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Youth the Same

posted 12 years ago by jwstewartii
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One of the things I liked about this movie was the comment Walking Coyote made about Red Cloud and his buddies: not understanding what the younger generation is up to. The words he used were the same we say today, our parents said about us, etc. It just showed that every generation, every culture, wonders about the next generation and how they will mature.

Overall the movie itself was good. I read earlier posts about Steiger's accent, but really it wasn't that bad. The movie, in my opinion, was the original Dancing with Wolves.

[–] MAGolding (1098) 3 years ago

I just looked up their ages.

Jay C. Flippen (Walking Coyote) was born in 1899 and thus turned 58 in 1957, Frank de Kova (Red Cloud) was born in 1910, 11 years later, and turned 47 in 1957.

Is 11 years age difference enough to make someone seem to be of a younger generation?

I note that Red Cloud (1822-1909) turned 44 in 1866, the year that Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) began. By then he was already a very influential chief of the Ogalla tribe of the Lakota Sioux. So it would have been unusual for even much older Sioux to talk of him like he was a member of the goofy younger generaton, since he was already a member of the generation of middle aged Sioux leaders.