Oh Yeah ... That OTHER Film

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: Here's an excerpt from Michael Sragow's essay on Michael Mann on LOTM. (Russell Crowe is NOT in this one.)

: "In 1992, Mann's voluptuous wide-screen retelling of that
: fictional war-horse of the French and Indian War, "The Last of the Mohicans," proved the breadth of his vitality and talent. Once again, Mann immersed himself in data, drawing not just on James Fenimore Cooper's original 1826 novel and on Philip Dunne's script for the 1936 Randolph Scott version, but also on the diaries of the comte de Bougainville and histories and essays by Francis Parkman and Simon Schama. Most important, he enlisted Daniel Day-Lewis to play Nathaniel Poe (aka Hawkeye), the Indian-raised white scout who tries to save the English maiden he loves from the Huron massacre of the British retreating from Fort William Henry. Day-Lewis' "white Indian" hero, with his frontier-Samson locks and prehensile alertness, rebels against
: bogus English authority and bridges gaps among all those who
: live honestly (and sensually) in the woods. Using virtuoso guerrilla and survival skills for his own ethical purposes, he's the noblest expression yet of the Michael Mann hero. "The Last of the Mohicans" reinvents the legend of the honest, all-capable frontiersman in a way that honors whites and Indians alike. It's no more "accurate" yet no less moving than, say, "Young Mr. Lincoln," and it leaves you guessing at what wonderment the filmmaker will create for us next. 
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: SALON | Feb. 2, 1999 
: "Writers on Directors" (Watson-Guptill, April '99)


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