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Your favorite scene?

posted 18 years ago by sierraromeo
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Well, I was ditching school yesterday and as I was leaving the school grounds, a school policeman was riding by on his bicycle and I tried to act as inconspicuous as possible and he looked right passed me. This totally made me think of the scene in Little Big Man where Dustin Hoffman and Old Lodge Skin were leaving the battlefield, and they walked across untouched and unnoticed. What is your favorite scene in the movie and can you relate to any particular part as well?

[–] zacuan 18 years ago

That scene is also my favorite scene in the movie, partly because of the "invisible" portion, which is done wonderfully. After reading "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee", that massacre scene strikes me as the most realistic, historically accurate and heart wrenching scene in the entire film.

[–] Skragg 17 years ago

Perhaps the first reunion with Little Horse.

[–] stderr 17 years ago

- Many great scenes in this movie. Off the top I'll pick any of Jack's visits with Grandfather.

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Old Lodge Skins: Let's go back to the teepee and eat, my son. My new snake wife cooks dog very well.

Jack: Alright, Grandfather.

Old Lodge Skins: She also has a very soft skin. The only trouble with snake women is they copulate with horses, which makes them strange to me. She say's she doesn't. That's why I call her "Doesn't Like Horses". But, of course, she's lying.

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The scene where grandfather Lodge Skins goes out to die but fails is also great.

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Chief Dan George was also phenomenal in Outlaw Josey Wales. 'Endeavor to persevere.'

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[–] submerged99 17 years ago

My favorite scene is near the very end.

Lodgeskins does not die and he and little big man began walking back to camp in the rain.

They are having a discussion and the camera focuses on the plains with the falling rain. After Little Big Man says "of course grandfather" they are no longer visible and camera lingers for awhile.

[–] bravehome 16 years ago

Although the scene is heart-wrenching for me to watch, the scene where Jack Crabb witnesses the brutal murder of his wife and son is for me the most memorable scene in the movie. The part where all sound (especially that incongruous 7th cavalry music) disappears has me trance-like suspended (just as Jack was) each time I see it....