Last of the Mohicans - last 30 minutes

Mann didn't have a miss for like 30 years. Absolute powerhouse of a director and one of the best to ever do it, without question.

Thief
Miami Vice (TV)
Manhunter
Mohicans
Heat
The Insider
Collateral
Miami Vice

You are not wrong. And let me add, this little piece of magic, the ambush scene.



Greyhair, before you die, know that I will put under the knife your children and so that I wipe your seed from the earth forever.

Maqua portrayed by :

The Last of the Mohicans (1920 American film) - Wallace Beery
The Last of the Mohicans (1932 serial) - Bob Kortman
The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film) - Bruce Cabot
Last of the Redskins (1947 film) - Buster Crabbe
The Last of the Mohicans (1971 TV serial) - Philip Madoc
Last of the Mohicans (1977 TV film) - Robert Tessier
The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film) - Wes Studi

Probably time for a new movie with a new Maqua

That baws weapon was badass

From the time Long Carrabine is talking to the Tribal chief and the music kicks up, then they start to burn Gordon… shite give me chill bumps. Amazing.

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Never could figure out what weapon Chingachgook was using but it was badass when he killed Magua with it and that subtle shaking of the head as he did it.

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It's called a gunstock war club

Wiki article

I fell in love with widescreen movies after renting this on VHS in the widescreen format.

It's all awesome. One of my favorites of all time.

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Michael Mann's epos, located in the colonial war, about the last representive of the Mohicans, who get involved in the war, had some trouble during its production. Director Mann is a perfectionist, that's why some scenes had to be shot up to 20 times. The budget was completely overdrawn and the start in theaters had to be postponed, because Mann cut a version with a running time of almost 3 hrs. So FOX forced Mann to recut it and reach a running time of almost 2 hrs. As a matter of fact, Mann never agreed with this version, that's why he got permission to release "his" DC on DVD

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In october 2010, the film was released on Blu-ray for the first time ever. Mann did also conduct some almost unnoticeable changes to Heat for its Blu-release but that’s no comparison to his work on The Last Mohican. Here, he made way more changes with more impact on the film.
After all these years, Mann sat down in the editing room once more and did the third cut of his film. This Director’s Definitive Cut (to which I will refer as DDC from now on) is clearly more rooted in the theatrical cut (TC) and can be described as a mixture between the TC and the old DC. Here are many differences that do also exist between the TC and the old Director’s Cut. The DDC mostly restores changes back to the way they were in the TC or keeps the extensions Mann made for the normal DC. This leads up to a runtime which is only approximately 2 minutes shorter than the old DC. The DDC-exclusive changes aren’t of much importance and do not have a major impact on the film since they mostly include inserted shots or other minor bits and pieces. In order to clarify the changes and differences which come along with the new DDC, a red marking was used.

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The third and final paragraph is at the link. It's a cool site and deserves the traffic.

Comparison from moviecensorship.com

If you ever felt like there were scenes missing or longer this is an interesting read. A little different than most director cuts versus theatrical