{"id":13966,"date":"2021-01-10T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13966"},"modified":"2021-01-10T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T21:41:26","slug":"the-last-of-the-mohicans-1992-michael-mann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13966","title":{"rendered":"The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very historical-fiction adventure, not my favorite sort of thing, and I&#8217;m pretty sure I prefer Late Mann, beginning around <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11173\">Ali<\/a><\/em>.  The last of his theatrical features I hadn&#8217;t seen, though half of those are due a rewatch.  That leaves <em>The Jericho Mile<\/em>&#8230; the proto-Heat <em>L.A. Takedown<\/em>&#8230; some early doc shorts that are probably unavailable&#8230; and I&#8217;ll probably never get to the TV series (<em>Miami Vice<\/em>, <em>Crime Story<\/em>, <em>Vega$<\/em>).  This was about the twentieth filmed version of the novel, but the credits specify that it&#8217;s a remake of the 1930&#8217;s Randolph Scott film.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/mohicans1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The Mohawk are joining the Brits fighting against the French, but the French have got Magua (Wes Studi) who has a huge vendetta against a Brit major whose daughter Madeleine Stowe (<em>12 Monkeys<\/em>) falls for Mohican DDL.  They&#8217;re all trapped in a fort under siege, led by a tyrant major, who has a falling out with the other major (I noted that both majors are terrible).<\/p>\n<p>I only knew two things about this from the advertising: that DDL is the last of the Mohicans (it&#8217;s actually his friend), and that the movie&#8217;s about him looking for a woman after telling her to stay alive, and that whatever may occur, he will find her (he finds her two scenes later, on the same day).\t<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/mohicans2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/mohicans3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very historical-fiction adventure, not my favorite sort of thing, and I&#8217;m pretty sure I prefer Late Mann, beginning around Ali. The last of his theatrical features I hadn&#8217;t seen, though half of those are due a rewatch. That leaves The Jericho Mile&#8230; the proto-Heat L.A. Takedown&#8230; some early doc shorts that are probably unavailable&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,1389,194,830],"class_list":["post-13966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-daniel-day-lewis","tag-michael-mann","tag-native-americans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14023,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions\/14023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}