Watching *The Last of The Mohicans* For the First Time! 

*Sorry y'all! The audio for the movie is lower than normal to avoid copyright because the movie had music throughout and we had to do some editing around it.*

One of the greatest movie endings ever. The soundtrack gets me everytime

At the end, when Chingachgook isn't thankful to be alive, but instead is heartbroken that all the other Mohicans are together and that he is alone.... I cry. Every. Single. Time.

Daniel Day Lewis although retired now is easily one of the top 5 greatest actors of all time. Even his performance in this is absolutely amazing.

The look Uncas gives his father before he runs off to go try to rescue Alice is subtle and beautiful. He’s outnumbered, outgunned and out matched but is personality and honor compels him to go ahead 😢 Edit: My overall point was that Uncas saw rescuing Alice as his right of passage in a way. He wanted to be with her, and he took off ahead of everyone else cause he saw it has his duty to rescue his lady from the dragon. He fought very bravely but failed. And Alice deciding to join him than be captive of Magua is also a powerful moment.

Did you notice Alice has a braid at the end. It is believed Uncas made it for her while they were behind the waterfall. He cared for her.

i love that Magua just gets destroyed in the final fight, no drawn out brawl, no evenly matched fighters, just a one sided battering.

This was a beautiful movie with a perfect soundtrack. Daniel Day Lewis is probably the greatest actor of our lifetime. He's won 3 Oscars. He's gorgeous in this movie. I think the performance that gets overlooked is Wes Studi's portrayal of Magua. He gives a chilling performance here. I enjoyed your reaction to this. It's heartbreaking but it has a powerful ending.

Major Duncan is an interesting character, because he is shown several times not to be a coward. In fact he advocated to die in the fort and not surrender to the French, was shown several times facing down the enemy and ready to defend the women. In the end he even sacrifices himself to be burned alive. His view though is shown to be the classical difference between the Imperial British attitude and the newly emerging American view point. Up until this point in history, the idea of people not being subject to someone was just weird. They play it up a bit but its a really good example of a die hard Empire man, the whole for God, King and Country.

-The movie score is actually 2 different composers. the first composer and the director had creative differences so they brought in another composer. As Kacee said, the soundtrack is gorgeous no matter what had to happen for it to get made. -Daniel Day Lewis is a dedicated method actor and refused to do scenes where he reloaded and fired a musket on the run until he could do it himself without a stunt double. -Chingachgook was the most lethal of all the fighters, even in his old age. He dismantled Magua with relative ease. Magua was dead instant he harmed Uncas, he just didnt know it until he ran into Chingachgook. -Alice, the blonde daughter, is played by the actress who was the ill-fated queen in season 1 of Netflix's "The Witcher", as well as Maggy the Frog in A Game of Thrones.

The sequence at the end of the movie is one of the best ever examples of a score elevating a scene. Pure brilliance, master film making.

Enjoyed your reaction to this underrated classic. Grew up watching this movie again & again as a kid in the 90's. The Cinematography is tremendous & every shot is with natural lighting to bring you more into the 1700's. Director Michael Mann stated the book is a "oversimplification" its written in a way that the American Indian were not competent enough to steward the land, when that wasn't true. Daniel Day Lewis trained with some survivalist & did weapons training for the role. Trained with modern weapons 1st, then they brought him way back with the musket rifles. Wes Studi did a remarkable job playing Magua, a tragic character built up from the turbulent times of the new world. Back in 2017, I flew out to Albuquerque NM to watch LAST OF THE MOHICANS with Wes Studi (Magua) attending the screening. He's been one of my favorite actors growing up & was cool to meet. Wish there was more anniversary screenings of this tremendous movie. Definitely check out GLORY(1989) Directed by Edward Zwick(The Last Samurai)

I really wish they'd kept in some more of Uncas and Alice's scenes. Apparently there was an entire subplot with them too but Mann cut it for time.

I saw this FOUR times in theaters when it came out. Beautifully shot, great script and direction with some terrific performances. Also an amazing score.

This should have won Best Score, Best Cinematography for sure, and possibly even Best Picture! It' just such an epic film! The last 10 minutes alone are incredible!

