Most Rewatchable Scene
Final cliff showdown ending with Chingachgook killing Magua
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- The episode notes include an ambush and then a second ambush; two ambushes in one movie, like multiple Gladiator fights, signal the right pick.
- First ambush, about 20 minutes in: Magua mutters under his breath, walks to the back of the column, and a British soldier who greets him is tomahawked.
- The ambush includes a scalping and Chingachgook's thrown tomahawk as Hawkeye and his two companions upend it, with confusion over whether Russell Means plays Uncas or Chingachgook.
- The argument where the English do not believe Hawkeye yields 'Someday I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement'; the hosts say the line was cut from the first version and restored in a later director's cut, one of three versions Mann has made.
- Hawkeye pulling Cora away for the first kiss is praised for the building music.
- A joke proposes a Vegas trance remix of the love theme after quarantine. — Chris Ryan
- A joke about playing the theme during a spousal argument over the unclean sink while watching basketball in the bubble.
- Second ambush: Magua cuts out the colonel's heart and vows to wipe out his seed, joked as excessive trash talk; the act is not shown, and Mann is joked to be saving the footage.
- The waterfall scene's 'Stay alive, no matter what occurs. I will find you' is great stuff; anyone unmoved is a replicant, Duncan concedes he cannot compete, and the moment was in the summer 1992 trailer.
- Magua presents the two women to the Sachem; Hawkeye walks in unarmed and takes blows; the Sachem's line about the white man is called a good quote, and the trade is narrated in NBA trade terms with Duncan offering himself.
- That Sachem scene would be a favorite if not for the ending; older Sachem-type characters are 'always a home run'.
- The film conveys the era efficiently, such as settlers insisting on defending their homes, described as an early American revolutionary spirit.
- The cliff sequence: Uncas loses to Magua, his father runs in slow motion, and the music and images are called as overwhelming as Heat's bank robbery; the scene was watched about five times the night before.
- Alice looks at Magua and steps off the cliff as Cora rounds the corner; the sisters go from a tea set in a meadow to giving themselves to the wild, and are game throughout, with Cora becoming a nurse.
- A Madeleine Stowe tangent covers her Revenge and Stakeout run and her filmography, with Playing by Heart defended.
- In the last scene Hawkeye and Chingachgook clean house; the wide shot of Magua and Chingachgook on the rock and the final 360 tomahawk swing are called one of the coolest shots seen in a theater.
- That final scene is named as the most rewatchable pick, and the other participant goes with it as well.
- Honorable mention: Hawkeye covering the courier from the fort wall; the courier is called the worst job in colonial America and the 'Postmates of 1757'.