Little Big Man Review

Rather than a martyr, General Custer is portrayed as a vainglorious, "raving lunatic," a shocking reversal of the historical narrative at the time. The Technical Feat

The film was among the first to feature a diverse range of Native characters, including gay Indians and those with mental health struggles, rather than just "noble warriors". Little Big Man

While ostensibly a tall tale about 121-year-old Jack Crabb, (1970) remains one of the most culturally significant films for how it single-handedly demolished the "heroic" myth of the American West. The "Flower Power" Indian Rather than a martyr, General Custer is portrayed

The movie is based on the 1964 novel by Thomas Berger , a satirical picaresque that helped establish the "Revisionist Western" genre in literature. The "Flower Power" Indian The movie is based

Released during the height of the Vietnam War, the film is widely viewed as a protest piece.

Today, the film is preserved in the for its "aesthetic significance" in shifting American historical perspective. Little Big Man - I Review Westerns

To play the ancient Jack Crabb, Dustin Hoffman wore a prosthetic mask that took five hours a day to apply. To achieve the rasping, aged voice, Hoffman reportedly spent hours screaming in his dressing room before filming to "trash" his vocal cords.