Not Day Lewis: his Apex is There Will Be Blood, one of the great performances of the last 50 years, though one could argue this is his mainstream Apex. — Bill Simmons
Wes Studi is a yes, 'unfortunately', because he is great in this movie. — Bill Simmons
Jodhi May (transcribed 'Jody May') is a yes, since the speaker does not know what happened to her after this movie. — Bill Simmons
Full-scale tomahawk throws are Apex; no better one comes to mind, and everyone wanted a tomahawk afterward. — Chris Ryan
Talking about yourself in the third person is flagged but judged probably not Apex. — Bill Simmons
Hawkeye's jump into the waterfall is declared Apex Mountain for waterfall jumping, because The Fugitive followed the next year; water-park joke. — Bill Simmons
It is probably Apex Mountain for colonial frontier movies and maybe the best Revolutionary War era movie. — Chris Ryan
A claim that it might be Apex for MTV type of style action set to music is questioned: the other participant sees it as more classical and traditionalist, while granting it is the conclusion of the style begun with Miami Vice and far more modern than Jeremiah Johnson. — Chris Ryan
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
The music is the first answer, emphatically: 'it's the music, it's the music, and then it's the music.' — Bill Simmons
Day Lewis is offered only as 'you could say'; Wes Studi's performance as Magua and the romance are named as aging well too. — Chris Ryan
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. — Chris Ryan
Chingachgook and Uncas are a favorite father-son combo, likened to the speaker and his dad, with a Red Sox joke. — Bill Simmons
The lacrosse game is another pick, with jokes about betting on a round robin. — Bill Simmons
The exchange about going to Kentucky, answered 'face north, turn left, and walk', is praised as good underrated sarcasm. — Bill Simmons
Magua's lines are singled out, including his muttering to the English officer and his vow about the gray hair's heart and seed. — Bill Simmons
Magua's third-person speech is the favorite element, joked as a press-conference habit and a demand to be traded to the Hurons. — Bill Simmons
Studi is so good as Magua that he was hard to see as anyone else for years, including in Heat. — Bill Simmons
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. — Bill Simmons
