The video we watched today in class focused on the portrayal of Native American's in classic Hollywood films. Oftentimes, they were not depicted accurately. For example, the Indians in the movie would all be dressed up like Plains Indians, with the big feather hats. They also said in the movie that the natives would wear headbands in a lot of these movies to keep there wigs on while they are getting attacked in the film.
These depictions of Native American's as being warriors, or very spiritual, have only some elements of truth. They said that a lot of the time these movies would exaggerate these points. Also for kids watching these classic cowboys vs. Indians movies the kids would look at the Indians as the enemy.
These "western" movies are considered the most American of all film genres. I believe this is because it was all about the expansion of this country, and people bought into the patriotism of it. I also think this genre became so popular because it shows the cowboys who are viewed as the good guys, battling and defeating the bad guys or the Indians.
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