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Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Last of the Mohicans |
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In this atmospheric period piece about the French and Indian War the French and English clash along with the Huron and Mohican Indians who have chosen sides. Caught in this historical conflict are the two daughters of the English Colonel Monroe who are on their way to Fort Henry. Unknown to them and their father, his men are now trapped, surrounded by the French and their Indian allies on all sides.
--Alice Gordon, Resident Scholar
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This movie is an epic wilderness thriller, in which many battles are fought, and a love is found. It takes place on the frontier of colonial america during the French and Indian War, where three men, the last of a vanishing people are caught up in war and love.
--Jared Foster, Resident Scholar
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This movie is about the romance between a European woman and a frontiersman trapper/hunter during the colonial wars in the New York wilderness. He saves her from the Indians and French, and she falls in love with him and the freedom and beauty of the American frontier.
--Jennifer, Resident Scholar
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James Fenimore Cooper's story of Nathaniel, his adoptive father Chingachook, his brother Uncas, and his love Cora, who are all caught up in the confusion of the French and Indian War.
--Emily M., Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Last of the Mohicans |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 18th century
Wilderness adventure
Yes
Plotlets:
- getting to know a nice woman
- hunted by injuns
Western
Yes
Kind of western:
- Good white men fighting wicked Indians
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- trader
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Specific kind of enemies?
- tyrants
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- muscular (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- American Indian
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Mountains:
- climbing on trails
- falling off
Forest?
Yes
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
How many deaths in film?
- hundreds
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- flamed
- impaled
- perforation--swords/knives
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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