Watching "The Last of the Mohicans," I could not get it out of my mind.
"Black Robe" did not involve me in its story, but its visual picture of life in those days has stayed with me. This was a long and depressing film by Bruce Beresford, who went to great pains to recreate the actual living conditions in North America at the time of his story: the architectural details of the Indian dwellings, their methods of hunting and food procurement, the way they used absolute cooperation and trust of each other as a weapon against the deadly climate.
I am the first to confess I know little about how people really lived in the first decades of the European settlement of North America, but while I was watching "The Last of the Mohicans," I was haunted by memories of another movie - " Black Robe" (1991), set in the earliest days of the French settlement of Quebec. DeMille used to churn out, as if he had created a brand new world from scratch, like God. Much has been made about how authentic "The Last of the Mohicans" is, about how the cast learned wilderness survival skills and how every bow, arrow, canoe and moccasin was constructed according to the ancient ways.
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