Comments on: Weekend TV: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2007/05/25/weekend_tv_bury_my_heart_at_wo_1/ A blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:42:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: A http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2007/05/25/weekend_tv_bury_my_heart_at_wo_1/comment-page-1/#comment-6152 A Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:58:50 +0000 http://timetunedin.wordpress.com/?p=498#comment-6152 Why is HBO trying to make Stone Age cavemen who are hunters and gatherers into intelligent human beings? They are akin to today's Muslims in the Middle East. Fourteeth century goat herders. They live in mud huts. American Indians of 1876 and Muslims of today would be considered nearly mentally retarded in the U.S. Come on, what person in the U.S. would welcome the Koran statement of "Take her to her sleeping place and beat her, until death comes to her." For showing any part of her skin or bouncing a tit? Truths are self evident. Why is HBO trying to make Stone Age cavemen who are hunters and gatherers into intelligent human beings? They are akin to today's Muslims in the Middle East. Fourteeth century goat herders. They live in mud huts. American Indians of 1876 and Muslims of today would be considered nearly mentally retarded in the U.S.

Come on, what person in the U.S. would welcome the Koran statement of "Take her to her sleeping place and beat her, until death comes to her." For showing any part of her skin or bouncing a tit?

Truths are self evident.

]]> By: Julio http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2007/05/25/weekend_tv_bury_my_heart_at_wo_1/comment-page-1/#comment-6151 Julio Tue, 29 May 2007 23:44:51 +0000 http://timetunedin.wordpress.com/?p=498#comment-6151 For a list of good TV channels and television around the world, vist <a href="http://www.mediaplanetaria.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mediaplanetaria.com</a> For a list of good TV channels and television around the world, vist http://www.mediaplanetaria.com

]]> By: Johnny Ellis http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2007/05/25/weekend_tv_bury_my_heart_at_wo_1/comment-page-1/#comment-6150 Johnny Ellis Mon, 28 May 2007 22:57:46 +0000 http://timetunedin.wordpress.com/?p=498#comment-6150 The tribal member who killed Sitting Bull did so because Sitting Bull had killed his child as punishment for trying to leave the tribe. The tribal member who killed Sitting Bull did so because Sitting Bull had killed his child as punishment for trying to leave the tribe.

]]> By: G.A. Barbuor http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2007/05/25/weekend_tv_bury_my_heart_at_wo_1/comment-page-1/#comment-6149 G.A. Barbuor Mon, 28 May 2007 06:31:19 +0000 http://timetunedin.wordpress.com/?p=498#comment-6149 Bury my heart at wounded knee was a very good movie. I know the one that played col nelson miles shaum johnston. My name is G.A. Barbuor. E- Mall walkingwolf1@earthlink.net And I hope they will show the movie trail of tears I didn't get to see it. Bury my heart at wounded knee was a very good movie. I know the one that played col nelson miles shaum johnston.
My name is G.A. Barbuor.
E- Mall walkingwolf1@earthlink.net
And I hope they will show the movie trail of tears I didn't get to see it.

]]> By: Raznic http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2007/05/25/weekend_tv_bury_my_heart_at_wo_1/comment-page-1/#comment-6148 Raznic Mon, 28 May 2007 04:40:39 +0000 http://timetunedin.wordpress.com/?p=498#comment-6148 The vistas are wonderful, the camera is in focus, and the costumes and sets are well thought out and, one assumes, quite authentic. Too bad about the plot. And the screenplay. How on earth can you make a 2 hour film about 100 years of history of so many tribes across an entire continent? And to mix the death of Sitting Bull together with Wounded Knee is as if we were to suggest, with similar condescending artistic liberty of course, that there was only one Nazi extermination camp during WW2. Its sad because it was a real opportunity to portray some huge and sad events in our past and to tell them with some accuracy. It ended up like a 1950 cowboy and western. Shame HBO, you know better. The vistas are wonderful, the camera is in focus, and the costumes and sets are well thought out and, one assumes, quite authentic. Too bad about the plot. And the screenplay. How on earth can you make a 2 hour film about 100 years of history of so many tribes across an entire continent? And to mix the death of Sitting Bull together with Wounded Knee is as if we were to suggest, with similar condescending artistic liberty of course, that there was only one Nazi extermination camp during WW2. Its sad because it was a real opportunity to portray some huge and sad events in our past and to tell them with some accuracy. It ended up like a 1950 cowboy and western. Shame HBO, you know better.

]]> By: Raznic http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2007/05/25/weekend_tv_bury_my_heart_at_wo_1/comment-page-1/#comment-6147 Raznic Mon, 28 May 2007 04:39:29 +0000 http://timetunedin.wordpress.com/?p=498#comment-6147 The vistas are wonderful, the camera is in focus, and the costumes and sets are well thought out and one assumes quite authentic. Too bad about the plot. And the screenplay. How on earth can you make a 2 hour film about 100 years of history of so many tribes across an entire continent? And to mix the death of Sitting Bull together with Wounded Knee is as if we were to suggest,with similar condescending artistic liberty of course, that there was only one Nazi extermination camp during WW2. Its sad because it was a real opportunity to portray some huge and sad events in our past and to tell them with some accuracy. It ended up like a 1950 cowboy and western. Shame HBO, you know better. The vistas are wonderful, the camera is in focus, and the costumes and sets are well thought out and one assumes quite authentic. Too bad about the plot. And the screenplay. How on earth can you make a 2 hour film about 100 years of history of so many tribes across an entire continent? And to mix the death of Sitting Bull together with Wounded Knee is as if we were to suggest,with similar condescending artistic liberty of course, that there was only one Nazi extermination camp during WW2. Its sad because it was a real opportunity to portray some huge and sad events in our past and to tell them with some accuracy. It ended up like a 1950 cowboy and western. Shame HBO, you know better.

]]> By: ccharpman http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2007/05/25/weekend_tv_bury_my_heart_at_wo_1/comment-page-1/#comment-6146 ccharpman Mon, 28 May 2007 03:23:12 +0000 http://timetunedin.wordpress.com/?p=498#comment-6146 The acting is strained. The story is way to short for what actually happened. Hollywood always finds a way to include thin women. Few American Indians of age, are thin, ... body or face. Not nearly enough tribal members. Sitting Bull had a large tribe. The tribal leaders speak English way too well. I don't believe that American Indian Chiefs punished their members by whipping them with a whip. Setting Bull had been to Washington D.C. and saw the squalor that the government forced their poor members of their society to beg with cups and live with nothing. Sitting Bull loved his tribal members. He treated them fairly. If a buffalo was killed, all members were able to get the same amount of meat as all other members. One of the actors is from the Anadarko area. Not sure which one. I am watching the movie, right now. Sitting Bull ended up living in the back woods of Canada. The government hired a member of his tribe to track him down and kill him. Sounds a little like our present, president, wouldn't you say? They're going to live the white man's life or else. The drum-beats and singing sounds original. Shoot first and ignore collaboration. Sadly, we do not see enough pow wow's, only hearing THE DRUM beats in the background. Not once do we experience a a real pow wow. search "okharpman" at blogspot.com. The acting is strained. The story is way to short for what actually happened. Hollywood always
finds a way to include thin women. Few
American Indians of age, are thin, ... body
or face.

Not nearly enough tribal members. Sitting Bull
had a large tribe. The tribal leaders speak
English way too well. I don't believe that
American Indian Chiefs punished their members
by whipping them with a whip.

Setting Bull had been to Washington D.C. and saw the squalor that the government forced their poor members of their society to beg with cups and live with nothing. Sitting Bull loved his tribal members. He treated them fairly. If a buffalo was killed, all members were able to get the same amount of meat as all other members.

One of the actors is from the Anadarko area. Not sure which one. I am watching the movie, right now. Sitting Bull ended up living in the back woods of Canada. The government hired a member of his tribe to track him down and kill him.

Sounds a little like our present, president, wouldn't you say? They're going to live the white man's life or else. The drum-beats and singing sounds original. Shoot first and ignore collaboration. Sadly, we do not see enough
pow wow's, only hearing THE DRUM beats in
the background. Not once do we experience a
a real pow wow.

search "okharpman" at blogspot.com.

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