Man, lucky the Native Americans and that ridiculously inept female FBI agent had a tough, super capable, middle-aged white guy to look after them.
I'd say Taylor Sheridan really needs a new schtick, but he keeps getting award nominations for this one-note dreck.
Tough old white guys are just plain superior. You better believe it, son.
shareI understand your point. Although this is generally a pretty good film; it does endorse white masculinity. I really wish Corey had been a Native American man, instead of another "white savior" trope.
shareShould films not "endorse white masculinity?"
shareIt's not that they should or shouldn't (my favorite action films display white masculinity); I'm simply pointing out the fact that it does so. For a movie that claims to sympathize with Native Americans, I find it contradictory that the hero is another white savior character. Corey married a native woman - Natalie's boyfriend is a 40 year old white dude - Seeing Corey clobber two native guys in the face with a shovel, then kick one of them in the face while he's down. I really wish Adam Beach had been cast as the male protagonist instead.
shareI remember reading an interview with Taylor Sheridan a while back where he addressed this point head on, and he said he made the protagonist a white guy because he only felt qualified to write from a white person's perspective. Even though he has spent a lot of time on reservations, he didn't feel like it was appropriate to write a story with a native character as the lead, when he's never actually lived that life.
I wish I could find the interview but it was ages ago now when I read it.
What a bigot you are! Ya know, politicians & the left have made it perfectly acceptable to be a bigot nowadays. It's sick. White this, white that. Why are you even bringing that up? The race of the character somehow offended you? That is utterly ridiculous!
share@BrunoAntony: so nice of you to show us all what a racist p.o.s you are. Well done.
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