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...after William Randolph Hearst, whose spiralling climb to wealth and power is paralleled by his decline into emotional paralysis. This takes shape cinematically in ever deeper focus shots that oppress Welles ever smaller, ever less impotent and more isolated within the frame. Don't waste your time wondering about Rosebud (it is the name of his sled. Lost innocence, get it. Right, the only woman he ever loved was his mother). Orson Welles...
...accompanies Means and Leonard Crow Dog, a spiritual leader from the nearby Rosebud reservation, to Washington for the meetings. The selection of Bad Cob for the trip seems to indicate a desire on the part of AIM leaders to include symbolic representatives of the oldest living Oglalas...
Movies used to portray Indians as grunting marauders. Now everything about them, from their history to their handicraft, has become topical, even chic. In recent films they have been treated-or mistreated-as the newest social problem (Journey Through Rosebud) or as symbolic Vietnamese (Soldier Blue). When the Legends Die is one of the rare movies that seem genuinely to express, even in a small way, the strangled rage and uncertainty of the modern Indian...
...Rosebud is a condescending attempt to portray the social problems of the contemporary Indian. Danny (Kristoffer Tabori), a draft dodger from San Francisco in flight from the Feds, winds up in Rosebud, S. Dak., in the middle of the Sioux reservation. He decides to stick around and groove on the Indians. The Indians don't much like...
...movie chosen to be about this clash of cultures, then Rosebud might have been hard-edged and fairly exciting. Instead it watches Danny try to make friends with an Indian named Frank (Robert Forster), who is consumed by angst and alcohol. Danny also pays a lot of attention to Frank's ex-wife (Victoria Racimo), a situation that eventually gives Frank an excuse to rack himself up in the final scenes...