely popular in various parts of the United States and Canada including the games heartland of The Mid Atlantic/ Northeastern US and Eastern Canada but its also popular in the Great lakes region(Illinois, Michigan) Colorado, and California. Played by both men and Women with the woman's game has rules limiting physical contact compared to the Mens game where its as brutal as ice hockey
Like Rugby in the US, College level Lacrosse is dominated by schools with extremely high academic standards like Johns Hopkins (the top US medical school), and the Ivy League schools (Harvard, Yale) and other top research universities.
Another good one with Madeleine Stowe is "the 13 Monkeys" time travel story with Bruce Willis.
Wes Studi as Magua the bad guy, played the Sphynx, superhero with mystical abilities in "Mystery Men" .
Strong movie with a good storyline and well searched cast.
First R rated movie my parents ever let my twin sister and me watch. We watched it with them, and it was absolutely wonderful!
"I probably should know who Daniel Day-Lewis is." The greatest actor...possibly EVER. 3 Oscars, 4 BAFTA's, 2 Golden Globes.
Father's Day connection! - Daniel Day-Lewis and Pete Postlethwaite (one of Colonel Munro's officers) starred together as father and son in "In The Name Of The Father" which tells the story of the Guildford Four.
I really liked that British Major. He came across as very arrogant; but in the end, he did the most noble act possible.
Gosh remembering how in love I was with both Nathaniel and Uncas lol. I felt bad for you when you said you weren’t prepared for a sad movie. 😩 Still so stirring, especially the ending. Glad you liked it!
This is the newest movie of my own Dad's like top 10 favorite movies. Most are before the 1990's. He just passed a couple of months ago. I'm not looking for sympathy. I'm just saying I've enjoyed your reactions so far and I like that we have this very slight connection between our dad's. Happy Father's Day to your Dad. 🙂
I have watched this movie many many times. The final 15 minutes are some of the best in movie history. Your dad had good taste
The Nez Perce tribal lands in the state of Idaho is some of the most amazing looking land I've ever seen. If you ever get a chance - take a drive through Central and Northern Idaho, you won't regret it.
Coeur d'Alene tribal lands are better. Ha ha!!
Happy Father’s Day to all dads who have been let down by the Scottish courts x
It’s based on Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimoore Cooper if you didn’t catch that in the credits.
Also, the fact that the story takes place during the global Seven Years’ War adds a lot of context that might get missed.
Magua was Huron, not Mohican. Huron were of the Iroquois, Mohican were of the Algonquians. They were very much enemies.
Kinda like Eastside vs. Westside.
The Huron (Wyandot) were not of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee). The Iroquois and the Huron were bitter rivals. In the end, the Iroquois tribes wiped out the Huron people all for the monopoly on fur trade.
@@StinkyGreenBud The Huron language is a Iroquois based language, unlike the Mohican.
@@HemlockRidge you can't break it down like that.... that's like saying americans are of the australian people because they speak english too
@@stefanforrer2573 No, that would be a stupid statement. American, Canadian, Australian, South African, and the Lingua Franca languages are of English language extraction. English, German, Austrian, Nederlandish, Danish, and Swiss are of Gothic language extraction. French, Italian, Spanish, and Romanian are of Latin language extraction. And never the twain shall meet.
This movie has stayed with me for years.
I Will Find You. By Clannad. One of Ireland's finest ever folk bands
Thank you, daughter.
Even though the setting was upstate New York, a lot of the filming was done near Lake Lure, North Carolina and the Chimney Rock area with the waterfall and cliff scenes.
Absolutely gorgeous area, and you can walk on the trails on the cliff where the fight scene is, but there are railings to keep people from falling.
Hey Marie;
I love this movie 👍👍👍I watched it as a teenager far in the 90s mate
..my interest for native Americans started with this film
Super nice Reaktion✌️😉🤙
Greets and cheers
MIK
„There so many of them“
😂🤣yes sugar that’s their country 👍🤙
~NATIVE AMERICANS~
FIGHTING TERRORISM
SINCE 1492
Thanks I bloody love this film . Its beautiful
Yes happy father's day ( your dad has good taste) .
Awesome. Watch Geronimo with West Studi
There were thousands of different American Indian tribes in those days, some were peaceful, some were war tribes, and were violent and cruel.
The Great White Buffalo, Tootsie, Rain Man are 3 classic i never see a reaction to
I've been hoping for someone to do Tootsie for a long time. It's clever, funny, has big stars, was super popular and had 1 Oscar win and 9 nominations. What's not to like?
2:22 I think they're playing "Shinny", which is what Lacrosse and hockey evolved from.
No, lacrosse evolved from a game played by Native Americans, as the movie indicates. It has North American origins. It was originally played by large numbers of people on each side (scores or more than 100), and it was most definitely full-contact. It was a ritual game designed to promote bravery and simulate warfare, and it was done to honor the creator. So, not hockey.
"There is a war on. how is it you are heading west?"
