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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by James N.[/i] [br]Their [i]names[/i], that is... Now that I presumably have your undivided attention, please allow me to explain: While sifting through my papers from 20 years ago looking for information to add to my accounts, I found several documents from the time in the same binder where I keep my copy of the script. We all know Daniel Day-Lewis, Johdi May, Eric Schweig, etc., etc. were in it from the Cast and Credits at the end of the finished film; but what about ALL the other people we saw onscreen? I've already posted a list of the so-called "Reenactor Core", but what of the others? Well, here many of them are, listed by categories in a 13 page [i]LAST OF THE MOHICANS Casting List.[/i] Dated [i]May 30, 1991[/i] this was evidently a "call sheet", including phone numbers, for most of the people listed so they could be contacted by the production's casting office. As you can see, it's not complete, a good number indicated as [i]"* to be confirmed"[/i]. At this distance, it's impossible to now know exactly how many of those listed actually worked on the finished film, or for how long; but it's safe to bet that most of them DID. The list is divided into several categories and sub-groups which I have retyped and slightly condensed, omitting the likely by-now useless phone numbers. This posting condenses 5 of the widely-spaced pages, pp. 1 - 4 and 11 containing the French and Indians. I'm sure many more persons were involved than this indicates, but these were to be the MAIN "background" personnel for the indicated groups. For example the group labeled [i][u]MAGUA HURON CORE[/u][/i] was the relatively small "bodyguard" always seen around him, especially during the "Ambush". I think one of the most interesting aspects of the film, plainly evident here, was the widespread recruitment of the background extras from literally all over the U.S.; if all these were actually of Native Amerindian heritage ( or of the specific tribes indicated )or not, I can't say, but they at least were SUPPOSED to be! Of these various groups, at least Magua's men recieved a period of training equivalent to that of the "Military Core Group"; we finally got our first look at them in their basic training outfits ( not seen in the film ) at the Firefighter's Training Camp sometime in early June: [b]Image Insert:[/b][br][img]http://www.mohicanpress.com/messageboard/../uploads/James N/201161143345_LOTM Hurons.jpg[/img][br][size=1] 64.6KB[/size=1] [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.