The part I liked best was the very long passage of music that plays when everyone is running along the cliff sides in pursuit, and what's her name jumps off.

It's a great, fast-paced piece that at a point lets in a lovely rendition of the main theme to accompany a view of the scenery.

Is this piece found in entirety on either of the score releases??

The original release has most of the original cue intactt, but goes a little haywire at the point where Uncas is killed and Alice kills hereselff. The knew release by Joel McNeelyy has the piece a little more intact, but I do not like te orchestration as much.

I would absolutely add this to your collection...a must have.

It is widely reported that Michael ‘Mediocre’ Mann’s piss-pathetic 1992 version of LAST OF THE MOHICANS is due to be screened on British terrestrial television (specifically BBC2) at 2100GMT tonight.

Short of suicide or emigration, take every feasible measure to avoid watching this limp-wristed, lame and tediously contrived bastardization of history – LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1992) outdoes even the Teletubbies for lame-brained and infantile wish-fulfilment.

Apart from being a tame and impotent white-washing and distortion of the time and place masquerading as political-correctness, worse still, LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1992) is an affront to the North American Indian.

Why must a film serve as a historical documentary? Granted if this film were on PBS or BBC and marketed as so, I would expect an unflinching historical narrative. In addition, the movie was based on a book that should be considered anything but historically accurate.

Daniel, I remember your words from the Knighthood thread regarding this film...in its depiction of British soldiers. Your words are completely true, but for some reason you take affront to media intended purely as entertainment. For limp-brained Americans you witness the film and believe in its authenticity...well...there will be no true historical education for them regardless.

Anyway, I enjoyed the movie as historical "fiction" and no more. As far as the music goes...I'll leave that one to personal taste.

Take care all.

Yes, you are right. A movie’s historical inaccuracy is no real reason to dismiss it, and indeed, much as BRAVEHEART’s legion of historical inaccuracies was amusing, I still thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

However, I found Mann’s LAST OF THE MOHICANS a dismal movie offering for every reason (apart from the photography), although I readily accept that I am in the minority here, as many people, such as yourself, regard the movie highly.

And you are right again when you say that Cooper’s book was anything but historically authentic. Although I personally don’t take any movie seriously at all, it is just a little sad that many people do seem to watch movies such as BRAVEHEART, LAST OF THE MOHICANS and THE PATRIOT and regard them as authentic representations of history.

I can only hope that such historically distorted movies as THE PATRIOT may at least spur the viewer to investigate the facts.

I find a lot of movies spur my interest in finding out the real history of something.
most notable example came from Stigmata, which gives great significance to the supposed Gospel of Thomas. My girlfriend at the time and myself started doing some web searches and found a wealth of information.
I had never read the text of this thing before, and now it's confirmed, the thing's bogus. if you're at all familiar with the Bible, it's inconsistent in tone and writing style with the rest of the books in the Bible, and specifically the New Testament.
it just sounds uninspired.

but enough of that. this is not a religious board.

Films such as Braveheart, Rob Roy, The Patriot, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List...etc all suffer from some form of historical inaccuracies but can maintain some semblance of spirit from the true story they are trying to tell.

Unfortunately, for the modern movie-going crowd, true history just is not interesting enough to warrant $9.00. Oh well, we'll always have the wonderful History Channel to turn to. We can start to worry when Hollywood becomes our only source of historical knowledge.

I Havent written on this board in ages and ages put I was compelled to after reading these post about Last of the Mohicans. I'm not sure what historical accuracy has to do with the quality of score. The majority of movies made are not historically accurate and should be considered as "historical fiction" as opposed to anything else. I dont really think James F. Cooper intended Last of the Mohicans to be historically accurate when he wrote the novel anyhow so I dont think you can fault the movie for not being as such. Some posted that they considered the score to be "cheesy" I'm just curious as to why? I personally thought it was a beautiful score and a good (albeit not great) movie. But then again I also liked the scores to Braveheart, The Patriot, Elizabeth,Rob Roy and Gladiator which are all not entirely historically accurate but who cares as long as the music is well composed?

What a movie like Last of the Mohicans provides, is an entertaining adventure set amid historical context, that can be compelling to watch but also stimulate you to learn more about the period presented. In that sense the movie succeeds on mutiple levels.

But it you thought it sucked or was boring...that's a different story, and a point that is not really open to debate.

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Originally posted by Quill:
[B]Honestly, I don't quite get the previous quote regarding orchestrations (perhaps it was in regards to the Edelmen portions...oh well.

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