[Quick Summary: An Englishman, adopted as a boy by the Mohicans, fights off French soldiers and a Huron war party.]
SHORT VERSION: It's a fine script for the historical drama it is trying to convey. However, I'm not sure why I wasn't as moved as I'd hoped.
MY FAVORITE LINE: I thought the descriptor of Cora (below) was very accurate in terms of how the men view her.
Also, it shows how Heyward, who wants to marry Cora, was a bad match.
INT. MUNRO'S HEADQUARTERS - CORA - NIGHT
...WIDEN: Heyward, Munro, Cora. We've entered mid-argument. An adjutant comes and goes. Heyward and Munro are sensitive to appearances in front of the adjutant. Cora couldn't give a damn.
...HEYWARD: And who are these colonials to pass judgment on England's policies in her possessions? And come and go without so much as a "by your leave?"
CORA: They do not live their lives "by your leave." (beat) They hack it out of the wilderness with tehir own two hands, burying their dead along the way.
HEYWARD (distant): You are defending him because you've become infatuated with him.
Cora is having her intelligence written off as a hormone attack. [This perfectly describes what the insult feels like.] She contains her fury.
CORA: Duncan, you are a man with a few admirable qualities. But taken as a whole, I was wrong to have thought so highly of you.
Heyward's shot through the heart.
WHAT I'VE LEARNED: Sometimes only a metaphor can describe a feeling.
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)(7/31/90 2nd draft, revised)
by Michael Mann
Adapted by Michael Mann and Christopher Crowe
Based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper and the 1936 screenplay by Philip Dunne
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