Of course, then I watched the trailer and saw him talking about, 'ain't' and whatnot, and pretty much knew that there was absolutely no way he wasn't adopted. I just figured that he heard that Michael Mann was doing a film about Indians and, thinking that it had something to do with 'Ghandi', went down to audition for an expansion on that random Colin kid that he showed up somewhere as, and yet they took him anyways, even if was too white to be a Mohican, because, come on, like any self-respecting filmmaker is going to turn down the chance to work with Daniel Day-Lewis. Well, to be fair, for me to be satisfied, this film would only have to tell me just what in the world a Mohican is, because I was thinking that it was some kind of Native American, until they dropped the name Daniel Day-Lewis, who is about as white as it gets.

Michael Mann couldn't make a movie about a guy uncovering the secrets of a cigarette company on '60 Minutes' without it coming three minutes shy of tacking on a 1 in front of that 60 in the 60 minutes, but hey, this film still stands as pretty enjoyable.

But when the daughters (Madeleine Stowe, Jodhi May) of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, Hawkeye and Uncas must rescue them in the crossfire of a gruesome military conflict of which they wanted no part: the French and Indian War. Summary from Wikipedia.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans - Uncas (Eric Schweig), his father Chingachgook (Russell Means), and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) - live in peace alongside British colonists. During this war, the French often allied themselves with Native American tribes in order to gain an advantage over the British, with unpredictable and often tragic results. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time, and helped establish Cooper as one of the first world-famous American writers.The story takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. Librivox recording of The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper read by Gary W.

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