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Genre | Western, Action |
Format | Dolby, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Widescreen, Color |
Contributor | Richard Mulligan, Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Jeff Corey, Arthur Penn |
Language | English |
Runtime | 2 hours and 19 minutes |
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Product Description
Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens, 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) narrates the story of being the only white survivor of Custer's Last Stand. White orphan Crabb was adopted by the Cheyenne, renamed "Little Big Man," and raised in the ways of the "Human Beings" by paternal mentor Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George), accepting non-conformity and living peacefully with nature. Violently thrust into the white world, Jack meets a righteous preacher (Thayer David) and his wife (Faye Dunaway), tries to be a gunfighter under the tutelage of Wild Bill Hickock (Jeff Corey), and gets married. Returned to the Cheyenne by chance, Jack prefers life as a Human Being. The carnage wreaked by the white man in the Washita massacre and the lethal fallout from the egomania of General George A. Custer (Richard Mulligan) at Little Big Horn, however, show Crabb the horrific implications of Old Lodge Skins' sage observation, "There is an endless supply of White Men, but there has always been a limited number of Human Beings."
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 0.64 ounces
- Audio Description: : English, French
- Item model number : 5026-601-800
- Director : Arthur Penn
- Media Format : Dolby, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Widescreen, Color
- Run time : 2 hours and 19 minutes
- Release date : November 8, 2011
- Actors : Chief Dan George, Jeff Corey, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Richard Mulligan
- Subtitles: : English
- Language : Unqualified
- Studio : Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00003CXB5
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,420 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #58 in Westerns (Movies & TV)
- #358 in Action & Adventure DVDs
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He relates his incredible story throughout the movie in the form of narration to a disbelieving reporter, especially doubtful over Crabb's claim that he is the sole white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn, in Crabb's own words, "popularly knowed as Custer's Last Stand."
He and his sister are taken in by a tribe of Cheyenne (who call themselves the "Human Beings"), where he spends his early years, until one of the many twists and turns of his life puts him back in the company of whites, this time with a firey preacher and his less than virtuous wife, played by Faye Dunaway.
I don't want to give away too much of the story by detailing more of odd turns his life subsequently takes, but he does go back and forth between the worlds of the whites and the Cheyenne.
The other notable actors in this movie are Martin Balsam, Chief Dan George, Jeff Corey, and Richard Mulligan (what a performance!), who plays Custer.
Balsam plays the part of snake oil salesman Alardyce T. Meriwheather, and he plays the role to its cynical best, as Balsam always seemed to do so well in all the movies he made.
Jeff Corey plays Wild Bill Hickok, and he brings great humanity to the role, both surprisingly genteel in his treatment of Crabb and paranoid from the knowledge that he was targeted by others.
Chief Dan George plays Old Lodgeskins, Crabb's adopted "grandfather" after the Cheyenne took him after his family had been massacred by the Pawnee, and he turns in a great performance, at times dejected about the fate that awaits his people and deadpanning such funny comments as (when asking about Crabb's wife) "Does she show pleasant enthusiasm when you mount her?" and other hilarious statements.
Most memorable of all, Richard Mulligan as Custer is really something to behold, displaying all the recklessness and borderline psychosis that the real Custer most likely had.
Crabb has multiple close brushes with death, and there are lots of funny situations, including one where he meets none other than William Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, played beautifully by Jeff Corey.
However, while very funny, there are some moments of sickening brutality, as the Cheyenne are steadily squeezed out by the likes of the ambitious Custer.
This is a complex story that effectively uses the juxtaposition of humor with tragedy to give life to both.
Hoffman's performance is simply astonishing, going from a very young teen, to a young man, to middle aged, to drunk, to hermit, to very old man.
Hoffman's old man makeup is remarkable, and Hoffman himself screamed for an extended period before filming the parts with him in the makeup to give his voice that raspy and harsh old man's quality.
