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What's your favorite movie? What makes it so great?
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Tue 25 Sep 2007
Okay why isnt this movie on the list and CITIZEN CANE is?!? I’m so confused because I think The Last of the Mohicans is so inspiring, and the story line is amazing. The movie keeps your attention the whole time and is very meaningful to me!
Fri 17 Aug 2007
I have seen many different epic films on TV, some with my dad. But most of these I see with him are boring that are historic and so full of deaths. However, since the Star Wars trilogy changed the era of sci-fi and special effects, I started to find some epic films worth watching, as long as they contain these parts. I have started to add that film as my 1st favourite trilogy, along with ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ which I started to love at 15 years old. However, when I was 16 and at the end of my GCSE exams, I started seeing a film I had heard about on the Internet and thought this would also be something worth watching.
It was ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ that replaced my two favourite films as 1st best and made them my 2nd favourite films. The reason why I love it as my favourite is because I found the action sequences to be thrilling and wishing that I’d be able to do it. Also, some of the romance within the film really moved me even though it wasn’t never-ending. The storyline I would say is pretty well adapted from the original novel and other adaptions. The music was so atmospheric, pacing and moody. I found Daniel Day-Lewis to play his leading part pretty well in this film as he had worked so hard to prepare for this charcter. I feel dissapointed that he didn’t get an Oscar nomination for it, which I felt he deserved.
When I begin to recommend to anyone to watch this film, the only people who doesn’t find this worthy are my family especially my mum, who thinks that the violence is pretty scary and gory. I have to convince many times that Lord of the Rings, which she loves has violence too. But in my opinion, this is one of those that make epic films worth watching. The action! The romance! The drama! Even the thrill! I shall never give this up as my favourite film.
Thu 21 Jun 2007
DANIEL DAY LEWIS - THE INCREDIBLE MUSIC - THE REAL INDIANS!!!
Thu 21 Jun 2007
It has it all-cinemetography, scenery, suspense,drama … and romance too. A winner.
Thu 14 Jun 2007
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) directed by Michael Mann is my favorite movie of all time.
Not only is the cinematography breathtaking, it is so powerful that without script or music the pictures would tell the story perfectly, burning holes in your soul. (Remember Alice floating to her death to join her beloved Uncas?) I have yet to discover a movie with as much potential. The orchestral theme is - for lack of a better word - resonating.
Then there are the actors. Supported by an impeccable backdrop of scenery and sound, they delivered the scant dialogue with all the grace of their classical training. But let’s not forget that about fifty percent of this movie captures the actors in silence. Stowe’s stunning display of facial gymnastics had her growing from vulnerable to seething to heartbroken and she made you believe every word she did not say. (Who can forget the scene when Hawkeye stares at Cora until she blushes prettily, and he leaves with a satisfied grin? Or when Uncas appears in the sprinkled shade of the trees as he gazes at Alice by the river…and we spy this moment in which he falls in love with her? Or the trackers’ tireless search for Cora, Alice, and Maj. Duncan?) The juxtaposition of silent lovemaking and canons, light and dark, expansive mountainous views and cramped officers’ cabins, French with native tongue…in my opinion, no one has ever or will ever make a better movie (although great movies of different genres exist, e.g. “Crash”).
My point is this: “timeless” is not a word that begins to describe this movie…because the movie lends me a view of the volatile period it portrays that is “more deeply bestowing to my blood than any imagining could possibly have been.” (Cora Munro to Hawkeye), and because the movie’s portrayal of the past possesses eternally relevant commentary…
Cora Munro: “The whole world’s on fire, isn’t it?”
Thu 31 May 2007
The cinematography is incredible, the romance is sexy, and when its over I immediately want to watch it again.
