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Buffalo Bill And The Indians – An Analysis (Part 5/5)
The film now moves into its final and the most glorious set piece. What, in a lesser film, could have been simply an exercise in liberal white guilt is elevated into the realm of the unreal and the...
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Buffalo Bill And The Indians – An Analysis (Part 4/5)
An L-cut to an elaborate set piece. It’s an after-show party for the president. The scene opens with the painting of Bill/Custer. Cleveland is greeting the performers. We see that the room is also...
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Buffalo Bill And The Indians – An Analysis (Part 3/5)
There’s an interlude here with Lucille, the Coloratura, where Bill apologizes for possible being a disappointment the previous night. There’s a clear parallel between Bill’s professional trajectory, in...
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Buffalo Bill And The Indians – An Analysis (Part 2/5)
A group of Indians enter the Mayflower campus as the narrator informs us that “The great chief of the Sioux tribe Sitting Bull, is here with us. And he’ll be in the same arena with the noblest white...
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Buffalo Bill And The Indians – An Analysis (Part 1/5)
“Art is not the reflection of a reality; it is the reality of that reflection.” - La Chinoise (1967, Jean Luc-Godard) “In a violent and contemporary period of history, it is myth that invades cinema...
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