Word: protagonists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thunderheart, with no obligation to sift through the intricate facts of a complicated case, has more time than the documentary to portray the shameful living conditions at Pine Ridge and to suggest the power of the mystical traditions AIM sought to revive. Its protagonist, an FBI agent named Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), is assigned to the reservation mainly for public relations reasons; he's one-quarter Sioux. And not proud of it. But the squalor of Pine Ridge touches him, as do the Native Americans, led by a tough, funny tribal policeman (Graham Greene) and a sly, funny shaman (Chief...
Inside, there is order. Here Santana (Olmos), in California's Folsom State Prison for murder, finds fulfillment as leader of the Mexican Mafia gang. He runs an operation to collect "rent," which can be cigarettes, knives or drugs. The idea, as the protagonist frequently reminds us, is simple: once you control the inside, you control the outside...
...tone of his narration abruptly shifts in the second half of the movie, after Santana is paroled. The protagonist resumes his role as drug kingpin, but the poetic voice-overs are gone. Santana struggles with everything. He clashes with rival gangs and with formerly loyal lieutenants like J.D., a "half-breed" played in old-time gangster style by William Forsythe...
During one juvenile hall scene, a young Santana, the film's protagonist, is raped during the middle of the night by another inmate. As Santana takes a knife away from his assailant, Olmos shows us a boy in a nearby bed who repeatedly urges, "kill...
...center of the plot, and the figurative protagonist, is the city of Bahia, capital of Brazil from...