What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Native America

Why Apocalypto is wrong?

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I had almost completely forgotten there were even any natives shown in A Million Ways To Die In The West

Apocalypto is not a native american movie, is a movie of the tribes in mexico. The Aztecs.

7:00 why replace? The white perspective is just as valid and just as important as the Indian. I agree that it is a gain if the Indian side is also told and portrait from their perspective, however that doesn't mean that I'd want the other to be silenced. Just as I can appreciate Hollywood WW1/2 productions as a German. Is 90% still filled with war propaganda, dehumanising German soldiers and the same old tropes and stereotypes over and over? Of course, but it still gives you their perspective and how they pictured themselves in that war and I have no doubt that facing an SS squad was amongst the most terrifying things to ever exist. That, especially in the east, German soldiers must have come across as monsters to the people. I can watch that and appreciate that it's their perspective while still also valuing stories from the German perspective about the sheer desperation, the unbelievable terror, the hopelessness, the horrors of the civilian population getting mutilated while the entire world regards them as monsters deserving of it. Both perspectives have their place and legitimacy and both are needed to get an idea of the whole picture.

Basically, absolutely no movies should be made without completely accurate and acceptable representation of NA’s? But movies like Rez Dogs can portray NA’s and non-NA’s in any way because the makers are NA?
The movie Saving Private Ryan was an adaptation of an actual non NA person, but it should have been rewritten to make him a NA? Wouldn’t that have made him a pretendian? Of course movies don’t reflect people as they actually are, white people don’t use catfish heads for perverted rituals (as in Rez Dogs) so should they pitch a fit because it’s not accurate? Why make movies at all then and make nothing but documentaries? Seriously, lighten up. Btw, many NA’s enjoy Dances with Wolves because they know it’s fictional. My language group made a frybread power shirt in Sac and Fox, is that stereotyping or fun? We say fun. Btw… Victor’s dad ran away because of the guilt he felt when he burned down the house while drunk, killing Thomas’ parents, not because he was a bad influence. Watch the movie.

OMG, I love Dances With Wolves, but also had a feeling they were more depicting Comanche than Lakota. Still, I am more into it than those horrible John Wayne films I watched with my father. My first comment on them as a six-year-old: why on earth do they bring in white actors with wigs and make-up looking ridiculous, while there are real Native Americans out there … Or did they really kill them all?
Today, I am happy they did not. But when I was six, I honestly for a moment believed that white actors played Native Americans because the real ones were extinct.
It there is a Great Spirit, five days later there was a photograph of a Pow Wow at our local photographer's shop window. My father took me to it to prove that there were still Native Americans living today.
Just to tell how it was to be a European kid in the 80's.

Getting vaccinated before leaving the reservation to enter into the United States? I can understand the resentment portrayed, but how on earth is that supposed to make things better among peoples? I would never have thought of such a cruel thing to say or think if I were to enter a reservation. Is your intent to make things respectful or tho allow Natives to vent on the big screen? I don’t get it.

I really wanted to like Chakotay in Star Trek Voyager and it was a real bummer that the person responsible for making him realistic ended up being a fraud.

Can I just say as the white girl in the room how much I despise Pocahontas (the stupid Disney movies, not the real person)?

The premise of The Killer of the Flower Moon sounded so amazing but it baffles me that they sidelined ALL OF the sisters and the family of Lily Gladstone’s character, the actual victims of the killings, to give DeNiro and DiCaprio more screentime to idle and do nothing. These sisters are at the CENTRE of the story, essential to the plot, yet have JUST ONE scene of them all together talking. For the rest of the film Lily’s character talks to them individually a few times, but honestly not even that much, and we’re hardly given any information about who the sisters are, their personalities/interests/lives. They’re supposed to be the people given a spotlight yet we’re given so little time with them

Try being autistic. Same thing of misinformation and neurotypicals playing us. So much that now that actual autistic people are accused of not being autistic. (Not the horrible stereotype neurotypicals think of). Representation is important. I was so disappointed with Killers of the Flower Moon. I just thought 3 hours would get more screen time for the sisters and other Native American people (who were real people) so we get to know them. But instead, they are briefly shown as wives and just in relation to the murderous men who kill them.

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Um excuse me Johnny Depps part native American and it was recently proven so he's still not the lousiest choice for tonto..btw please talk about the native American actors and actresses from back in the day told to hide their native American heritage..like actress Linda Darnell she was a actress in the 1940s and Cherokee and she was told to hide it..i know this from my grandpa who was her second cousin..so don't be too hard on lack of representation or whatever if the dumbass system is telling actors to hide it or you have so many painted up italians playing native that it ruins it for actual actors who have some indigenous wanting to say hey I embrace my culture and you have some cheesed off skeptics saying no your not native when Hollywood was telling people to pass as anglo for ages and whats stupid is why paint up Italians and other cultures when they had really good actors who are native American under their noses but had them playing other things.. that's what happened to my cousin among other crap ..so are you so high and mighty and I mean no rudeness but are you saying that only straight up natives deserve acting roles for natives when a half native actors still better than nothing or a painted up Italian are you so upity that you wouldn't let a half native actor try a native American role when its a great chance at some work and to learn about the culture..and honestly who's a 100% anything anymore in this country and i meant no disrespect mr. Leclare its just there's alot of actors back in the day told to hide their culture and pass for something else..and that attitude is still around to a degree but now its sometimes people embracing their native ties ( with proof often) and getting shade for it me personally I know i couldn't be an actress if I went for a native American role id probably catch crap for only being half Cherokee and ive just noticed kinda a lousy attitude twards people who are half just because we're half anglo or other doesn't mean were still not family…if a person is only half native American does that make them less of a person or inferrior to full blooded indigenous people..and no im not being a smartass or mean its a genuine question because ive seen folks get flack and had it happen to me too.please excuse my lack of punctuation my eyesight isn't the best and take care and God bless

ironically he looks like an Indian

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