Posted by Kate on March 03, 2001 at 08:04:38:
What??? 'No Messages Posted Today'??? Well, I'll soon fix that!!
'Anyone looking for our trail would see it as a sign we passed that way'.
I was forced to watch 'Last of the Mohicans' again a few nights ago. (Just doing my 'prep' work for the Gathering, dontcha know!!) and again, as usual, I found a certain scene just annoyed me no end!! Perhaps someone can reassure me that I'm just thinking of it in a distorted manner and that it IS accurate.
Picture our three heroes, having come across the burnt out Cabin of John and Alexandria Cameron. Their friends are dead and our heroes are hurting... but they move on. Cora demands that the bodies be buried and Hawkeye snaps at her that 'they stay as they lay'. Later he explains that had they buried the corpses, 'anyone looking for our trail would see it as a sign we passed that way'.
Okay - tell me I'm being stupid here but... wouldn't the line Chingachgood drew around the mocassin print, indicate that someone had passed by that way?? Where ONE mocassin can leave a print, wouldn't the prints of our 'heroes', surrounding the original print, also show up?? And - wouldn't Chingachgook, the man from whom Hawkeye learned all he knows, know better???? And Hawkeye snaps at Cora that they can't do anything to let their 'followers' know where they've been/where they are??? They may as well have erected a sign saying 'we wuz here'!!
'It's illogical, captain'!! I just don't believe they would do that and I find that scene quite incongruous. Surely that wouldn't be consistent with a native's normal 'leave no trail' behaviour - or their skills.
Please, someone just tell me - it wouldn't happen like that - or I'm just nitpicking!!
Kate.