Random mini pic spam: SHACWTTOHRJSAC & the Last of the Mohicans

[koalathebear]

I was writing today about Zhang Zi Yi and her habit of Staring Hauntedly At Camera While Tragic Tendrils Of Hair Rest Just So Against Cheek (SHACWTTOHRJSAC) and it occurred to me that there's another very famous SHACWTTOHRJSAC that is one of my favourites in movie memories.

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[winterspel]

I always love it so much when you post about my favorite movies. This one is one of my very favorites, as I've mentioned before. I obsessed about it for years My college dorm was plastered with posters and 11x14 in. film cards from the film for two years. I think my obsession for it was finally supplanted when I saw The English Patient, but my adoration has never faded.

The funny thing, is that I react virtually the same way to the film - I hold my breath and screw up my face nearly every single time I watch it as I hope and pray that this time there will be a happy ending. I always freak out when I see Nathaniel racing to save Cora in the big massacre in the clearing scene, and then I also majorly freak out during the Alice/Uncas cliff scene. The expression of horror and utter anguish on Chingachgooks's face as he rounds the corner and comes on the scene of devastation always breaks me into a thousand tiny pieces. His son, his last son, braced for the killing blow. *cries

[ginger001]

I must confess this wasn't one of my favorite movies. In fact it took me long enough to watch it for the first time. I watched it once when I caught it on TV and loved it since. I have to say that the music is one of the things I adore from it, it's so powerful and beautiful... and that my honest reason to watch it was because Steven Waddington was in it (he's Maj. Duncan Heyward)... The scene with Alice broke my heart but before, with all that happens to Maj. Duncan and all, I was already upset :S

As I say I haven't seen the movie too many times because I cry like a baby every single one (there are too many pain and love lost)... but I love it and as you say Daniel Day-Lewis hasn't been hotter in any other movie ;)

[koalathebear]

The music is wonderful. I love the movie because it's epic and romantic without being annoying. I find a lot of epic movies annoying but I really liked the lead characters and the scenery was wonderful.

My dad doesn't really like it though. He always makes fun of Hawkeye running all the time ;)

[iluvhyperboles]

This is my VERY FAVORITE scene from the whole movie. Actually for me it begins from when Hawk Eye tries to plead with Sachem, the deal that was made (I loved how good and fast Duncan can translate from English to French!) to the very end...there are no words for the last 20 minutes or so, just music. I love the musical score in the background within those last few scenes and sadly enough that exact song is not on the soundtrack. :( My fiance and I may spend our honeymoon around the Chimney Rock park area in NC and spend a day on the that magical, beautiful cliff. And when i stand there I will think of Alice. :) I can't wait for my Last of the Mohicans Pilgrimage!

[koalathebear]

I know, I was such a geek and went to the Last of the Mohicans discussion board to ask if Steven Waddington really can speak French because he sounds so fluent!!! *is jealous*

I hate the director's cut though - which is the only version you can buy on dvd because it gets rid of the Clannad song, and takes out a lot of my favourite lines!!!! Grrr argh.

[winterspel]

I hate the director's cut though - which is the only version you can buy on dvd because it gets rid of the Clannad song, and takes out a lot of my favourite lines!!!! Grrr argh.

Not True! I believe that the UK version is not the director's cut, but rather the original version of the film. I was so pissed off when I heard that Michael Mann (who I love as a director) had taken out a few of my favorite parts of the film in the director's cut. It kills me because it's not like the film had only been out for a couple years but by the time the DVD had some out it had been nearly 10 years, so people had a long time to live with and love the original version. It's cruel not to offer the original cut (like LOTR) as well as the DC.

[koalathebear]

My adoration for it has never faded either. I'm pretty sure I saw it twice at the cinema. One on my own because I loved it so much. I get excited even when they have the opening bits here - yes I just capped them :P

[elspethsheir]

I adore Jodhi May, and think that she is vastly under-used, but she was so good in this film. Everyone was so great in this movie, in fact. The scene here is one of the most moving. I did enjoy Madeline Stowe in Blink, though that may be because I like Aidan Quinn!

[koalathebear]

I agree. I have to review documents now otherwise I'd be tempted to watch it again. I never get sick of this movie. "You stay alive! I will find you!" :D