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| − | '''Flaming Star''' (1960) stars [[Elvis Presley]] as a half-Indian, half-white man in an area with deadly conflicts between Indians and whites. | + | '''Flaming Star''' (1960) stars [[Elvis Presley]] as Pacer, a half-Indian, half-white man in an area with deadly conflicts between Indians and whites. |
| − | The movie begins with a surprise birthday party for a white man and an Indian raid on a settler's cabin. Then a lone Indian carrying a spear | + | |
| + | The movie begins with a surprise birthday party for a white man and an Indian raid on a settler's cabin. Then a lone Indian carrying a spear appears as evening falls, desiring to talk to Pacer, who refuses any but a daylight meeting. | ||
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| + | The next day the two sons discover the Indian butchery when they visit the store, and a relative of one of the deceased threatens to murder Pacer in retaliation (although the viewer knows he had nothing to do with the raid). Then 8 men visit the house demanding the white son clarify where his loyalty lies. | ||
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| + | After that, Paw and the white son ride off, and two white trappers visit the house begging a meal. When they learn that Pacer and his mother are Indian, they turn arrogant, calling him boy and Red Boy and one making sexual advances towards his mother. | ||
| + | *This scene shows the degenerate side of whites better than anything else: racism combined with a taste for adultery. | ||
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Revision as of 22:43, March 21, 2010
Flaming Star (1960) stars Elvis Presley as Pacer, a half-Indian, half-white man in an area with deadly conflicts between Indians and whites.
The movie begins with a surprise birthday party for a white man and an Indian raid on a settler's cabin. Then a lone Indian carrying a spear appears as evening falls, desiring to talk to Pacer, who refuses any but a daylight meeting.
The next day the two sons discover the Indian butchery when they visit the store, and a relative of one of the deceased threatens to murder Pacer in retaliation (although the viewer knows he had nothing to do with the raid). Then 8 men visit the house demanding the white son clarify where his loyalty lies.
After that, Paw and the white son ride off, and two white trappers visit the house begging a meal. When they learn that Pacer and his mother are Indian, they turn arrogant, calling him boy and Red Boy and one making sexual advances towards his mother.
- This scene shows the degenerate side of whites better than anything else: racism combined with a taste for adultery.