A Man Called Horse (1970)
Directed by Elliot Silverstein
In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He eventually passes the many necessary tests that will permit him to become a member of the tribe.
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There are echoes in this of Cameron’s “Aliens” (Giovanni Ribisi impresses as the corporate lackey who places profit above life), and of such infiltrator-becomes-an-initiate narratives as “A Man Called Horse,” “Dances with Wolves,” and “The Last Samurai.”
Like his professional debut, it's another transposition to outer space of the western, specifically countercultural films like A Man Called Horse , Little Big Man and Dances With Wolves , in which the white heroes cross over into the American Indian world and take the side of the supposedly primitive people against the supposedly civilised invaders.
If you’ve seen “A Man Called Horse” or “Dances With Wolves” there’s no reason for me to tell you where it goes from here...
I don’t know who I am.? Who he is, of course, is a born-again Injun in the mode of the hero of A Man Called Horse.
Still, the Chieftain Eytucan (Wes Studi) and the Shaman Mo'at (C.C.H. Pounder) are willing to give him a shot, so we get the chance to see Jam-Cam's version of A Man Called Horse, Dances With Wolves and Pocahontas as the Jakenator becomes more and more "one of them"!
The plot to "A Man Called Horse" (or, if you like, "Dances With Wolves") thusly prepped, Jake is able to strike out on his own - narrowly avoiding death in the jungles of Pandora thanks to Na'vi tribe member Neytiri (Zoë Saldana), with whom he quite naturally falls in love.
I can remember attending a double feature of two Richard Harris films, “A Man Called Horse” and “Man in the Wilderness.”