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RE: "Little Big Man" I consider one of the finest films...

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In Reply to: RE: "Little Big Man" I consider one of the dumbest films of all time. If there's an actor with a more posted by eppis1 on December 02, 2009 at 19:36:04

..as an offbeat and compassionate take on the "American Western".

It takes a tribe of "Human Being" to turn Hollywood bias on its head - a pre-classic to a modern sensibility on the subject on revisionist Western history.

Arthur Penn made this 1970 doosie, that shows compassion for indigenous peoples - could be an allegory for missguided 20th century policies, domestic (Vietnam) and foreign (Israeli-Palestinian) conflicts.

It stepped on the establishment's toes.

I love it.

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Yes, and Canadian actor Chief Dan George was ... - musetap 12:23:17 12/04/09 (1)
(as in all his film roles) a brilliant Human Being.

Old Lodge Skin:"There is an endless supply of white men. There has always been a limited number of human beings."

� Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination. � -Michael McClure
- How very true! ~t - mpathus 17:47:56 12/05/09 (0)
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