Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poised to attack the Cheyenne village where Candice had been holing up for the past two years. Both Bergen and Strauss are incapable of halting the madness. The film turns into a bloodbath as a crazy, half-drunken major directs the inevitable massacre. Not only do his men slaughter the village chief when he approaches them with an American flag and treaty papers, but they also rape every woman and dismember every child in sight. And the audience is spared not a clot of all the blood. There is even one low-angle shot in which we see a woman...
...destroy" from the division's official vocabulary and suggesting the use of other phrases that would "give the reader no basis for assuming a lack of compassion on the part of members of this command." Indeed, compassion was not completely absent at My Lai. Immediately after the slaughter, G.I.s found two survivors, little girls. They fed the children and delivered them safely to neighboring Vietnamese...
Certainly, that's a legitimate goal. But there's a difference between a victory and a slaughter, between a game and a war; and it's an important one. The ideal should be wide participation, not enormous margins of victories and an impressive set of statistics. Blackman always made a point this Fall of stating that everyone got a chance to play in most games, but being on the field for two minutes at the end of the fourth quarter barely qualifies as playing...
...turned back to the captain. Though the agents apparently found little that was damning in his background, they formed the theory that MacDonald and his wife Colette had had a violent argument over his younger daughter's bed wetting and that the angry words ended in the slaughter. Then MacDonald ripped up the house and, being a doctor, added a few careful stab wounds to those already inflicted by his wife as she fought back. The CID's chief reasons for accusing MacDonald seemed to be its view that 1) there was no firm physical evidence...
Given such grossness, why should Little Big Man be counted as a rambunctious triumph? Because in its 360° scope of slaughter and laughter, the film has contrived to lampoon, revere or revile the length and breadth of the entire frontier. On the trek, it demonstrates inconsistencies and errata. For months audiences will be talking about them. It also accomplishes that rarest achievement, the breathing of life into an ossified art form. The '70s has its first great epic. Blood brother to the 1903 one-reeler, The Great Train Robbery, Little Big Man is the new western to begin...