Cowboys & indians

[madloaf]

Start with Brokeback mountain and see if he's still interested after that.

What a great film. I don't remember any "indians" in it....not that i think that's why it was a great film i want to stress.

 

[Bill Walker]

Good question @cityontheup a lot of the greatest Westerns have no Indians, like Clint Eastwoods films and also truly great films like The War Waggon, High Noon, 3:10 to Yuma, Warlock, Liberty Valance, The Shootist, The Gunfighter etc etc.

As an avid fan of Westerns, I'd say;

The Searchers
Stagecoach
Little Big Man
The Revenant
Comanche
Dances With Wolves

All these involve the "war" between cowboys and Indians and are very highly rated with high scores on IMDB and Tomato.
Movies with Indians often make the Indians out to be the enemy, but a lot of Westerns show Indians in a very honorable light and very much the victim. Depending on the director.

At the end of the day they are just films with a script.

 

[Blue Mist]

Sorry mate that’s gone right over my head!

As an 8 yr old did you never march round the playground, with your arms interlocked over your mates shoulders shouting 'All in for cowboys and indians' ?
NO !!!!

Just me and @johnnytapia then.

 

[lazerblue]

Four feather falls.

fuckin brilliant, soon as it finished we'd run into the street singing the theme tune, can't get it out of my head now ffs

 

[City Hobgoblin]

As an 8 yr old did you never march round the playground, with your arms interlocked over your mates shoulders shouting 'All in for cowboys and indians' ?
NO !!!!

Just me and @johnnytapia then.

By the time everyone had joined on the bell went to go back into class

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Whooped and hollered as an Injun, until well into my twenties - a boy named Sioux...

 

[cityontheup]

As an 8 yr old did you never march round the playground, with your arms interlocked over your mates shoulders shouting 'All in for cowboys and indians' ?
NO !!!!

Just me and @johnnytapia then.

No sorry mate that’s a new one on me

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

They could probably be classed as period dramas nowadays.

 

[hilts]

Just had a chat with my 10 year old grandson who had no idea who/ what cowboys and Indians were. You could put this down to a generational thing, not being taught US history and not watching old westerns on the telly. I just found it amazing he didn’t know, so being a film fan, here’s a question. What 5 films would you choose to teach him about cowboys & Indians?

Blazing saddles and Carry on up the Khyber

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon is one of the least unsympathetic of a typical Western towards the native Americans.

And they still aren't treated particularly well to this day

 

[johnnytapia]

As an 8 yr old did you never march round the playground, with your arms interlocked over your mates shoulders shouting 'All in for cowboys and indians' ?
NO !!!!

Just me and @johnnytapia then.

Good lad!!!! Kids of today hey?!?

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

The Lone Ranger
Pocahontas (no cowboys but lots of Injuns and nasty Brits)

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

 

[Xhavenjoe]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Now he was an Indian

 

[Xhavenjoe]

The comedy with Bob Hope " Son of Pale Face".
I think Jane Russell is in it.
Enough said

 

[southamptonblue]

Admittedly missing Indians (or Native Americans as we should say these days) I'd recommend that timeless classic, Shane, starring Alan Ladd as the itinerant gunslinger trying to escape his past and Jack Palance as the ultimate cold-hearted villain. Any 10 year old viewer couldn't help but identify with the homesteaders' son who hero worships Shane, hired to fight an evil cattle baron and his henchmen intent on driving the family off their land. Exciting and poignant in equal measure, Shane is not only a classic Western but, in my view, one of the best movies ever made.

I think he would like the scene where the kid bites the candy as Shane decks someone ;)

 

[Barcon]

Now he was an Indian

Affectionately known over here as a, "B.F.I".

 

[TonyM]

As an 8 yr old did you never march round the playground, with your arms interlocked over your mates shoulders shouting 'All in for cowboys and indians' ?
NO !!!!

Just me and @johnnytapia then.

Hiya wowa hiya wowa ....

 

[yankblue]

Outside of the obvious (Last of the Mohicans& Dances with Wolves) Lonesome Dove maybe? Great book & miniseries although maybe a bit dated

Outlaw Josie Wales
Unforgiven
Jeremiah Johnson

Plenty of Cowboy movies, not many kind to the Indians...

 

[Koniec]

Blazing Saddles.