- "Well you face to the north and real sudden like turn left"
I love how you said you were to quickly check to see if there's anything after the credits
After credit scenes are a phenomenon more or less invented in the last 10 years or so
Made me smile though
There are many different Native American tribes. Allied to the British were.. hang on a sec..... what, I forget things. I'm getting old you know. The British allies were the Iroquois. The French had the Abenaki, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Huron.
Funnily enough I've never seen this either and I'm a big movie fan. Never really wanted to see this. Until now. As always a brilliant reaction review. Now gonna watch the full movie.
you wont be disapointed
Your dad's got great taste - my absolute favourite too. Maybe it's a dad thing :)
Hurts me because my people are fading
We are still in the process of continuous growth..we will always be in existence as all the others
In highschool we had to do a short presentation on indians. Our team just submitted a bunch of clips from this movie... somehow we still got an A. (edit: although thinking about it some more, the movie had just come out on vhs so maybe our teacher hadn't seen it yet)
If this move doesn't get you in the feels, then you have no feels . . .
i have no feels
@@billdehappy1 Sucks to be you :(
@@davewhitmore1958 thats life
Great pick, Dad. The beautiful mountains of NC are a decent enough representation of upstate NY. Mr Cooper wrote a hyped up version of Daniel Boone's rescue of his daughter. I think George Washington accidentally started this very real war in North America. The massacre of Ft William Henry happened. The British payed a bounty for scalps as proof of conquest. NORTHWEST PASSAGE, DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK, MANY RIVERS TO CROSS are just three of the great films depicting this time frame.
Your Dad has great taste!
Very happy that you watched this! This is up there for me on movies that I love. I watched this the first time many years ago with my dad. For the longest time I really didn't enjoy it. Mostly because of how dated everything inside of it was, I had poor taste as a youngster. Glad that I wised up though! :D
I always say, “Beware of the old man in a land where men die young”
Fire a cannon you say? If you ever come to the US, look up reenacting sometime and I'm sure a cannon crew would be more than happy to show you how :)
Cool studio effects. 👍
Not to take anything away from all his other great films, this was the one Michael Mann was born to make! It's an action film, a romance, a metaphorical film, and a great piece of historical fiction. Great cast and music too. . .Only problem is that in his director's cut, Mann cut two of my favorite lines from the theatrical release.
Thank you sweetie.
You know, there was a time the highlands were that forested.
Someone said that you could have walked/traveled from the Appalachians to the Mississippi and been under a canopy of trees the entire way. Probably if you had kinda stayed near to the Ohio River the whole way.
Not just the highlands but everywhere in Britain.
We used to have bears and wolves too.
All gone now.
@@thomast8539 It's less about the rivers than human habitation using them for building materials and firewood.
There are still huge unbroken areas of trees up north in the arctic circle where humans seldom tread.
@@mnomadvfx There are still untouched, unexplored forests in the US.
Listen to your dad. Dads know stuff ♥
Almost anything with Daniel Day Lewis is worth watching. I recommend IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER and MY LEFT FOOT.
I LOVE this movie! The cinematography! The score! So many scenes are framed as if they were a painting! The cast was superb. Russell Means who played Chingachgook was National Director of the American Indian Movement and literally fought against the US Army when they besieged Wouned Knee. I could talk about this movie all day!
WRONG. Russell Means' group and another had a confrontation with the FBI, Federal Marshals, police agencies, and a goon squad from the local government. The incident with the US Army occurred in 1890. If you're going to talk about it, at least know what you're talking about.
@@ffjsb I admit I did not know the details, and repeated what was told to me. I am very sorry for speaking in ignorance. Looking up the second Wounded Knee incident on Wikipedia, I see that location was chosen for the symbolic value of the earlier confrontation with the Army. My impression of Russell Means as a badass is unchanged, and the I feel the incident was worth mentioning in relation to him. My apologies.
@@michaelnolan6951 Indeed Russell Means has proven his bona fides, and is worth bringing up since he his not an actor by trade. The Wounded Knee incident you're referring to occurred in 1973 on the same reservation as the massacre that occurred there. I believe even the Nebraska National Guard has been activated to provide support to US Government forces since most Native American affairs are federal ones. The GOONs being referred to are the Guardians Of the Oglala Nation. Tribal partisans with political power on that reservation at that time whose origins trace back to a point in time after settlement on their respective reservation, and were of the belief that traditional ways and governance were obstacles if their tribe was to prosper under the new way of life the reservation system allowed. It's really interesting, if not sad, how this one group of Lakota struggled to come to terms with how to go forward under the "protective yolk" of the United States.
😂 "It's not about a HAIRCUT!!" 😅 2024❤
For me the best movies were Braveheart, Dances with Wolves, and The Last of the Mohicans. They don't make movies like this anymore.
On par with this is Mel Gibson's movie Apocalypto.
If you're referring to the extent to which both motion pictures take liberties with their source material, then yes.
A lot better
In real life that double musket fire was done twice. One was by the legendary daniel boone
My favorite movie too