Magua is one of my all-time favorite villains. Nevermind that Wes Studi is a terrific actor, the character is a great example of what happens when you let justifiable anger consume and control you. His motivations are understandable, but he took it too far; it should have ended with Munroe. That said, I think most people would walk the same road in his position.

30:25, this part always makes me tear up. Uncas knew his body was defeated but his spirit wasn’t. So he stood up one last time.

One of the best films ever made IMO. The acting and soundtrack is just unmatched.

Last of the Mohican’s is a phenomenal movie. It has great “heroic” characters, amazing villains like Magua, & misguided “gray” characters like Duncan who redeems himself beautifully. It’s a brutal but beautiful story with equal parts triumph & tragedy. If you didn’t realize the younger sister Alice was played by Jodhi May. She has done several roles in the fantasy realm of tv show - she was the Witch who gives Cersei her portent of the future in Game of Thrones & she was also Queen Calanthe in The Witcher.

You should absolutely read the book. James Fenmore Cooper was arguably the most important American fiction author of the first half of the 19th century. He was certainly the most famous and the five novels of the Leather stocking series were iconic.

This film was my first delve into adult live action film. My parents took me to see it in theater, and I had zero understanding of the historical, emotional, and cultural impact. But after the film, man,I craved Good film, and spent a large amount of time looking for movies that impacted me at the level of this film, which did end up winning two Academy Awards for its time.

Based on the 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper regarding The French and Indian War, a prior film adaptation starring Randolph Scott was made in 1936. American Indian Movement Activist Russell Means was one of the co-stars.

So, in the scene where Nathanial is trying to get the Huron to release the girls and take him, Duncan is translating this from Nathanial's English to the French the Huron speak. But he's not translating directly. When Nathanial says "Take me!" Duncan DELIBERATLY mistranslates and gives himself up to save Cora, knowing that Nathanial would need to be alive to save the girls from Magua.

The ending is pure poetry.

Arguably the most epic final 10-15 minutes of any movie. The score, scenery, etc is all perfect

Such a gorgeous movie, filmed in the mountains of North Carolina. The first Hunger Games movie was filmed in the same area.

There are NO bad performances in this movie. Everyone brought their "A" game... But, the REAL star of this amazing movie is the SOUNDTRACK. The music, from start to finish, is absolutely, 100%, PERFECT. Also, in a movie with TONS of really great scenes, Johdi May has to have the best scene - and she doesn't say a word. Her expressions, her movements... Yes, I mean her last scene in the movie. Never a better death scene in a movie. Oh, and Major Duncan? Whatever his past bad actions... whatever his flaws as a man... When he volunteered himself to be burned to death? Not just saving Cora, but, saving the man Cora loves instead of him? He was Redeemed... He died a hero.

This film came out in 1991. Disneyland Paris opened in ‘92. Two actors from the movie came over and joined a live dinner spectacle called ‘Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show’. It ran for about 28 years. One of the two was Leon Goodstriker. Appeared in all the battle scenes, but very visible as one of Magua’s henchmen in the end sequence. Lovely chap, played a Native American in the show (he is Canadian), and got promoted to play Chief Sitting Bull. Tries to return regularly for cast member reunions…

Hey Kacee! Love that you did this movie. That being said, not historically accurate. I am a member of the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohican Indians. We are very much still alive. You are correct about New York. Those areas were our homelands before we were forced out. Still, this movie is an excellent choice. Keep up the great reactions!

😍😍 This wonderful film is an underappreciated diamond of world cinematography! Wonderful story, great acting and fantastic music! Thank you for your great reaction! 😍😍

Daniel D Lewis is the best actor i have seen perform he is incradible ! sorry for my bad grammar english isn't my first language XD

One of the greatest period films ever. It doesn't just use the time and place as a setting, but as the bones of the story itself.

While Wes Studi, Magua, eventually got a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, he should have been given it for this role. Certainly the best Indian role in all movie history, and easily within the top 10 Movie "villain''s"

My favorite movie when I was growing up. Watching with my grandpa the first time miss you gramps.

