Absinthe & Cookies (a bit bitter, a bit sweet)

Into The West

I'm very much wanting to see this because anything to do with Westward expansion is something I'm interested in. On the other hand, it's a Steven Speilberg production, so it'll probably be a PC fest.

I guess I'll tape it and see.

Later today: Worry no more! Cathy Seipp has seen it, and says:

How politically correct is Into the West, the epic 12-hour miniseries about pioneers and Indians that premieres Friday (with multiple repeats every weekend) on TNT? Not as much as you’d think! The sprawling Steven Spielberg production, which cost $50 million to make and another $50 million to promote, takes great pains to be authentic all around but particuarly with the Native American actors, who were all forced to learn Lakota. But any film that shows Indian hunters stampeding hundreds of buffalo off a cliff, as Into the West does in the first episode, isn’t being particularly delicate about portraying them as ecological saints.

Posted by Ithildin at June 10, 2005 9:30 AM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE