![]() ![]() So it’s no wonder they fall in love and get married. She will find her children.Įnter Tommy boy, back from his soul-searching trip and just as bummed about the world as May is. And though a little hope dies each night, she never runs out. She spends all her days thinking about her son and daughter. Talk about a bad day! As a result, May, just like Tom, pulls away from the world and goes on her own spiritual journey. Oops.Īs if that weren’t enough, May’s husband ends up the only man killed on some unrelated soldier brigade. We find out later that this raid was the direct result of Tom telling the Indians that the white man was coming. Things aren’t gonna be happy for long though because an Indian tribe raids May’s village, killing all in sight, and taking with them her two children. This allows us to shift our focus to May, a happy loving mother of two, a boy and a girl. Tom, who we already know has issues, takes this as a sign to go on a spiritual journey. Though many die, Tom and Neighbors make it out okay, only to come home where Neighbors is quickly murdered the next day (for his affiliation with the Indian people). No one knows that the white assassin isn’t affiliated with the white ambassadors, causing the Indians to immediately attack every white man in sight. No sooner is this warning heeded than an assassination attempt on the Indians erupts. They are currently trying to warn a large tribe of Indians that an attack on them by the white man is coming. He travels with Neighbors, a U.S.-Indian ambassador. He seems lost, a little bit out there, a man unsure of his place in the world. Tom, 30s, is a language-translator between the Indians and the white man. All I can say is it’s never good when you’re rereading every sentence twice because your mind keeps drifting. Now whether this has to do with my predisposition to disliking these kinds of movies or the script itself, I couldn’t really tell you. Although there are some exciting moments, films where a bunch of Indians and Americans are shooting at each other seem to blend into a mishmash of cliches for me. Unbound Captives felt a bit like pulling teeth at times. ![]() For that reason, I was willing to give Captives the benefit of the doubt.Īs I trudged through the opening pages, I was starting to feel a lot less benefit and a lot more doubt. ![]() BUT I will say that the one movie I *did* like with Indians was a little movie called Last Of The Mohicans helmed by Director/God Michael Mann, and starring noneother than…you guessed it, Madeleine Stowe, the writer/director of Unbound Captives. For me personally, that just isn’t an interesting time in American history. So when I opened it up and realized the period was……… mid-1800s America and it was about Indians, I was really bummed. Braveheart, Titanic, and then…well, I can’t really think of any (suggestions in the comments section please – and no, I don’t count Galdiator as a good period piece). I feel like we haven’t had a good period piece in a long time. When I heard that Unbound Captives was a “period piece”, I got excited. The movie will star Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, and Hollywood hotshot Robert Pattinson. She turned down what was among the highest sums offered a first-time scribe because there was no promise she would be anything more than screenwriter. Premise: A woman loses her children to a tribe of Indians and lives every day only to see them again.Ībout: Back in 2003, Fox offered Stowe $3 million, and later $5 million, for her script, with Ridley Scott poised to direct and Russell Crowe to star.
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