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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 779312" data-attributes="member: 2189">You are about the 5th person to suggest Empire of the Summer Moon so maybe I just need to breakdown and get that book. Also I&#039;ll check out Secret of Kells as my heritage is Highand Scot so the celtic connection is very strong.My favorite work of Studi&#039;s was Geronimo, American Legend and although the movie was loosely based, he humanized a persona who had so often been dehumanized or glamourized for the wrong reasons. Geronimo was no saint but he was no demon either, just a man. When Studi through the Geronimo character spoke of his wife and daughters being killed by the Mexican army, which is true of the real Geronimo, you began to understand and see Goyakla (Geronimo&#039;s real name) as a human and empathize. You also ask yourself, what would I have thought and done if that happened to me?As for Studi in &quot;The Only Good Indian&quot; his character was doing everything he could to be the whitest white man he could be and you see the moral conflict he goes through as the movie progresses. Watching Sam (Studi) and Sheriff McCoy (Campbell) come face to face with their demons that began in the violence of Sand Creek was to me the more interesting backstory of the movie.On a completely different movie note, (2 movies actually) have you ever seen the movie Mindwalk? It&#039;s a purely thinking film with no frills or thrills but it&#039;s always been a film I enjoyed from the standpoint of provoking thought and thinking in many different directions. If you haven&#039;t seen it, it&#039;s free on google video and I&#039;d strongly encourage you to take about 2 hours and check it out. The second movie is &quot;Heavy Metal in Baghdad&quot; which is just over an hour long and free on the internet. Follows a heavy metal band in Iraq that started under the Saddam era and what they went through as of 2006&#039;/2007&#039; period. It&#039;s another example of how muslims dress too!<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 779312, member: 2189"] You are about the 5th person to suggest Empire of the Summer Moon so maybe I just need to breakdown and get that book. Also I'll check out Secret of Kells as my heritage is Highand Scot so the celtic connection is very strong. My favorite work of Studi's was Geronimo, American Legend and although the movie was loosely based, he humanized a persona who had so often been dehumanized or glamourized for the wrong reasons. Geronimo was no saint but he was no demon either, just a man. When Studi through the Geronimo character spoke of his wife and daughters being killed by the Mexican army, which is true of the real Geronimo, you began to understand and see Goyakla (Geronimo's real name) as a human and empathize. You also ask yourself, what would I have thought and done if that happened to me? As for Studi in "The Only Good Indian" his character was doing everything he could to be the whitest white man he could be and you see the moral conflict he goes through as the movie progresses. Watching Sam (Studi) and Sheriff McCoy (Campbell) come face to face with their demons that began in the violence of Sand Creek was to me the more interesting backstory of the movie. On a completely different movie note, (2 movies actually) have you ever seen the movie Mindwalk? It's a purely thinking film with no frills or thrills but it's always been a film I enjoyed from the standpoint of provoking thought and thinking in many different directions. If you haven't seen it, it's free on google video and I'd strongly encourage you to take about 2 hours and check it out. The second movie is "Heavy Metal in Baghdad" which is just over an hour long and free on the internet. Follows a heavy metal band in Iraq that started under the Saddam era and what they went through as of 2006'/2007' period. It's another example of how muslims dress too! :wink2: [/QUOTE]

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