I think the beautiful thing about Alice is that she KNEW she was not a strong woman. We, the viewer, understand that Alice was "weak". She was very young with NO experience in the American frontier. No experience...nothing to help her survive. She finally, in the end, came to terms with the idea that she was a child in a land of monsters. And she would NOT survive whatever her immediate future had in store for her. Alice just decide the day and time all on her own. She was very brave in the very last moments.

Such a good movie, and one of the best music scores in movie history. I also loved that ending, the music, the action, the intensity. Also, watching Magua just get destroyed by Chingachgook was so satisfying after all the horrible shit he had done.

Even though I saw "The Last of the Mihicans" a decade and a half before I saw "Taken," now whenever I hear Daniel Day-Lewis say "No matter what occurs! I will find you!" I can't help thinking "And I will kill you."

"One day there will be no more frontier. And men like you will go too, like the Mohicans. And new people will come, work, struggle. Some will make their life. But once....we were here."

As a 13 year old, I snuck into the theaters and watched this by myself back in 1992. What an experience! The sounds (the muskets were extremely loud), the visuals, the music.

The massacre of Fort William Henry was much worse in reality. The inhabitants of the fort were allowed to leave just as it was depicted, but they were not allowed to carry any ammunition. Imagine that scene, but the soldiers have no bullets... even more brutal!

despite this being a generally grea movie... the soundtrack catapults this on a next level. its over 30 years and its still my favorite soundtrack of all time.

From a historical standpoint The Last of the Mohicans plays real loose with the real historical events that occurred during the French and Indian War. However it is very historically authentic on how it represents that era and place in time. It seriously understates just how brutally violent frontier warfare was in North America.

Alice leaps, reconciled, and plummets earthward without a sound.

The score for this movie, especially the last 10 minutes, is legendary.

It is a series of 5 books collectively called THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES written by James Fenimore Cooper. Read them in order as they are serialized' 1. The Deerslayer 2. The last of the Mohicans 3. The Pathfinder 4. The Pioneers 5. The Prairie Natty Bumpo, aka Leatherstocking, the Pathfinder, the Trapper, and to the indians - Deerslayer, La Longue Carabine, Hawkeye, follows the westward migration of our history. In the end, as an old man, he dies on the plains. In the book, Cora is mullatto, a product of her father's service in the Carribean. AND, Nathaniel Poe ( Natty Bumpo in the book) is not in love with anyone, Maj. Heyward is in love with Alice, and Uncas is in love with Cora.

The last seven minutes of this movie is cinema genius

7:25 That burned out cabin they came across is the same one they visited earlier in the movie. Those were the bodies of their dearest friends.

The music has become classic, through the decades since the movie’s release.

Great writing. Great acting. Great cinematography. All-time score. This is a top ten film for me. This is what Braveheart and The Patriot could only hope to be.

A great American story. Some Natives supported France others supported England. My colonial ancestors had to fight Native Americans, one boy being the sole survivor of his family in 1675 ... and two European girls raised by the Native Americans as Natives in the mid 18th century may have become my ancestors too. Life or death!

There is a lot more than what is being taught to children now about those times. It's far more complicated than the simplistic framework most people think about now. Be wary of those who rewrite history for political activism.

The final scenes were filmed at Chimney Rock State Park just outside of Asheville, NC. I'm biased as an easterner, but it's one of the most beautiful places in the USA. The west is awesome for its majesty all, but this part of the Smokies/Appalachia is just stunning.

FILMED ALL OVER MY BACKYARD. THE APPALACHIAN HILLS. GOODTIMES.

The British had Native American allies in this war, most notably the Mohawk of the Iroquois Confederacy, but about 85% of Native Americans allied with France.

It makes it even more sad, when the girl commits suicide, then 5 minutes later she would have been saved.

I was a kid when this came out but I am the youngest so I watched a lot of movies with some “close your eyes” moments. I thought DDL was hot when I was a kid, but even more so now that i’m an adult. This movie is beautiful. And heartbreaking.

Magua is rather terrifying. His coldness is complete.

