An epic in the North American colonies-"The Last Mohican"

Susie 2021-11-14 08:01:26


Recently, I have been studying American history seriously. This is another focus of my study in addition to Japanese history, Soviet history, and Roman history. When I saw the historical background of the Seven Years War between Britain and France, I was introduced to this. The movie "The Last Mohican". I watched this book on the shelf of the bookstore for a long time. I liked the beginning of the movie very much. The music caught me tightly. The majestic North American mountains were matched with a heroic and sad music. This melody was comparable to the wonderful performance of the Scottish bagpipe in "Brave Heart".

The film tells the story of the last few warriors of the Mohican tribe among the Indians who rescued the captured daughters of two British generals. Beyond this main line, we see the complicated historical relationship between Britain and France and the local Indian tribes. There is the pain of the clash of civilizations. Several Mohican warriors are white Indians. This is also a sad elegy sung to the Indian civilization. At the end of the movie, the last old Mohican warrior sighed, Mo Xigan tribes and Indian peoples will disappear, white people will come more, there will be brand-new countries, brand-new peoples will cultivate on this land, but it is undeniable that we have also been in this area in history. Existed on the land.


The process of civilization is not tender, and has historical pains. The sad Indian nation is also an existence that advocates the harmony between heroes and nature. They did exist.

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  • Camylle 2021-11-14 08:01:26

    2012-178. Replay! The music is majestic, the photography is poignant...

  • Miles 2022-03-21 09:01:42

    I always thought it was a story of Indians resisting the colonizers, but I didn't expect that two different Indian tribes killed each other for their British masters and French masters... Daniel Day-Lewis plays the white child adopted by the Mohicans, with long hair and a long gun running in the forest is super cool~ Speaking of Indians and colonists, I think of it, so far I haven't watched "With "Wolf Dance", we should make up the class.

The Last of the Mohicans quotes

  • [last lines]

    [Director's Expanded Edition]

    Chingachgook: The frontier moves with the sun and pushes the Red Man of these wilderness forests in front of it until one day there will be nowhere left. Then our race will be no more, or be not us.

    Hawkeye: That is my father's sadness talking.

    Chingachgook: No, it is true. The frontier place is for people like my white son and his woman and their children. And one day there will be no more frontier. And men like you will go too, like the Mohicans. And new people will come, work, struggle. Some will make their life. But once, we were here.

  • Maj. Duncan Heyward: Might I inquire after the situation sir, given that I've seen the French engineering from the ridge above.

    Colonel Munro: The situation is that his guns are bigger than mine and he has more of them. We keep our heads down while his troops dig 30 yards of trench a day. When those trenches are 200 yards from the fort and within range, he'll bring in his 15-inch mortars, lob explosive rounds over our walls, and pound us to dust.