Word: geronimo
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Above all, this genre is about manliness and different ways of achieving its basic requisites -- honor, stoicism and freedom of movement. Geronimo: An American Legend takes a tragic view of those values. Everyone who tries to live by them ends up dead, imprisoned or disgraced. In that sense, it is very much a '90s movie, a conscious metaphorical backlash against newer, softer definitions of masculinity. Here good soldiers and Apaches are equally the victims of compromising, "civilizing" forces...
Although he has a photograph of Geronimo, "the last of the renegade Apaches," on his bedroom wall and likes to think of himself as a renegade too, Paddy piously believes the conventional wisdom shared by his friends: "When you were doing a funny face or pretending you had a stammer and the wind changed or someone thumped your back you stayed that way forever." And juvenile humor naturally appeals to him: "Did you hear about the leper cowboy? He threw his leg over his horse...
...could do both. Geronimo, the TNT movie that launches the series next week, recounts the life of the notorious Apache warrior with more empathy for Native American culture than ever before, but not without its share of gun battles and scalping parties. (Scalping by the Mexicans, that is; the practice, we are told, was only later appropriated by the Indians in retaliation.) The film has an elegiac tone, opening at a Fourth of July celebration in 1905 attended by an old, sad-eyed Geronimo, by then something of a historical sideshow attraction. In flashbacks we see the education...
...again is on a legendary rebel -- Joseph Brant (Eric Schweig), an Iroquois warrior educated in English-speaking schools, persuaded his tribe to support the British during the revolution and later became a marauding terror to colonial settlers. The acting is more wooden and the drama more sketchy than in Geronimo. Yet the history lesson -- that principles of the Iroquois confederacy were an important influence on the American Constitution -- is well told...
Television: Geronimo kicks off a TNT series on Indians...