What’s Aged the Best?
The music; Wes Studi as Magua; the romance; British-French stereotyping; Chingachgook and Uncas; the lacrosse game; the Kentucky directions exchange; Magua's third-person dialogue
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- The music is the first answer, emphatically: 'it's the music, it's the music, and then it's the music.'
- Day Lewis is offered only as 'you could say'; Wes Studi's performance as Magua and the romance are named as aging well too.
- The 1750s British-French stereotyping is praised, with a quoted line about Latin voluptuousness and Gallic laziness; a whole series of the two sides fighting would be welcome, though whom to root for is unclear.
- Chingachgook and Uncas are a favorite father-son combo, likened to the speaker and his dad, with a Red Sox joke.
- The lacrosse game is another pick, with jokes about betting on a round robin.
- The exchange about going to Kentucky, answered 'face north, turn left, and walk', is praised as good underrated sarcasm.
- Magua's lines are singled out, including his muttering to the English officer and his vow about the gray hair's heart and seed.
- Magua's third-person speech is the favorite element, joked as a press-conference habit and a demand to be traded to the Hurons.
- Studi is so good as Magua that he was hard to see as anyone else for years, including in Heat.
- Magua is not a pure villain but a man set on revenge; a version from his perspective would be about justice, with jokes about Magua defenders in a player-friendly era.