The Movie Issues
Gender
In this film there is severe depiction
of both women being merely damsels in distress that require rescuing at
every twist and turn. Where as the men are depicted as strong
rarely compassionate brutes. I think that this has a lot to do
with the time. When the original story was written men wanted to
feel that they were the dominate of the species. The church
following the Crussades made women out to be the devil and that has
only in recent decades become a thing of the past.
Race
In this film there is also a depiction
of differerent aboriginal races as well as the French and British
Europeans. In Last of the Mohicans there is a sharp contrast in
the depiction of the Huron, who side with the French, and the Mohican
(Uncas and Chingackhook). The French are seen as brutalistic
controllers who are oppressing the British. This is a gross
misrepresentation because in fact the British were the ones who
continuously encrouched on the New France territory. This film
makes the Hurons look as though they were a powerful tribe that when
flexing their muscles could do whatever they want. The true
historical facts about the Hurons is that they were absorbed by the
Five Tribe of the Iroquios Nations because they were weak and unable to
defend themselves.
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