πŸŽ₯ I recently watched The Last of the Mohicans (1992) for the first time since it came out, and my main thoughts are

  • The best actor in the movie, by miles, is Wes Studi.Β 
  • MERCY, did Peter Jackson go to school on this movie. Scene after scene in The Fellowship of the Ring, and some in The Two Towers, are almost directly copied from this film.Β 
  • Michael Mann is such a β€œcity” director that it’s constantly surprising to see how beautifully he films forests and streams β€” and, in one memorable case, people crossing a bridge: