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Actors: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about A Man Called Horse |
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British infantryman John Morgan is captured by Sioux (Yellowhand Tribe) in 19th Century Midwestern US . Morgan realizes he's up against life or death situation. Yellowhands adopt Morgan and both primary and secondary characters learn life and survival skills from one another.
--Jeanne Fritsch, Resident Scholar
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English aristocrat John Morgan (Harris) is traveling through the American West in 1825 when he is captured by Sioux Indians. He lives with them and begins to adopt their ways, eventually becoming accepted as a member of the tribe and ascending to leadership of the tribe by the 1840s. Morgan comes to prefer the ways of the Indian to those of the white man. This 1970 movie was one of the first to hold up American Indians as exemplary while disdaining the depredations of Caucasian settlers, but there's an element of the white man saving the incoherent savages, and a vivid and somewhat offensive misuse of the Sioux Sun dance ceremony. Despite the clumsy story, "A Man Called Horse" features memorable acting by Harris, some thrilling footage, and spawned two much weaker sequels -- both with Harris.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of A Man Called Horse |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Western
Yes
Kind of western:
- Nice Indians fighting wicked white man
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
- not employed but independently wealthy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- can read emotions
- fire/lightning/weather cntrl
- mind control
- can see into the future
- can cast many different spells
- healing
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Hair color?
- blonde
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- American Indian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- fight for survival
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Midwest
Prairie?
Yes
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
- dozens
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing nude male butt
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- mission to destroy something
- mission to protect something
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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