BONUS - The Last of the Mohicans - Film Review with Steve Guerra

Iroquois History and Legends

Andrew James Cotter

Canadian History, Iroquois, History, North American History, First Nations, Religion & Spirituality, American History, Education, Six Nations, Native America, Christianity, Native American, Indian History, Colonial History, Haudenosaunee

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Today we have a very special extended episode. The first of its kind we have Steve Guerra from Beyond the Big Screen Podcast and The History of the Papacy Podcast. We join him in discussing the 1992 film "The Last of the Mohicans". We discuss context and historical accuracy. We hope you enjoy. And please listen to Steve's other shows. Links are provided below.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-big-screen/id1238530113?mt=2

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-the-papacy-podcast/id590968693?mt=2

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, this is Andrew from Iroquois History and Legends.
0:03.2	Just to give you an idea of what's going on today, we have a very special guest, Steve Guerra, from the History of the Papacy podcast, and he also hosts the Beyond the Big Screen podcast.
0:13.1	Today, Steve, Caleb, and myself will be discussing the 1990 film The Last of the Mohicans for what our opinion on the film is and for historical accuracy.
0:23.9	We hope you enjoy.
0:45.3	The movie Last of the Mohicans was made and released in 1992, directed by Michael Mann. It is based on the book by James Fenimore Cooper.
0:50.3	Today we're going to really talk about the movie, the history, and the book. So we're going to, we have our work cut out for us today. And it had a runtime of 112 minutes. What I thought was really cool about the movie rather is that they speak English, French, Mohawk, Huron. They really hit everything. And when we were talking about it beforehand, I really understood the movie a lot
1:13.1	more after listening to your podcast, the Iroquois History and Legends. What did you guys think of
1:19.3	the movie after revisiting it after probably have watched it years ago and now watching it now?
1:24.7	Well, the first thing that stands out to me is, like you said, just how
1:28.3	professionally everything was done. Hollywood has this problem that they tend to run into with a lot of
1:34.8	the movies is they don't go and really get an expert opinion on what things were like then.
1:38.6	They just be like, here's how I picture it. They give five minutes explanation to their costume
1:42.5	designer and they make the costumes and film the movie.
1:45.4	But the detail in the costumes and like you said, the accents and the languages, really all match incredibly well to the time period.
1:55.0	All of the costumes are handmade in the style that would have been in the mid-1700s.
2:01.6	Everything from the moccasins and not just the clothing,
2:04.5	but the boats, the bows and arrows, the weapons were forged
2:09.2	by both people that are native artisans and people that study mid-18th century warfare.
2:16.3	Can you give us a quick context of what the movie,
2:19.0	it says that it starts in 1757. What was going on in 1757 and what would become New York
2:27.2	State, which was the colony of New York at the time? Oh boy, it is incredibly complicated.
2:33.0	Andrew and I actually just finished covering a seven-part
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