This is one of those movies I always just come back to watch each year or so, as it is just so good.
It is based on the excellent Thomas Berger novel, which I have also read, and there are a few key differences, notably the relationship between Crabb and Hickok, and what happens to Hoffman's "grandfather" Cheyenne chief Old Lodgeskins.
Hoffman's skill as an actor is in little doubt, but his performance here is quite possibly his greatest in a long line ("Kramer vs. Kramer," "Rainman," "Tootsie," "Midnight Cowboy") of great performances.
If you enjoy complexity in a story and a wonderful sense of wry humor, you will love this movie.
Not Little Big Man, book OR movie. It's a fast paced romp that you can't put it down ~ OR turn it off! The movie follows the book extremely close and I enjoyed the movie so much being I could recall the book so well.
I was into all those famous characters of the Old West; Buffalo Bill Cody (read his bio as well).
'Son Of The Morning Star' is also an excellent book on George Armstrong Custer as it is a history of that time period which lead to The Last Stand with the Indians. Bury Me At Wounded Knee, if you have read that one you will see it played out in 'Real Time' watching 'Little Big Man', which is quite heart rending, I cried big time. Anyway, this movie is truly excellent. Dustin Hoffman was truly a well portrayed Jack Crabb. It portrays the Old West in living color. You will feel like you traveled in a Time Machine.
VIDEO....
A fairly old movie originally shot on film, it still retains its theatrical legs. The transfer to video displays life like colors in all areas, i.e. skin, environment as it pertains to the grassy plains. Color resolution is good and does not pop as many of today's films do. Blacks do not go very deep but contrast is fairly good. Small details tend to vary depending upon the scene. Close ups of Dustin Hoffman clearly show distinct skin pores, yet scenes with the prairie or hair on a persons head tend to be slightly soft as film often creates. The average Mbps rate is in the high teens and low 20's. There is a slight grain throughout but this is only noticeable when the sky is predominant in the image. All in all, the transfer is quite good but I clearly do not believe that this was remastered for BR but simply transcoded. Never the less, I saw no artifacting or hairs, scratches or any other issue with the transfer. A good film but you will probably not see that much of a significant improvement between the Standard Def format and the BR.
AUDIO...
The audio is a lossless DTS 5.1 which creates a transparent dialogue for the listener. However, there is a very, very little use of the surrounds in your home theater setup. Only at the end of the film, during the Custer's Last Stand scene was there any real panning of the audio between the front and rear stages. The LFE channel gets no use at all since there really wasn't any deep bass recorded. I do wish they had remastered the soundtrack as there would have been plenty of opportunities in this film for discreet channeling.
EXTRAS...
There are none other than a trailer.
Glad I have this film and will watch it every once in a blue moon but do not expect a high end video or audio experience.
I do hope that this review has been of some HELP to you in deciding your purchase. All my reviews focus solely upon the quality of the actual disc and not redundant summaries and acting opinions.
Thanks for reading.
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Ungewöhnlich für einen Spielfilm: eine Rahmenhandlung wie in Romanen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der 121 Jahre alte Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) wird im Altersheim von einem jungen Reporter interviewt, der wissen will, wie es mal so war, das Leben bei den Indianern. Crabb, einziger weißer Überlebender der Schlacht am Little Big Horn River 1876, holt weit aus und schildert einen Lebenslauf zwischen den Welten, zwischen der Welt der (Cheyenne-)Indianer und der Welt der weißen Siedler und Militärs. Und es besteht kein Zweifel, welche die bessere, humanere und ethisch höher stehende ist – die Welt der brutalen, heimtückischen, bigotten Weißen ist es gewiss nicht.
