Favorite Movies

[MurphOnMillerAve]

For a fourth (or was it my fifth?) time since the movie came out, I watched this movie again, and with continued joy:
The Last of The Mohicans.I

To me, it is a movie of great dignity, due largely to its empathy and truth.

That final scene on the top of a tall hill (it seemed to me to be very like the area around the Delaware Water Gap) when the last Mohican, Chingachgook, said farewell and gave voice and moment to his being, indeed, the last of his people, it made me think of my own mortality and of a person's life meaning something to others.

Does anybody else think highly of this movie?

[rogruth]

Murph,
I agree.
I think the movie was made in North Carolina.

[NJPiney]

I've also always loved The Last of the Mohicans. I read the book, as well as Cooper's The Deerslayer, several times since I got both as a youth, and enjoyed all the movie versions, from the earliest black and white version to the latest. Movies such as these have had an influence on me in other ways. The rifle I use for squirrel hunting is a replica of a flintlock from the era of these movies/books. My deer rifle is a Hawken replica, which I was inspired to buy after first watching Jeremiah Johnson many years ago. Not only do I find these slow-loading weapons more sporting to hunt with, but I feel more connected to the past as I carry them in the same forests where early settlers and indians once tread.

[rogruth]

The claim has been made that the Deerslayer stories were based on Daniel Boone.
Cooper probably knew about Boone as Boone was @ 50 years older than Cooper and
was quite well known during his lifetime.

I always got a kick out of the Walt Disney series on DB. The song says "Daniel Boone was a man,
yes, a big man". Boone was about 5'6" tall in stature but must have been big in reputation.

[up148]

Besides being an outstanding movie Last of the Mohicans has an exceptional soundtrack. I think soundtracks have a great deal to do with a movies success and evoking the mood the director was trying to capture. Makes the difference between a "great" or an "exceptional" movie. Powerful movies need the correct music.

BH

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That's such a good point to add, BH, and it seems especially true of "Last of the Mohicans." As an example, the music infusing that last scene, as well as the ones immediately leading up to it give profound testimony in support of your point.

There are so many movies that well exemplify your point.
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Blood of Heros

Flesh and Blood

[Texas Pete]

The Grapes Of Wrath (Henry Fonda, John Carradine)

City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)

The Kid (Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan)

Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)

Duck Soup (The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont)

The Old Fashioned Way (WC Fields)

August Osage County (Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis)

Airplane (Rober Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, too many brilliant cameos to mention)

Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Harrison Ford, Karen Allen)

Those are some of The Greatest, too many honorable mentions to list.

Pete

[rogruth]

I may already have this but---- Big Country.

[E7]

For a fourth (or was it my fifth?) time since the movie came out, I watched this movie again, and with continued joy:
The Last of The Mohicans.I

Wasn't Travis Bickle the last of the Mohicans?

[rogruth]

For a fourth (or was it my fifth?) time since the movie came out, I watched this movie again, and with continued joy:
The Last of The Mohicans.I

Wasn't Travis Bickle the last of the Mohicans?

I thought it was Chingatchgook [sp.?].

[MurphOnMillerAve]

For a fourth (or was it my fifth?) time since the movie came out, I watched this movie again, and with continued joy:
The Last of The Mohicans.I

Wasn't Travis Bickle the last of the Mohicans?

I thought it was Chingatchgook [sp.?].

Chingachgook is right, Roger.

[E7]

A bit of twisted joke on my part guys. Travis Bickle was the Robert DeNiro part in the film "Taxi Driver" in which he had his hair cut in a Mohawk....so he chronologically could have been the LAST of the Mohicans.

Rich

[rogruth]

A bit of twisted joke on my part guys. Travis Bickle was the Robert DeNiro part in the film "Taxi Driver" in which he had his hair cut in a Mohawk....so he chronologically could have been the LAST of the Mohicans.

Rich

Oakhay.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

A bit of twisted joke on my part guys. Travis Bickle was the Robert DeNiro part in the film "Taxi Driver" in which he had his hair cut in a Mohawk....so he chronologically could have been the LAST of the Mohicans.

Rich

Now, that's some wild cultural referencing right there, folks. Perhaps a bit oblique and obscure, but that's the kind of playfulness that'll keep me on my toes. For sure.