Posted on 02/03/2018 7:06:44 AM PST by Kaslin
1896 is still way too late to base a movie with her as a survivor of an indian attack and he's a soldier who's seen too much.
And you are probably right about the movie.
In Mexico, according to Earl Stanley Gardner, the last Indian attack was by Apaches in 1939. Yes, 1939.
GO SEE IT! OUTSTANDING
The first half was filmed on my mother’s family’s ancestral homestead in New Mexico - The Ghost Ranch In Abiquiu, NM ( it was so beautiful I stayed to the end credits to find out where it was filmed )
Yes, Yellow Hawk is Cheyenne
Thanks for posting this info. I had planned to see the movie next week.
>>I’ve heard that this is a well made movie, but I’m not going to see it. I am tired of Hollywood’s constant pushing of “the moral ambiguities”.<<
Exactly. Plenty other alternatives for a couple hours of entertainment.
>>Having said that, one of the actors in 12 Strong did have a Trump quote that’s ‘ out there’<<
I had just decided to skip Hostiles and see 12 Strong instead. So what was the jist of the quote you’re referring to?
If you want to know, please Google .....Michael Shannon, Trump .....and you’ll see how very insulting he is.
I apologize for not sending the link.....I’m a bit of a dinosaur with that kind of thing.
I believe Shannon has one of the major parts in the movie, 12 Strong
1892
Wow!...the Ghost Ranch belongs to your family!
Used to. Belongs to Pentacostal Ministries now, I think
My GGG Uncles founded it after the Civil War and were eventually forced off for being horse thieves and " desperadoes" - One of the family was hanged in Colorado for having something to do killing a state legislator.
Archuleta Mesa is another well known family homestead.
The Comanche were indeed brutal and cruel, and then we whipped them and forced them to behave.
Don’t romanticize violent Neolithic savages!
I was reared along the Red River in Texas just South of Comanche County, Oklahoma and went to High school with several grandchildren of Quanah Parker and even lived next door to a grandchild of the Chief. Our football coach was full Comanche. I heard stories of the Comanche exploits from the sons and grandchildren.
I watched “Hostiles” last night and really enjoyed it. The theme was most interesting — the intersection of a cavalry career officer, settlers, and Indians. I thought setting it immediately after the frontier closed (1890) was brilliant.
It blended so many things together - extreme violence, grief, sorrow, military orders, enemies overcoming lifelong hatred of each other, male and female perspectives of loss and grief, comradeship, strong femininity and masculinity. The tag line was “We are all hostiles” and that does sum it up.
I just had to resurrect this old thread to mention how much I liked it.
I just watched “Hostiles” last night — really GREAT movie. The normal touch of late 20th and early 21st century sensibilities, but not overweening as is frequently the case these days. That was the most realistic and extreme brutality and violence I’ve seen in a movie. The Comanche raid on the settlers was horrendous — one moment you are a happy family and the next Dad and the kids are all gone to a violent death.
There were so many concurrent themes woven throughout the movie I was spellbound watching it.
Hostiles was really good. Christian Bale is such
a good actor in everything he does.
I agree with you, Godless is excellent.
I have watched it 3 times now. I love it.
The cast, the writing!!!
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