tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post6035840816992204028..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Indians at the 2009 OscarsRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-46351859438891709382009-03-02T14:49:00.000-08:002009-03-02T14:49:00.000-08:00I presume Jackman didn't use the words "Indian ter...I presume Jackman didn't use the words "Indian territory" because he was quoting Truffaut. As for why Truffaut didn't mention Indians, perhaps he was speaking to John Ford fans who understood what he meant. Or perhaps he was speaking to a liberal crowd that wouldn't have appreciated an anti-Indian slur.<BR/><BR/>Why do people ever say things obliquely? Because if they said things bluntly, they'd get criticized for it. Ambiguous statements let people insinuate things without taking responsibility for them.<BR/><BR/>Hence you have McCain calling Obama "that one." Or Palin calling her supporters "good Americans." When people use coded language, it's up to us to decode it.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-70571180757222261472009-02-26T19:26:00.000-08:002009-02-26T19:26:00.000-08:00"I know outlaws also attacked stagecoaches. I beli..."I know outlaws also attacked stagecoaches. I believe they did it much more often than Indians did."<BR/><BR/>Personally when I think of a stagecoach attack an outlaw raid comes to mind but that's just me.<BR/><BR/>"But Truffaut was a John Ford fan and probably loved Stagecoach, which features an Indian attack."<BR/><BR/>That isn't exactly hard proof of an anti-Indian bias.<BR/><BR/>"Therefore, I suspect he meant to implicate Indians."<BR/><BR/>Then why didn't he use the words 'Indian territory'? Or at least 'a stagecoach ride through savage country' or something like that?<BR/><BR/>"Besides, Jackman was speaking about movies to moviemaking professionals. It would surprise me if they didn't connect his comments with the most famous stagecoach ride in cinematic history."<BR/><BR/>True but my point is that it's too much of a subjective comment to be called an anti-Indian remark.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-21672876579698415552009-02-26T13:20:00.000-08:002009-02-26T13:20:00.000-08:00A quote about what people think in general about I...A quote about what people think in general about Indians:<BR/><BR/>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/oakley/peopleevents/e_show.html<BR/><BR/>[The Wild West] show's depictions of Indians reinforced an inaccurate notion held by white Americans. In Cody's Wild West, the Indians were always the aggressors; attacking wagon trains, settlers' cabins, and Custer's forces. The reality was quite different; attacks on settlers' wagons had been quite rare, and it was the whites who kept breaking treaties with the Indians, not the other way around.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-32183420688423845582009-02-26T13:17:00.000-08:002009-02-26T13:17:00.000-08:00I know outlaws also attacked stagecoaches. I beli...I know outlaws also attacked stagecoaches. I believe they did it much more often than Indians did.<BR/><BR/>But Truffaut was a John Ford fan and probably loved <I>Stagecoach</I>, which features an Indian attack. Therefore, I suspect he meant to implicate Indians.<BR/><BR/>Besides, Jackman was speaking about movies to moviemaking professionals. It would surprise me if they didn't connect his comments with the most famous stagecoach ride in cinematic history.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-1106221659992695512009-02-24T22:15:00.000-08:002009-02-24T22:15:00.000-08:00" But no one thinks twice about labeling the "Wild..." But no one thinks twice about labeling the "Wild West" a dangerous place. Because we all "know" it was inhabited by murderous Indians. We know it because we saw it in Oscar-winning movies like Stagecoach."<BR/><BR/>Not necessarily; stagecoaches were also attacked and robbed by outlaws, so it wasn't an anti-Indian joke. Now if I had used the words 'take a ride through Indian territory' then yeah I'd agree with you.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06842875589383922334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-11948623835185551282009-02-23T15:51:00.000-08:002009-02-23T15:51:00.000-08:00""Francois Truffaut once likened a production of a...""Francois Truffaut once likened a production of a movie to taking a drive through Detroit. At first, he said, you hope for a nice ride. And then you just hope to reach your destination."<BR/><BR/>Michigan would have loved the shout-out. We sell T shirts with slogans like "I'm so bad I vacation in Detroit".dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.com