Talk:A Man Called Horse (film)

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Section "Representation of cultures"
The section now consists of a first paragraph, added by FT2 on 2 July 2007, that seems to imply the film is historically accurate, and a second paragraph, added by Joefernandez on 4 February 2008, which seems to be saying the exact opposite.

The second paragraph is editorializing and unreferenced. It is not stated whether the Jacquelyn Kilpatrick quotation is from her book Celluloid Indians or from another book or article by her. (At any rate, the rather cautious phrasing in the quotation that the film "must be discussed in terms of reality and authenticity" hardly proves Kilpatrick to be a "heavy" critic of it.)

In spite of its shortcomings, I was reluctant to just remove the second paragraph because it seems to contain a valid point that might be "saved" by adding a more precise reference and removing the editorializing. I added the tag in the hope that somebody will be able to check some sources, work the section over and make a nice, balanced synthesis :D  --Bwiki (talk) 23:14, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

My issues with the descriptor of this film as being part english and " part souix " are several. First there is no " souix language ". And second is that although there are several lakota words badly pronounced in the film, they are interspersed amongst absolute gibberish. There are 3 main souixan languages - dakota, lakota, and nakota, and it seems that the few lakota words that were brutalized by the actors do exist, they don't even come close to the meanings ascribed to them in the subtitles. Facialfirearms (talk) 05:21, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

batise not baptiste
per the film credits as well as imdb — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.186.86.53 (talk) 02:02, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

To add to article
Basic information to add to this article: is this film based on a true story, or entirely fictional? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:25, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Psuedo Cultural representation
All of the ideas behind the psuedospiritual scenes are non existant within the culture being represented. A scene in which Richard Harris is seen in a sweatlodge ostensibly performing an Inipi ceremony literally has no bearing whatsoever on the actual use of the Inipi, or the Hanblecheya or " vision quest " ( also a misnomer ) which it implies is happening. Every single spiritual scene is an utter fabrication no different from the terrible representations of native people in the westerns of the 1950s and 60s. This film in no way represents any actual Lakota spirituality, but does represent the post hippie idea of embracing the idea of native spirituality even though the people involved never actually learned any of those ideas from any actually practising native people, with false ideas being promulgated. Facialfirearms (talk) 05:32, 24 August 2021 (UTC)