What are the American movies that depict the Indians as savage animal and subhuman? Thanks?

Answer 1

Bad Movies that depict as savage:
Peter Pan
Any old John Wayne movie (one example: The Searchers)
http://members.aol.com/fortscott/mov-list.htm

Bad Movies that are culturally inaccurate:
The New World is culturally inaccurate
Apocolypto
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Pocahontas

Good Movies
Windtalkers
Smoke Signals
Dance Me Outside
Lakota Woman
DreamKeeper
Black Cloud
Whale Rider (New Zealand)
Rabbit Proof Fence (Australia)


Here is a general list of movies with Natives in them, most are probably negative images:
http://library.berkeley.edu/MRC/imagesnatives.html

Here is a list of three movies that talk about stereotype images in the media:
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/ethnicstudies/media_stereotypes.html
(scroll down to Native American)

I'm only given you this information because I assume you are going to try and point out stereotypes and fight them, not to support them.

Answer 2

Savage yes - subhuman not so much they are just protecting their way of life in Last of the Dogmen my fave movie on the subject of Native Americans

All except the silly scene where the old dynamite is sweating nitro yet seems to become magically stable when put into a saddlebag and bounced to high heavens as Berringer gallops away utter nonsense other than that a great flick

Answer 3

Every movie made before it became un-PC to call Native Americans, Indians. Check out John Wayne (the great Westerns).

On another note, ever wondered why this was done?

It's the same motive that the Europeans used to classify the native Africans as ignorant and savage.

It's the same excuse those same Europeans used to classify Asians as unclean, dishonest and uncouth.

Same excuse used again by colonialists to hunt down the native Aborigines in Australia.

Damend same excuse used to wipe out just about every native tribe in this hemisphere.

Very same excuse being used by the "non-imperialist" Americans to classify Arabs as terrorists for defending their own homelands.

It's called greed and thievery. Not a very complicated thing when you look at those actions through the eyes of history.

Somehow it's the "savages" who always end up dead while the sophisticates end up with those savages' land and precious minerals.

Answer 4

Most of the westerns of the 50's/60's painted the savages, oops I mean indians as blood thirsty savages killing innocent women and children...that did happen a lot by the way...they were pretty savage. As General Sherman so famously said; the only good indian is a dead indian...as an aside though that is his famous quote, here is what he clains he actually said; I have never met a good indian who wasn't dead. Subtle difference, but in the latter he did hold out the chance that there may have been a good indian, he had just never met one.

Answer 5

The movie I have viewed as the most savage and subhuman would have to be APOCALYPTO. If you have a chance to see it please do , I am sure you will agree. The whole movie which was done in subtitles was entirely based on subhuman savagery.

Answer 6

Jeremiah Johnson, and anything with John Wayne and Native Americans.

Answer 7

One ought to first look on the context of the note "savage" earlier attempting to respond to this. There are 3 definitions for savage as a noun. (a million) someone belonging to a primitive society (2) a brutal individual (3) a rude or unmannerly individual. Now, considering that we've this information, enable's follow it to community human beings, shall we? in the first definition, sure, they were savages. The Europeans were progressed of their progression. that they had metallic armor, use of gunpowder and progressed engineering skills. The community human beings were nevertheless in the neolithic level of progression. They hadn't even reached their Bronze Age yet. So, sure, compared to the ecu invaders, they belonged to a "primitive" society. in the 2d definition, no, they were no longer savages. truly, by ability of this definition of a brutal individual, the Europeans were the savages. They murdered community human beings, stole their land and wrecked their way of existence. that's exceedingly brutal. in the 0.33 definition, both community human beings and Europeans persons may nicely be seen savages, relying on the attitude of your way of existence as you view them. what's polite in a unmarried way of existence is rude in yet another. As for my personal opinion, i don't experience that "savage" is a perfect thanks to describe a fashion of existence it truly is coming up otherwise. i locate it to be a racist note and am satisfied that society is transferring faraway from its use. So, in short to my (particularly lengthy, sorry about that) answer, i don't experience that community human beings were "savages".

Answer 8

Well Disney just re-released Peter Pan!

Answer 9

ooo, not sure, probably older movies. More recent ones usually depict them as being very helpful, like the movie "windtalkers'

Answer 10

ALL American movies!!!