Spent way too many hours making this collage. A compilation of actors/actresses who have made SVU what it is. Can you identify all the actors and their characters? (2nd image shows the black and white of those who have passed on).
Dance Me Outside: an unsolved murder on Northern Ontario’s Kidiabinessee Reservation impacts the mundane lives of two best friends preparing for mechanic school. Both leading men deliver effortless performances as Silas Crow & Frank Fencepost!
On this day in 1972, actor Adam Beach, Anishinaabe, was born. He’s perhaps best known for his role as Victor Joseph in Smoke Signals, but his decades-long career includes many parts in TV shows & movies. He leveraged his success to create a nonprofit in Winnipeg that trains at-risk Native youth in various roles within the film industry! It takes a community to uplift our culture!
Smoke Signals: The Birth of the Modern Native American Cinema
With Killers of the Flower Moon in theatres, now seems like an excellent time to revisit Smoke Signals, the first major studio film written and directed by a Native American. Check out the film and give this review a read!
While a lot of meaningful discourse has been opened by the release of Martin Scorsese’s recent movie Killers of the Flower Moon, one thing has become increasingly concerning about the film, i.e., it will soon become the most visible example of Native American representation in cinema. While the film is certainly sympathetic enough to the Osage characters that inhabit the World created by the…
Harrison Ford, Adam Beach, and Daniel Craig in a scene from Cowboys and Aliens (2011). Robert Downey Jr, who had worked with director Jon Favreau on Iron Man, was set to play Daniel Craig's part, but Robert withdrew because of scheduling conflicts with Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. The character was re-written and Downey was replaced.
"How do we forgive our fathers? Maybe in a dream. Do we forgive our fathers for leaving us too often, or forever, when we were little? Maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage, or making us nervous because there never seemed to be any rage there at all? Do we forgive our fathers for marrying, or not marrying, our mothers? Or divorcing, or not divorcing, our mothers? And shall we forgive them for their excesses of warmth or coldness? Shall we forgive them for pushing, or leaning? For shutting doors or speaking through walls? For never speaking, or never being silent? Do we forgive our fathers in our age, or in theirs? Or in their deaths, saying it to them or not saying it. If we forgive our fathers, what is left?"
Smoke Signals: two children born of flame & ash leave the Coeur d'Alene Reservation to collect the remains of an absent father named Arnold Joseph. Unable to forgive, Victor Joseph reluctantly travels south with Thomas Builds-the-Fire & they gain crucial insight into their shared past!