Talk:The Donner Party (2009 film)

¶ This film is clearly extremely low budget - a scene where an animal is hunted, shot and butchered was done without an animal. The cast was only 13 people although the movie purported to tell the story of a wagon train that started with 87 people. The "surviving" characters look (and are dressed) almost as well at the end of the movie as at the start. (These problems got noticed in a blog devoted to studying the Donner disaster. http://donnerblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/okay-so-i-watched-movie.html). The director did explain later all these flaws were forced by the sudden disappearance of financial backers just as filming was about to commence. (http://donnerblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/director-responds.html) The bulk of the movie is an imagined reconstruction of the events and conversations leading up to cannibalism - but only of two people, one of whom evidently died of illness. Sussmanbern (talk) 00:18, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

You also left out the fact it whitewashed history for a cleaner less savage view of the frontier, leaving out the three times native Americans met the party and were welcome to travel with them, only to repay them by shooting and stealing cattle and supplies leaving the Donner party 100 head of oxen short before the halfway mark of their journey. Agendabender (talk) 23:15, 30 July 2017 (UTC)