Soldier Blue (2 Viewers)

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Has anyone seen this one or got any comments. I have only read about it. It came up as a suggestion on Amazon.com. Seems it is a 70's revisionist western supposed to be allegorical about Vietnam and includes graphic scenes of violence. Sounds a bit strong for me actually.
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Damian
 
I saw it in the seventies in a double bill with Straw Dogs. This was on first and Straw Dogs seemed like Noddy's playtime in comparison - a very powerful film with a very powerful message.
 
damian said:
Well you know I just cannot stand the sight of blood
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Damian, it is bits rather than blood........you know what I mean, a bad casualty Saturday night it isn't... well perhaps where you are???:confused:

.....and a lovely leading lady to take your mind off a bit....
 
damian said:
Has anyone seen this one or got any comments. I have only read about it. It came up as a suggestion on Amazon.com. Seems it is a 70's revisionist western supposed to be allegorical about Vietnam and includes graphic scenes of violence. Sounds a bit strong for me actually.
Regards
Damian
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Don't bother with it Damian.
It's a Rom-Com.
 
Harrytheheid said:
"Sleepless in Seattle with my hero Tom (QUIVER).
And Meg was particulary lush-looking in it as an added bonus.
Best war movie I've ever seen.
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Harry if I could spell it you are incorrigible! Just the thing after a long day at work! I agree BTW....oops Msss coming ......she hates Meg!
 
Assume from the posts absolutely no-one is interested in the film apart from Kevin that is.

Harry no need to answer I know what you're going to say already:D

Damian as Kevin-I've seen it on the big screen and DVD.

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UKReb said:
Assume from the posts absolutely no-one is interested in the film apart from Kevin that is.

Harry no need to answer I know what you're going to say already:D

Damian as Kevin-I've seen it on the big screen and DVD.

Reb
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LOL speak for yourself.....BTW what is the best ACW film??????? Gone with the Wind? - hope not.
 
UKReb said:
Assume from the posts absolutely no-one is interested in the film apart from Kevin that is.

Harry no need to answer I know what you're going to say already:D

Damian as Kevin-I've seen it on the big screen and DVD.

Reb
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Oh no you don't......:D
Actually, Soldier Blue is a brilliant, if somewhat brutal, depiction of life on the frontier. One of the first really accurate movies to portray life and death the way it is. No nambey-pambey New Men or Tree-Huggers here.
Thoroughly recommended Damian, go for it.
Title song's pretty good too, if you can stand Buffy Sainte Marie's rather strange singing voice. Oh, her album "Coincidence and Likely Stories" is brilliant an'all.

Cheers
H
 
This is the subject of Soldier Blue (1970)
[It was meant as a parallel to the recent 1968 My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.] Remember that the Americans called Vietnam Indian Country and don't forget Robert Duvall's Air Cav officer, Col. Kilgore in Apocalypse Now as a further parallel to the Plains Indian Wars

"At Sand Creek on November 29, 1864, John Chivington led the Colorado Volunteers in a dawn attack on Black Kettle and his band, who had been told they would be safe on this desolate reservation. Two hundred Cheyenne men, women and children were slaughtered, and their corpses often grotesquely mutilated, in a massacre that shocked the nation."

Candace Bergen was the lead.


 

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An interesting point on this 40 odd year old movie is that in the UK we apparently have never seen the uncensored version which surprised me because when I saw it in London on it's release it was a pretty gruesome movie with enough rape and vivid slaughter/be-headings/close-up scalping of women and children to last a movie-goer for at least a decade if not more.

The DVD is definitely santized from the version I saw in the cinema, but only recently I read in a movie-mag why Britain has never seen the full uncensored version- there were too many horse-falls that were deemed as cruelty to animals.
Smoke on that for a while!

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UKReb said:
An interesting point on this 40 odd year old movie is that in the UK we apparently have never seen the uncensored version which surprised me because when I saw it in London on it's release it was a pretty gruesome movie with enough rape and vivid slaughter/be-headings/close-up scalping of women and children to last a movie-goer for at least a decade if not more.

The DVD is definitely santized from the version I saw in the cinema, but only recently I read in a movie-mag why Britain has never seen the full uncensored version- there were too many horse-falls that were deemed as cruelty to animals.
Smoke on that for a while!

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Well one of the reviews I read said it had a Gore count higher than Cannibal Holocaust. That movie was also censored because in one scene they killed a turtle to eat. There was plenty of violence and gratuitous nudity in Cannibal Holocaust
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Damian
 
damian said:
Well one of the reviews I read said it had a Gore count higher than Cannibal Holocaust. That movie was also censored because in one scene they killed a turtle to eat. There was plenty of violence and gratuitous nudity in Cannibal Holocaust
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Damian
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There was plenty of violence and gratuitous nudity in Cannibal Holocaust

Really...??? Sounds just my cup of Rosie Lea. Must remember to have a hunt for it when I hit the UK.

Thanks for the "Heads Up" Damian.

Cheers
H
 
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