Massai

In the ancient times of American cinema, white actors painted with shoe polish appeared in roles of black characters. Fortunately, during the filming of Aldrich's film, this was no longer the case, and yet for the American studio, it was unimaginable to entrust the roles of Native Americans to actual Native Americans. Therefore, the beautifully blue-eyed Lancaster took on the lead role, along with his partner, a former beauty queen and the ideal prototype of a white beauty for fashion magazines. I can't help it, but no matter how much Apache tries to be progressive within its time and ideological framework, and how it tries to present the protagonist and his ethnicity in a better light, the film perfectly falls into the era of the 50s, and seeks to solve the conflict of clashing indigenous culture with the rapidly spreading Euro-American civilization through enlightening the native population and their adaptation to the skills and abilities of white men. The film comes across as naive, and schematic, and some dialogues are truly bad. Maybe it's just my problem because I associate Lancaster with a completely different type of character, but I simply didn't believe in him as an Indian. Overall impression: 40%. (28.02.2018)

A movie that I expected to be a fairly ordinary western, but in the end, I got an interesting version of how to fight for life and under what conditions. Well, it's not overall so strong, but the desire to live that is presented here, the desire that goes against everything, is an example of how much we should love freedom and never submit to something else. But there is still that question mark. What can an individual ultimately accomplish against a group? (27.11.2013)