24:18 - in the book, Magua was even more sadistic toward Monroe. He was going to send Alice to her father and keep Kora as a wife. He said he wanted Monroe to live knowing that Magua can kill his heart (Kora) at any moment.

In case you dont recognize her, Alice, the blonde girl, is the same actress for Queen Calanthe in the Witcher netlfix series.

6:40 I watched this movie so many times and this is tje first time I notice this. She took the pistol that only has one bullet inside and no extra ammo, not for defense but for herself. She doesn't want to be taken alive.

Magua in Portuguese means “bitterness towards someone”, a very fitting name for the character.

One of the best 90s movies! Great reaction Kacee! The soundtrack in this movie is legendary!

Duncan is one of those tragic characters that honestly believes what he's doing is right, even when he's wrong. But that final shared moment with Hawkeye remains one of my favorite character moments of all time - not single line of dialogue and he completes an entire character arc. Brilliant acting.

Duncan is a great example of that friend who is is over sensitive and complains too much but their life but is fearless under pressure and will always risk the biscuit for someone they care about.

Also one of the best soundtracks ever!! 😊😊

she said "Just around the river-bend" lmaoooo that was perfectly timed & absolutely hilarious given the similarity of the 2 movies! wow!

People always liked the Hawkeye/Cora love story but I liked Uncas/Alice love story better.

One of my top 10 fave all time movies; everything perfetc imo; soundtrack itself being one of the finest in cinema I've heard. Big Daniel Day Lewis fan, this and The Boxer being my faves from him. Madeleine Stowe I always loved, this and Unlawful Entry my top 2 with her. May want to try Unlawful Entry, a forgotten great little thriller wit hHer, Kurt Russell and Ray Liota.

Hey, Kacee! This is my second favorite film of all time! Michael Mann's direction is kinetic and immersive. His compositions are painterly. Dante Spinotti's cinematography is atmospheric and lush using mostly natural light sources. The score by Trevor Jones is rousing and sweeping. The screenplay by Mann himself and Christopher Crowe bristles with authenticity, intelligence and ferocity! The action is phenomenal and inventive including a canoe chase! The period detail is assiduous. Colonial America feels rough-hewn and primeval. The chemistry between Madeleine Stowe and Daniel Day-Lewis is electric! The cast is uniformly excellent. Chingachgook, played by Native American activist Russell Means, has a terrific speech at the end of the Director's Cut where he laments being the last of his tribe. He goes on to say that one day his white son, Nathaniel, will also be the last of his kind, a frontiersman, as civilization pushes westward bending the natural world to its will. This is based on James Fenimore Cooper's frontier classic "The Last of the Mohicans" written in 1826 but bears little resemblance to the details of the novel. Cooper wrote a pentalogy of stories about Day-Lewis' character, Nathaniel Bumppo, who went by several names including Deerslayer, Hawkeye, La Longue Carabine, Pathfinder, Leatherstocking and The Trapper. The stories chronicle his life from 1740-1806. "Mohicans" is the second tale chronologically. The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the first global war, The Seven Years' War, from 1756-1763. Battles raged in Eastern colonial North America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Trans-Atlantic and the Far East between England, France, Spain and Prussia. George Washington's military exploits occurred in this war which is one of the reasons he was chosen to lead the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The attack on Fort William Henry and the ensuing massacre are real events. The callous and condescending treatment of the colonials by the British officers show the first stirrings of colonial resentment of the British crown which would ultimately erupt in The Revolutionary War. "Justice...if that is justice, then the sooner French guns blow the English army out of America, the better it will be for the people here!" "Cora, you do not know what you are saying!" "I know exactly what I'm saying! And, if it is sedition, then I am guilty of sedition, too!" Native American tribes in North America allied with different colonial powers. Magua is able to infiltrate the British ranks as a guide because the Brits can't tell the indigenous tribes apart. French General Montcalm, a real historical figure, made it a point to acculturate himself to his indigenous allies and show respect to their people in order to secure a loyal bond. Nathaniel advised Cora to remain close to her father and the British officers because the French officers would afford them protection as fellow aristocrats. The enlisted man was considered an unwashed peasant good for cannon fodder. Lol.

