Discrimination and racism in Old western movies
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joekiddlouischama — 2 years ago(July 03, 2023 05:04 AM)
newer Hollywood films do just the opposite: they tend to vilify whites and portray Natives as the wise and noble victims of European colonization. I think the truth is more ambiguous and lies somewhere in the middle. There were good and bad people on both sides and Hollywood's take on history has always been simplistic and flawed.
Did you see
Hostiles
(Scott Cooper, 2017), a "very good" Western and one of the best films of that year? I saw it three times in the theater, and I would say that the movie captures quite a bit of ambiguity and a sense of mutual danger and violence—without softening the undeniable betrayals of the US military and government. -
MissMargoChanning — 6 years ago(October 27, 2019 02:16 PM)
There have always been ignorant idiots since time began. There are still ignorant idiots.
Prove me wrong
Why? You are doing such a great job of proving me right!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
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Reelcut — 4 years ago(June 30, 2021 11:10 AM)
There are a lot of things in old movies that could be considered racist nowadays. There is stuff from this century that would be considered racist in 2021. Things in movies today will probably be considered offensive in 20 years from now. It is just how it works.
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joekiddlouischama — 2 years ago(July 03, 2023 04:55 AM)
I can't be sure but maybe Dances with Wolves started to change that perception some.
Little Big Man
(Arthur Penn, 1970) arrived twenty years earlier, and there were others along the way, such as
The Outlaw Josey Wales
(Clint Eastwood, 1976). Such seventies Westerns reflected the changes in social and racial perspectives that emerged during the Vietnam War era of the 1960s and early 1970s. -
phantomparticle — 4 years ago(July 01, 2021 09:16 AM)
The North American natives, indians if you like, are always depicted as bad, brutes and someone who has to be killed no matter what
Prove me wrong
Both
Broken Arrow
(1954) and
Cheyenne Autumn
(1960) depict the Indians sympathetically and whites as oppressors, and there are dozens more movies of the fifties with similar themes.
Those two examples, alone, prove you wrong.
And This, Too, Shall Pass Away -
joekiddlouischama — 2 years ago(July 03, 2023 05:06 AM)
Is it true the indians used to roast white people, women & children included, over fires? I vaguely remember reading something like that.
That would have represented a very small minority of cases, if any.