Der Film von Arthur Penn gilt als „Anti-Western“ wegen dieser Aussage, aber es ist eine Botschaft, die in ihrem Sarkasmus zwar deutlich genug, aber nie zwanghaft und mit erhobenem Zeigefinger verbreitet wird, sondern mit Leichtigkeit, Ironie, szenischer Fantasie und wunderbaren Darstellern. Für Dustin Hoffman ist es eine Rolle, die genau das braucht, was er hat: eine Wandlungsfähigkeit, ein Nuancenreichtum in Mimik und Gesten, die grenzenlos scheinen. Vom kleinen Jungen mit staunenden großen Augen bis hin zum grantigen Greis (an dessen Gesichtsfalten sich ein Maskenbildner bis zum Exzess ausgetobt hat) beherrscht Hoffman alle denkbaren Lebenslagen. Er ist ein von den Cheyenne akzeptierter Quasi-Indianer, aber wenn es brenzlig wird, gibt er sich bei Weißen als Weißer zu erkennen; von denen wird er ausgebeutet, gedemütigt, er wird zum Säufer und findet zurück zu den Cheyenne, deren Humanität mehr als einmal sein Leben rettet, während er unter Weißen nie dauerhaft seine Rolle findet.
Als ergänzender Gegenpart, keineswegs als Gegner, der zweite großartige Darsteller (sieht man von der Prägnanz einer Faye Dunaway in einer wunderbar zwiespältigen, bigotten Nebenrolle ab): der kanadische Indigene Chief Dan George (1899-1981) als Cheyenne-Weiser Old Lodge Skins. Der Chief, Angehöriger der Tseil-Waututh Nation, erhielt für diese als Nebenrolle definierte Partie den Oscar, aber es ist keine Nebenrolle, sondern eine mit tragendem Gewicht von Humanität, Gelassenheit und Weisheit, die dem Chaos der brutalen Kolonisierung moralisch standhält. Dass zwei weitere Cheyenne-Partien von Darstellern aus dem Fernen Osten verkörpert werden, muss man wohl der damaligen Hollywood-Praxis zuschreiben, indianische Rollen noch vornehmlich von Weißen spielen zu lassen und die eigentlich authentischen Darsteller zu ignorieren.
Es gibt viele überraschende, bewegende Szenen, etliche köstlich ausformuliert als Western-Satire. Und es gibt Szenen, die gerade wegen ihrer schwebenden Leichtigkeit unvergesslich bleiben. Beispielsweise als Little Big Man (den die Cheyenne wegen seiner geringen Körpergröße und seinem großen Mut so nennen) seinen Indianer-„Großvater“ Chief Dan George (= Old Lodge Skins) während des (historischen) Massakers am Washita River 1868 mitten durchs Schlachtgetümmel rettet: Der Chief ist altersblind, und Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) redet ihm ein, er brauche sich nicht zu fürchten, er sei ja unsichtbar. Der Chief freut sich kindlich: „Ich war noch nie unsichtbar...“
Und dann die unnachahmliche Schluss-Sequenz. Der Chief fühlt sein Lebensende nah, lässt sich den Sterbemantel bringen und von Crabb auf einen Berg führen, wo er singend seinen Sterbetanz vollführt, wie es sich gehört. Er legt sich auf die Erde und wartet auf das Ende, während unversehens kleine helle Punkte wie Sterne auf seinem Gesicht erscheinen – Regentropfen, die zum rauschenden Dauerguss werden. Der Chief: „Bin ich noch da oder schon fort?“ Nein, er ist noch da, er lässt sich von Crabb aufrichten, und während sie langsam im Regen den Berg hinuntergehen, sagt er noch: „Ja, der Zauber wirkt eben nicht immer. Aber wir wollen erstmal etwas essen, sie macht einen hervorragenden Hundebraten.“
Ist „Little Big Man“ ein großer Film? Auf jeden Fall ein Epoche machender. Ein leichter, weiser, nachdenklicher und ein spannender und lustiger Film. Ein sehr besonderer auf jeden Fall.
Acababa de leer el libro (publicado con el mismo título en la colección frontera) y me apetecía tener la película. El libro es fantástico. Muy recomendable.