If you like movies that really put you into the time period, I recommend several Russell Crowe films. Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World (sea movie set in early 19th century) and LA Confidential (mystery action thriller set in 1950s LA). Both are super immersive in their look and music and both are extremely excellent films.

I can't wait for "The First of the Mohicans" prequel.

Wes Studi, the actor playing Magua, is also in "Dances With Wolves" (1990) and "Heat" (1995)

This is like one of my favourite movies of all time. The imagery and realistic portrayal of the time....OMG such a beautiful movie and the soundtrack has to be one of the best ever written....It really puts you in the moment

Alice, the younger Monroe sister, is also Queen Calanthe in the Witcher.

Excellent movie and your reaction, that last scene with Alice was the basis of the legend "lovers leap".

that's eerie she looks like Alice Munro

I was blown away by the action sequences and the landscape scenery when I first saw this

The soundtrack of this is superb

One of my favorite Michael Mann films

Alice just gave up all hope up of ever being saved after Uncas being killed (plus her father, etc before that), and realizing the rest of her life would of been as a slave, being raped over & over, etc.

This movie is a masterpiece, historically accurate. The music and then scenes are unforgettable. Over 40 years later, and its still stunningly beautiful.

I was sad when Jodhi May, as Alice Monroe, threw herself off a cliff when I first saw the movie in theatres. It was nice to see her again years later in a bigger role in "The Witcher," in the role of the fearsome Queen Calanthe. Alas (SPOILERS!!!), Jodhi May threw herself this time out of a window.

This is in my top 5 favorite movies ever. So epic. The history, the acting, the music, the story, Daniel Day, the villain..... sooo good.

The soundtrack is so amazing, especially that last 20 minutes.

Last year we met some friends in Lake George, NY, the location of Fort William Henry. There's a recreation of the original fort there that's a museum now. Super interesting to hear the history of the area and the stories of the early colonists and pioneers.

I wish they left in his longer speech at the end, it was really good.

Say what you want about poor Duncan but the guy had honour and was brave.

Yess I absolutely love this movie, from the cinematography, music to the cast it's a great movie.

My high school history teacher was in this movie. He told us some crazy stories of the filming.

Interesting that you saw Lincoln in High School. I saw this, Last of the Mohicans, my junior year. I fell in love with the movie. The cinematography, soundtrack, acting, story... all top tier. I'm glad you got to see it and I hope you eventually read the book. If you like the 1700s you might like the movie "Plunkett and Macleane." It is a little hard core compared to LotM but I think both of you will have fun watching it. Plunkett and Macleane doesn't get enough attention for being such a cool movie.

That climax is definitely one of my favorite scenes in film. Great reaction!

Archeologists found the remnants of the British soldiers who were massacred by the Hurons not too long ago (buttons and some other bits of metal, mostly)---all left over from 1757. Yeah, that really happened. I live in the Hudson Valley. The house next to me is from 1709. The Mahicans lived in what is now my back yard. All that really happened here, when it was the wild frontier.

I live 2-3 hours from everywhere this movie was filmed. It's the most beautiful part of the world I've ever been to.

The score of The Last of The Mohicans is one of my favs. The movie is in my top 10 fav movies as well.

As Americans we often think of the frontier solely in terms of the west, but the eastern part of this country, all the way to the Atlantic seacoast, experienced it's own day as the frontier, and it was every bit as brutal and as beautiful as the west's. I recently read about the Salem witch trials and in the late 17th century, that was the frontier -fights between the English and the natives in what is today Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont.

A materpiece of movie of all time. No corny shots true raw emotion of a dad that would do anything for his son. And out of true love.

The mountainside scene at the end was filmed at Chimney Rock in North Carolina, and it's just as impressive in person as it is on film. For the public, there are safety fences along the trail, but I was able to go to the location of almost every shot in the sequence.

One of my favourite film. I studied history because this film!

First time looking at you're channel. Thank you for watching my favorite movie of all time! Everytime I watch it, I catch something new

Duncan's sacrifice is such an impactful redemption arch.