Word: heroicizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within the last few years, "decelebration" efforts have reached the mainstream in Cambridge. Nationally, this year's quincentennial has been marked by prominent protests by Blacks and Native Americans who contest the traditional image of Columbus as a heroic discoverer...
Cooper's Natty was in his forties and very low-key; he liked to hang out with Indians and shoot a deer now and then. Not very marketable. The new-style Natty Bumppo (Daniel Day-Lewis) has had so many heroic stereotypes packed into him that he seems nearly schizophrenic. New Natty is young and hot-blooded; he makes speeches about independence from England (at a time when dupes like George Washington were still supporting the Crown), schmoozes with settlers and isn't averse to clasping a woman in his arms and breathing heavy. Day-Lewis alternates between agitation...
...Heroic Goal...
...BOTTOM LINE: The saga of James Fenimore Cooper's heroic Hawkeye is retold on a grand scale...
...Daniel Day Lewis plays the character as if he were entirely unaware of the heroic line that derives from Hawkeye. This innocence leaves open the interesting possibility that, not knowing any better, he might implode under pressure instead of exploding into more predictable action. Conversely, Madeleine Stowe, playing the commandant's elder daughter, for whom earlier versions of Hawkeye have had only a distant admiration, invests her character with a sureness about her needs and a moral courage that is very much up to date. Mann rewards them with actual sexual contact, quietly yet fiercely staged, that is a wonderful...