Okla-homey
1/29/2006, 01:41 PM
Mrs Homey and I attended a screening of "The New World" last night. It stars Colin Farrel as Captain John Smith who showed no ill effects from his alleged addiction to prescription pain meds. It also features OUr fellow Okie Wes Studi as a completely believeable and intensely played Aligonquin war chief.
The role of Pocahontas was stunningly played by 15 year old Q'orianka Kilcher.
This film won't be for everyone; it is light on dialogue and requires the audience to think, but we enjoyed it immensely. I believe it also accurately depicted the texture and substance of early 17th century English life and set up a remarkably compelling juxtaposition of that society and the indian culture it supplanted here in the New World.
Additionally, it is a captivatingly beautiful film. The scenery is incredible and pays homage to the primordial purity of our eastern seaboard as discovered by the first Europeans to arrive in the Virginia tidewater region.
The film is at times violent, but not gratuitously so. There is no profanity and no sex or nudity. In short, you could take your grandmother to see this movie without embarrasment. Therefore, it will probably completely tank.
Take a chance. Go see it.
http://www.thenewworldmovie.com/
The role of Pocahontas was stunningly played by 15 year old Q'orianka Kilcher.
This film won't be for everyone; it is light on dialogue and requires the audience to think, but we enjoyed it immensely. I believe it also accurately depicted the texture and substance of early 17th century English life and set up a remarkably compelling juxtaposition of that society and the indian culture it supplanted here in the New World.
Additionally, it is a captivatingly beautiful film. The scenery is incredible and pays homage to the primordial purity of our eastern seaboard as discovered by the first Europeans to arrive in the Virginia tidewater region.
The film is at times violent, but not gratuitously so. There is no profanity and no sex or nudity. In short, you could take your grandmother to see this movie without embarrasment. Therefore, it will probably completely tank.
Take a chance. Go see it.
http://www.thenewworldmovie.com/