Word: chingachgooks
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...Misfire. The camera cannot confront a grown Caucasian without making him a rapacious stock villain, nor can it present the savage as anything but an improbably heroic amalgam of Friday, Chingachgook and St. Francis. A pity. The cast are an attractive lot and, as some lyrically nude bathing scenes demonstrate, Miss Agutter possesses one of the lithest, blithest young bodies on public view. Were the eye the only judge, Walkabout might be considered a treat. But no, Roeg and his scenarist Edward Bond (BlowUp) aim for the mind and miss wildly. Their preachy, anti-intellectual Natural Mannerisms are neither convincing...
...true story of Hannah Duston, a New England lady who in 1697 axed to death ten sleeping Indians who had the misfortune to capture her. Third is "The Myth of the Good Companions in the Wilderness," the friendship of White Man and Red, as portrayed by Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook in The Leatherstocking Tales. Last, there is "The Myth of the Runaway Male," the conflict between White Man and White Woman, as waged between Rip Van Winkle and his shrewish wife...
...Uncle Tom." Hannah Duston is not the heroic protector of white womanhood and the family but the great castrating mother of all men-a Mary Worth in linsey-woolsey. The tale of Rip Van Winkle is really about booze as a weapon against women. Only Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook make it through Fiedler's gauntlet without lumps. They constitute, he says, "the image of the runaway from home and civilization whom we long...
...invite the danger you appear to apprehend"). Cooper still stands out as master of action-Indian wars, deer hunts, sleigh rides, combat with wild beasts, the spring run of bass-action in which the great American wilderness is always a majestic participant. There is the bold Delaware brave Chingachgook, father of Uncas. Above all, there is Natty Bumppo. Shooting out a turkey's eye at 100 yards and escaping from the Iroquois beside Glimmerglass, showing a pioneer's contempt for newcomers who "strip the airth of its lawful covering," and at last retreating to die proudly...