Saints and Strangers
Nov. 27th, 2015 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxWatched the replay of 'Saints and Strangers' on Nat Geo channel last night. Oddly good cast for parts you wouldn't necessarily think of : Vincent Kartheiser for William Bradford, Office Space dude for the 1st Governor of the Plymouth Colony, True Blood girl as Bradford's Pilgrim wife, Ray Stevenson of Rome as the racist dude who evolves into the one questioning whether it was the slavetaking Brits who are 'the savages' .
The guy playing Squanto got the most interesting part and certainly made him shifty (actually, one of the most entertaining things in the movie was his editing of his translations between the English and the natives.)
It seemed reasonably well balanced (relative to most movies of its ilk), showing the political jockeying of the various native factions and their quite legitimate suspicions of the dangers posed allowing an English settlement in their midst, as well as the tensions between the 'religious cult' separatist Protestants and the 'adventurers' in the colonists, as well as the sense of isolation and lack of communication.
A bit slow, but I mostly enjoyed it
The guy playing Squanto got the most interesting part and certainly made him shifty (actually, one of the most entertaining things in the movie was his editing of his translations between the English and the natives.)
It seemed reasonably well balanced (relative to most movies of its ilk), showing the political jockeying of the various native factions and their quite legitimate suspicions of the dangers posed allowing an English settlement in their midst, as well as the tensions between the 'religious cult' separatist Protestants and the 'adventurers' in the colonists, as well as the sense of isolation and lack of communication.
A bit slow, but I mostly enjoyed it
