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Actors: Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, Charles Bronson, John McIntire, John Dehner,
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APACHE is a western directed by Robert Aldrich in 1954.
1886. Geronimo has just surrendered after his third and last attempt to leave the apache reservation. Only Burt -Massai- Lancaster is resisting the U.S. army. Finally caught, Massai must join the indian prisoners who are sent by train to a new reservation in Florida. Massai eventually escapes during the trip and returns to the apache land by foot. On his way home, he meets a cherokee indian who has learned to cope with the white man. He gives Massai some seeds and tells him that the apaches will not be free until they grow their own food.
Massai finally returns to the reservation but is betrayed by Santos, the old alcoholic chief of the last apaches, who gives him back to the army, afraid of Massai's psychological power on the young indians. Massai eventually escapes for the second time and begins a one-man war against the U.S. army. He must soon flee with Nalinle, Santos's daughter, who is bearing his child, to the mountains. Both of them begin to grow corn as Massai, little by little, abandons the idea of fighting alone the white man.
A superb western adopting the indian point of view.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Western
Yes
Kind of western:
- Nice Indians fighting wicked white man
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- American Indian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- American Indian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an entire race
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Midwest
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Desert?
Yes
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- lots of descript of crop raising
Misc setting
- moving train
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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