repost from elsewhere, a native american "last post" thread, on the film "dead man" staring johny depp
that a powerful intellect, indebted to literature and poetry, feeling that fate had offered him this role of sending off to the next world a white man called William Blake, an action of no logic, nor self interest, nor personal gain, just something seeming right to himself here..." um... William Blake and Native American Indians? Wow my history skills suck I guess... or something was totally missed elsewhere...
"...yes, in the film, that native american in brought up by whites, and although he is over shadowed by johny depp as the dying white man here, the story is really about someone being moved by something alien to oneself and ones culture now, it is mirrored in its way by "dance with the wolves" where it is the white man in the dilemma of crossing cultures again, but perhaps the parallel ends here then..." mentioned the goblin who also noticed how often the native american, being thought of as more spiritual than the white man, is portrayed as an angel of death, as in such films like "one flew over the cuckoo's nest", and in "deadman" here
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