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...more than just the embodiment of testosterone-identified values. After a little initial prickliness between them ("Stay away from my horse, or he'll kill you"), Pecos decides to help Daniel save his farm and his family. On their way, they round up some other legendary figures: Paul Bunyan (Oliver Platt) and John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown...
...Bunyan, once the greatest logger of them all, and his emotionally delicate cobalt-blue ox, Babe, have fled from the industrialization of logging in the Northwest to the California redwoods. Swathed in fringed and beaded leather, his beard tied with a thong and the ensemble topped with a fur hat, he resembles a strange kind of bear. His hilarious bouts of self-pity and childishness make Bunyan the perfect counterpart to his more serious companions...
...context of each scene. They are the guardians of the land, and of a dying way of life. In a bar, a simple toast with mugs of beer becomes a mystic ritual, the personifications of the West (Pecos Bill), the South (John Henry) and the North (Paul Bunyan) saluting each other solemnly. They are also role models and surrogate fathers to Daniel. The heroes teach him to be self-sufficient, but in the end they are also there to help...
Although the "savage in a strange land" scenario is a little old, the corresponding environmental messages is not too overstated. "Maybe I'm just old fashioned," says Paul Bunyan bitterly, "but in my day we didn't kill the land; we just borrowed from it." More than the script, director Jeremiah Chechik relies on the gorgeous scenery of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and California. These make a powerful silent plea for environmental conservation...
...birth, and -- though her father gave her a shiny new ax to play with in her cradle -- "was a full two years old before she built her first log cabin." Her epic mud wrestle with the giant bear Thundering Tarnation has the rowdy, mile-wide quality of the Paul Bunyan tales: the combatants fall asleep after days of pummeling each other, and "Tarnation snored louder than a rockslide, while Angel snored like a locomotive in a thunderstorm. Their snoring rumbled through the earth, tumbling boulders and shaking trees loose. By morning, they had snored down nearly the whole forest...