I checked their Facebook page, and they posted an image of folks "on the set" yesterday..., so seems like it's still in filming, not post production yet..., I'd bet more on April 2014.
my feelings are that the "noble savage" was not and they gave as good or better than they got. They were used as pawns by the British who paid bounties for white scalps. I've read first person accounts of atrocities that were so bad as to chill my bones. I've let my wife read a few of these but the worst I tell her not to read. I can't imagine the fortitude of the people who lived through these times.
I think we need to recognize that "nobility" among people practising absolute warfare (intentional slaughter of any living person on the opposite side) occurs when the attacker/winner shows mercy and compassion. The attitude of the 17th, 18th, and 19th century Europeans and Americans was that any peoples without civilization (large towns/the wheel/writing) were expected to simply slaughter any enemy they found, in as grusome a manner as possible, and the Indians were thought to classify the "enemy" as any person on the opposing side from infant to very elderly.
Then those in contact with the Indians discovered the Indians adpoted some non-Indian captives into their families, and treated them as equals, some attaining rank among the population. This confused the stereotype, and further when at peace there was often hospitality from Indian to the Europeans that would not have been shown between differing European groups, nor from European toward Indian, in many cases. This caused more confusion. So the idea of the "noble savage", which was a sub-group thought to be among the vast group called "Indians" was thought up to explain away the confusion.
I will wait for it to hit Redbox where I can see it for $1.50. They haven't made a movie yet that I want to see badly enough to pay $8 each to get in and then the jacked up prices for a drink and popcorn. Just for my wife and me to go to a movie today costs $25 to $30 if we get any munchies. I might pay that for good seats at the Second Coming but for a movie so some jackass actor can get $5 or $10 million for acting in it.....not a cotton' pickin' chance. If it's good, it will make it to Redbox soon enough. If it's not, then it sure wouldn't have been worth the cost to go see it in a movie theater. Just sayin'.
Funny, I never worried about what another man made in his private work, as long as he wasn't defrauding or a thieving to get it. Now a public servant is different, but a private person who is an actor, doctor, plumber, dentist, accountant, lawyer, inventor, engineer, etc and etc... nope, never saw it as my business to be concerned, nor to complain, nor to boycott. :shocked2:
As for not seeing it in the theater, well unfortunately the
dollar rules in the production of movies in Hollywood and independent films. So IF you want more films in this genre..., you will only see them if they make what the producers and investors see as "good money". So if we all wait to rent from Redbox..., we will probably continue to wait. Let's see it's been 21 years since LOTM, 20 since
The Broken Chain made-for-TV-movie, ..., I wonder why such a long gap between those productions about the Eastern Frontier and this one..., when there are so many stories yet unmade such as
The Deerslayer, Rabble in Arms, or Oliver Wiswell, or remade such as
Drums Along The Mohawk or Northwest Passage ....,
from my understanding the movie is heavily based on religion and faith.
just not my cup of tea.
It appears so far to be more of the explanation of
why and how the captives survive to include their mind set, rather than an endorsement of a specific religion hidden in a movie where folks wear funny clothes. People in survival situations often draw on a mental source to overcome the physical difficulties. Some are determined to return to loved ones, some are determine to "complete the mission", some are determined to excape and return in the future to seek revenge, and some turn to their religion. In the movie
Castaway Tom Hanks often stares at the photo of Hellen Hunt (who plays his fiancé), which gives him the mental toughness to fight to survive and to escape his island. Would you have disdain for that movie had he talked to Jesus from time to time instead of inventing a companion out of a volleyball named Wilson? Should folks have disdain for that movie becasue he didn't pray and instead talked to "Wilson"? :hmm:
OR, perhaps should we go and see the movie for ourselves, and then decide whether it was an authentic part of the character's culture for that time period, so belonged in the movie, or was simply a roundabout endorsement of religion.
LD