Talk:Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer

Clean-up
The "Films" section is very messy, particularly in the lower sections, so I put a clean-up request tag on it. It just needs to be formatted better. Rychach (talk) 20:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

No "Major Dundee"
The suggestion keeps appearing on the web that Peckinpah and Heston intended the character of Dundee to be based on or related to Custer - but these suggestions appear in articles utterly without substantiation or sourcing.

This is an extremely dubious claim. Heston and Peckinpah were both great readers, especially fascinated with the history of the western expansion. Considering that there is virtually nothing - I reiterate, nothing - in the character or actions of Amos Dundee that remotely resembles any aspect of the historical (or even the Hollywood) Custer - it is highly unlikely that either of the two would distort any representation so completely, and any such references as this need to be elided until proper substantiation can be provided. Sensei48 (talk) 09:39, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Fort Apache
For two years, this reference has been troublesome. Clearly, John Ford wanted to draw a parallel between Col. Thursday and GAC. However, Ford's intent and the extent of the parallel have been distorted in the previous edit. The similarities are vague at best, and film depicts a clear verbal confrontation and agreement to do battle between the Apaches and the cavalry; Thursday's "last stand" troop consists of about 20 soldiers, not hundreds; the Apaches create a deliberate ambush of the cavalry with no similarity to LBH; the John Wayne character inherits Thursday's mantle (and head gear) and affirms the value and worth of "the regiment." All of this indicates that Ford utilized fragments of the GAC/LBH history to make a very different and pro-military point that the previous edit ignored. Nothing wrong with what Ford was doing in this classic film - but the previous edit stretched itself to great lengths to make parallels to Custer that do not in fact exist. I have reduced the edit to the only clear parallels that actually occur in the film.

Gary Larson's Far Side
He's a recurring character in the Far Side cartoons. 68.175.94.200 (talk) 01:25, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

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