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Tribal hand-amputation.


I remember seeing a movie or maybe a mini-series where there's a scene where the chieftain of some native american or asian tribe sits at the head of a table to pass judgement on some errant tribe member, whereupon the chief suddenly brings out a sword and severs the poor mans hand. Anyone else know where this is from?

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Not positive, but...A Man Called Horse?

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No, it was definitely a newer production. 90's-ish.

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I think there's a scene like this in Sense8. Probably in the Kenya storyline.

If that's not it, it would help for you to be more specific.

Is this some kind of period piece or does the story take place in current times? How are people dressed.

Is is specifically Native American or Asian? Or 'something like that'.

Give us all the details you can remember.

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Definitely a period piece. The tribals in the movie were asian or south american with like a goofy looking bowl haircut, but I think the main characters were white. It ended with a big fight, and the villain was dressed in all black. That's all I remember.

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okay... wild stab here...

The haircut makes me think South American. There was a long story line in Da Vinci's Demons that took place in Machu Picchu and one of the European characters wore black a lot and one of the Incan characters was painted black.

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But I can't remember if anyone got their hand cut off in any of those episodes.

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some of this reminds me of "The Mission (1986)", but i do not recall an amputation.

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No, neither of those. The Mission I actually saw a few years ago, and as it started I thought I'd finally found it, but the scene never came. But the tribals in the one I'm looking for looked a lot like the ones in The Mission.

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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) - very early on there is a scene where crusaders are tortured by Turks and a hand is cut off with a sword and a further hand amputation is decreed by judgement. I forget what hair style the Turks have in the film.

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