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Indians Shanghaied by Shanghai Noon
(6/20/00)


A response to Indians Shanghaied by Shanghai Noon:

Jordan:

My favorite line (translated from Sioux): "Oh great, now he's talking slower...like that's going to help...."

Lance:

That was my favorite line from that scene too. As far as inaccuracies (and there were many...I didn't sweat it too much as the whole thing was kind of like a cartoon in my mind)...why were the Indians in Nevada Sioux? Shouldn't they have been Paiute or some other Nevada tribe? And criminey the same for the "Crows" (who looked a lot more like Pawnee or Sauk) who should have been up in Montana or Wyoming etc.? Anyhow, I thought at least to Jackie's credit he had the "Crows" fight pretty damn good (even though they eventually had to lose to Chan...after all it was HIS movie!) You know, I pretty much have given up on Indians ever being treated accurately in movies. I like some "Indian movies" and I don't like others, and I tend to go with, is it a good story and are the Indian characters treated like real people, with quirks and strengths? Also for criminey's sake I am looking forward to a movie where the poor Pawnee or Crow get to be "the good Injuns" and the Lakota or Cheyenne get a turn at being the bad guys!! HAHAH! LIke THAT'll ever happen!


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